LIVE: Latest forecast tracker as Nicole makes landfall in Florida as a rare November hurricane. The storm has caused widespread power outages and warnings of potentially life-threatening storm surge.
It’s a rarity as only two hurricanes have made landfall in the state in November since the start of record keeping: Hurricane Yankee in 1935 and Hurricane Kate in 1985, according toIn the wake of Nicole’s impact, “multiple” coastal homes in Wilbur-by-the-Sea, an unincorporated beachfront community, collapsed and “several other properties are at imminent risk," the
Nicole is forecast to bring a dangerous storm surge along parts of the east-central and the northeastern coasts of Florida, as well as portions of coastal Georgia and the Florida Big Bend along the Gulf coast, the hurricane center warned.Hurricane warnings had covered Florida’s coast from Boca Raton to the county line between Flagler and Volusia counties, northeast of Orlando, in advance of the storm’s landfall.
“You do have downed trees, you have power lines, you have some road washouts, combined winds and storm surge, we’ve seen beach erosion — especially in areas that had already seen erosion from Hurricane Ian, and these are places like Brevard, Volusia, Flagler and St. Johns counties,” DeSantis said.He said though the storm isn’t as strong as Ian was, he expanded the initial state of emergency declaration for 45 counties to cover all of them.
As of 10 a.m. a tropical storm warning has been discontinued along the Florida west coast, south of Englewood, and the Florida east coast, south of Sebastian Inlet. Evacuations were ordered for two zones of Nassau County, Florida, a region near the Georgia border above Jacksonville, on Wednesday evening due to sustained tropical storm force winds, expected through Friday morning, and dangerous marine conditions.In St. Lucie County, bridges to the barrier island were set to be closed Wednesday, although people wanting to leave would be allowed, officials said. Bridges in Daytona Beach were also closed.
“We haven’t even had any rain yet. So we’re really concerned about the amount of flooding that we’re going to see in the eastern part of the county,” he said at a news conference Wednesday.
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