Drone video recorded in Keaton Seaside, Florida, exhibits houses that had been severely broken and destroyed after Hurricane Idalia made landfall early Wednesday morning with winds of 125 mph.
KEATON BEACH, Fla. – Visuals from Keaton Seaside, Florida close to the place Hurricane Idalia made a historic landfall Wednesday present the damages from the storm’s highly effective 125 mph winds and catastrophic storm surge.
Drone video shot by Brian Emfinger with Dwell Storm Media exhibits a house was utterly torn aside by Idalia’s lashing winds in Keaton Seaside close to Perry, Florida.
Winds ripped down powerlines and pulled roofing clear off of houses on the Nature Coast, the video exhibits.
An 83 mph gust was recorded at a climate station in Keaton Seaside about quarter-hour earlier than the 7:45 a.m. landfall.
A display screen shot of damages in Keaton Seaside, Florida after Hurricane Idalia’s landfall on Aug. 30, 2023. (Picture: Brian Emfinger/LSM)
(FOX Climate)
Damages had been additionally reported in Steinhatchee, Perry and Tallahassee as Idalia continued transferring northeast throughout Florida towards Valdosta, Georgia on Wednesday.
Idalia introduced an unprecedented storm surge to Florida’s Large Bend.
SCENES OF HURRICANE IDALIA’S DESTRUCTION AS STORM BLASTS REGION WITH 125 MPH WINDS
A water gauge in Cedar Key stopped reporting at 6.89 toes. The Nationwide Hurricane Heart was forecasting practically 10 toes of storm surge previous to landfall.
Dramatic video exhibits an enormous storm surge and main flooding as Hurricane Idalia made landfall in Keaton Seaside, Florida, early Wednesday morning with winds of 125 mph.
The FOX Forecast Heart stated as a Class 3 storm at landfall, Idalia was the strongest hurricane to strike the Large Bend space – particularly close to Cedar Key – in 125 years, courting again to an unnamed 1896 storm.
