Tag: Hurricane Irma
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Peter SchorschSeptember 9, 2017
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Catastrophic, life-threatening, extremely dangerous. Scary? Forecasters hope so. The National Weather Service are using as fearful words as they can, on purpose, to warn people about Hurricane Irma and shock them into action, just as they did last month for Hurricane Harvey. “Words like catastrophic, get out, life-threatening, hopefully it will sink in,” said National […]

Jim RosicaSeptember 8, 2017
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With tropical storm-force winds less than 24 hours away, Hurricane Irma also is expected to bring storm surge of 6-12 feet to the state’s southern coasts, Gov. Rick Scott said Friday night. “Our state has never seen anything like this before,” he said. The governor spoke at an evening news briefing from the state’s Emergency Operations Center […]

Bill RuftySeptember 8, 2017
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As Floridians flee from Hurricane Irma or hunker down and await her arrival U.S. Rep. Dennis Ross, a Lakeland Republican, joined the crew of “Kermit,” a Lockheed WP-3D Orion turboprop hurricane hunter aircraft to meet her Friday. Reached at his home just an hour after what he called an amazing four trips through the eye […]

A.G. GancarskiSeptember 8, 2017
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Rep. Al Lawson‘s Congressional District 5 sprawls from Tallahassee to Jacksonville, and a common thread in much of his district is food scarcity. If Hurricane Irma makes landfall as expected, food scarcity issues could be a reality for many Floridians; Lawson, a member of the House Agricultural Committee, asserted Friday that Florida should “petition the U.S. […]

A.G. GancarskiSeptember 8, 2017
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Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, appearing on MSNBC Friday afternoon, had some praise for President Donald Trump‘s handling of hurricane preparation. Bush, who saw eight storms during one two-year period in his tenure, noted that Irma is “bigger and meaner” than anything he dealt with before. On Friday, he expressed confidence in the Trump Administration’s handling of the […]


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