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A.G. GancarskiOctober 11, 2016

Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry is going to address the Jacksonville City Council Tuesday on hurricane damage and recovery. He will have no shortage of subject matter, as hurricane mitigation and recovery has been the signature test of his administration so far. After Hurricane Matthew’s impact on Jacksonville, there are known knowns and known unknowns. A known […]

A.G. GancarskiOctober 10, 2016

The First Coast Relief Fund has half a million dollars to start, but the smart money says that it will have much more than that in the end. The fund begins with $500,000 in seed money from the Jessie Ball duPont Fund, and is a collaboration between the United Way of Northeast Florida, the United Way of St. […]

A.G. GancarskiOctober 10, 2016

What a difference a week makes. Last week in Jacksonville’s City Hall, a state of emergency was declared, ahead of the onslaught of Hurricane Matthew. This week, the council will get back to business. A key part of that business: Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry offering a damage assessment and a recap of recovery efforts after the […]

A.G. GancarskiOctober 9, 2016

On Sunday, Governor Rick Scott toured damage caused by Hurricane Matthew in Jacksonville Beach. Scott, who has been adamant that President Obama expand his disaster declaration issued on Saturday, reiterated his desire to have that done. “We all pay our taxes,” the governor said, and “we ought to get reimbursed.” Meanwhile, the governor otherwise focused on the […]

A.G. GancarskiOctober 8, 2016

Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry briefed media Saturday morning on the catastrophe wrought by Hurricane Matthew. “It’s a new day here in Jacksonville,” Curry said, adding that we’re on the other side of the storm and “there’s a lot of work to be done.” More than 214,000 JEA customers lacked power as of 8:45 a.m. Saturday. Branches […]

A.G. GancarskiOctober 7, 2016

The key quote came at the end: “We’re just going to pick up the pieces together as a community when we get out of this thing.” Hurricane Matthew wreaked the bulk of its havoc in Duval County on Jacksonville’s beaches and in low-lying areas, as expected. As the storm blew northward, Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry recapped […]

A.G. GancarskiOctober 7, 2016

On Friday afternoon, as the worst of Matthew threatened his city with hurricane conditions through nightfall, Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry briefed media and a home audience on the storm. At his last briefing Friday morning, the message was “hunker down.” In the afternoon, the message was similar. “We are in the middle of it, so my […]

A.G. GancarskiOctober 7, 2016

11 a.m. update: The city of Jacksonville sent an email saying the worst is yet to come. “Hurricane conditions are expected in 3-6 hours,” while water levels look poised to peak at “1-2 p.m. and 1-2 a.m. tonight.” Two bridges are closed, the Dames Point Bridge and Atlantic Boulevard Intracoastal Waterway Bridge. The Fuller-Warren is still open, for […]

Associated PressOctober 7, 2016

Hurricane Matthew scraped Florida’s Atlantic coast early Friday, toppling trees onto homes and knocking out power to a half-million people but sparing some of the most heavily populated stretches of shoreline the catastrophic blow many had feared. Authorities warned that the danger was far from over, with hundreds of miles of coastline in Florida, Georgia […]

A.G. GancarskiOctober 7, 2016

WJXT-TV anchor Tom Wills got deeply emotional on a Thursday telecast regarding the need to evacuate Jacksonville’s beaches during Hurricane Matthew. He got so emotional, in fact, that he got coverage statewide. The Tampa Bay Times‘ “Buzz” picked up on Wills comparing impacts from the storm to Hurricanes Katrina and Hugo, in an emotional plea Thursday afternoon that […]

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