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August 31 – Hurricane Gustav brushed the Florida Keys before tracking into central Louisiana. Rip currents from the hurricane killed four people in Florida. The storm also produced six tornadoes in the state. [82] September 5 – Hurricane Hanna passed east of the state while moving toward the Carolinas. Rip currents and high seas killed ...
Pinellas County residents in mandatory evacuation zones must leave by 12 p.m. on Thursday, officials announced.
Pinellas County Schools to relocate 2,000 students this week, 2 schools damaged in hurricane . Damages can also be reported locally through Disaster.Pinellas.gov. Nearly 13,000 people have applied ...
Pinellas County, which includes St. Petersburg, ordered the evacuation of more than 500,000 people. Lee County said 416,000 people lived in its mandatory evacuation zones.
Hurricane Irma was the costliest tropical cyclone in the history of the U.S. state of Florida, before being surpassed by Hurricane Ian in 2022. Irma also was the first major hurricane [nb 1] to strike the state since Wilma in 2005 and the first Category 4 hurricane to make landfall in Florida since Charley in 2004.
Because of the threat, 1.9 million people along the Florida west coast were urged to evacuate, including 380,000 residents in the Tampa Bay area, and 11,000 in the Florida Keys. [21] [22] [23] It was the largest evacuation order for Pinellas County history, [23] and the largest evacuation request in Florida since Hurricane Floyd five
Florida is bracing for Hurricane Milton, which is expected to make landfall as early as Wednesday evening. ... Officials say it could be the largest evacuation since Hurricane Irma in 2017, when ...
Initial forecasts of a southeastern Florida landfall resulted in the evacuation of over 1.2 million residents, including much of the Florida Keys. Despite the mandatory evacuation order, 20,000 people, including over 7,000 Key West citizens, refused to leave. Some of those who remained to ride out the storm were shrimpers, whose boats were ...