Parts of the Florida Gulf coast were under hurricane warnings as
Hurricane Hermine rotated toward the state packing 80-mph winds Thursday
night.
Gov. Rick Scott urged areas along a long stretch
of the coast centered on the so-called Big Bend — the elbow where the
state's peninsula meets the Panhandle — to lay in food and water and
make sure they had shelter ahead of the "life-threatening" hurricane —
the first for the state since Wilma 11 years ago.
"You can rebuild a home. You can rebuild property," Scott said. "You cannot rebuild a life."
Hermine was "just looming off the coast" Thursday night, said Ari Sarsalari, a meteorologist for The Weather Channel. "The whole Big Bend is in for a brutal night."
The National Weather Service said Hermine, which
was centered about 40 miles southeast of Apalachicola at 9 p.m. ET, was
expected to make landfall late Thursday or early Friday somewhere
between Apalachicola and Horseshoe Beach.
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