NASA astronauts shared footage of Hurricane Idalia as the International Space Station passed over the storm on Wednesday.
Striking footage from the International Space Station shows Hurricane Idalia approaching Florida's coast
NASA live-streamed footage of the storm on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, as the ISS flew over the massive storm.Wednesday morning as a Category 3 hurricane, triggering a massive response from Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' administration. The massive storm knocked out power for roughly 270,000 Floridians, as well as 40,000 Georgians. DeSantis said linemen had already gotten power back to 100,000 Florida residents as of late morning."The goal is to get everybody back online as quickly as possible," DeSantis said during a Wednesday press conference, adding that search and rescue efforts would remain throughout the storm’s duration, as long as it was safe to do so.
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