Restoration efforts from Hurricane Idalia will continue for years in rural North Florida, particularly for people in the agriculture industry. State lawmakers are expected to see requests for more money. Further tweaks are needed to state and local storm-recovery planning.
But while the 2023 season will end next week, restoration efforts from Hurricane Idalia will continue for years in rural North Florida, particularly for people in the agriculture industry. State lawmakers are expected to see requests for more money. Further tweaks are needed to state and local storm-recovery planning .Initially forecast to be “near normal,” with 12 to 17 named storms, the six-month season is approaching its Nov.
30 end as one of the most active on record with 20 named systems so far. Luckily, few affected Florida. And the storms that did, topped by Idalia, didn’t approach the levels of destruction and death that the state experienced with Hurricane Ian and Hurricane Nicole during the brutal 2022 season. State Division of Emergency Management Director Kevin Guthrie said Idalia’s landfall in the lightly populated Keaton Beach area of Taylor County as a Category 3 storm with sustained winds of 125 mph was “A best place for that to go,” even if it did “cause catastrophic damage to numerous rural counties in the Big Bend area
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