Idalia aftermath shows downed power lines, flooding and damaged homes | USA TODAY

Idalia ripped through parts of Florida with damaging winds and powerful storm surges, leaving a widespread damage in its wake. https://tinyurl.com/3rac4v56

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Downgraded to a tropical storm, what had been Hurricane Idalia powered across southeastern Georgia and the Carolinas on Wednesday evening after making landfall earlier along Florida's Big Bend as a Category 3 tropical cyclone and driving "catastrophic" storm surge and flooding for hundreds of miles.

As of 5 p.m., the storm's center was located 115 miles west-southwest of Charleston, South Carolina, heading northeast at 21 mph with sustained winds of 70 mph.

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