Typhoon Idalia batters Florida– in images

Hurricane Idalia batters Florida– in photos Hurricane Idalia tore into Florida with effective winds splitting trees in half, ripping roofings off hotels and turning little cars and trucks into boats. After coming ashore in the state’s Big Bend area, the storm swept into Georgia where it flooded roadways and sent out some locals getting away to greater ground Compiled by Guy Lane Main image: A storm-battered fuel station in Perry. Picture: Sean Rayford/Getty Images Thu 31 Aug 2023 02.44 EDT People attempt to release a vehicle as Hurricane Idalia crosses the state near Mayo Photograph: Sean Rayford/Getty Images A flooded interstate 275 over Tampa Bay Photograph: AP Reporters learn flood waters in Tarpon Springs Photograph: Joe Raedle/Getty Images The charred remains of homes after a power transformer surge in Signal Cove in Hudson Photograph: Miguel J Rodriguez Carrillo/AFP/Getty Images A truck teeters on the ledge of a channel filled with particles in Horseshoe Beach Photograph: Cristóbal Herrera/EPA A regional homeowner, Jewell Baggett, rests on a tub surrounded by the wreckage of her house in Horseshoe Beach Photograph: Cheney Orr/Reuters The wreckage of a shrimping organization in Horseshoe Beach Photograph: Cheney Orr/Reuters Destroyed homes in Horseshoe Beach Photograph: Cristóbal Herrera/EPA A storm-damaged fuel station in Perry Photograph: Sean Rayford/Getty Images A partly immersed lorry in a canal in Horseshoe Beach Photograph: Cheney Orr/Reuters A store owner utilizes a sump pump to attempt to keep water out of his shop in Tarpon Springs Photograph: Joe Raedle/Getty Images A displaced, broken mobile house is left in the middle of a roadway in Steinhatchee Photograph: Chandan Khanna/AFP/Getty Images Residents Makatla Ritchter and her mom, Keiphra Line, learn flood waters after needing to leave their house in Tarpon Springs Photograph: Joe Raedle/Getty Images A cars and truck is partly immersed in Cedar Key Photograph: Julio Cesar Chavez/Reuters A damaged house in Keaton Beach Photograph: Chandan Khanna/AFP/Getty Images People kayak past a deserted automobile in the crossway of Boca Ciega Drive and Pasadena Avenue in St Pete Beach Photograph: Chris Urso/AP An automobile drives along a flooded street in New Port Richey Photograph: Miguel J Rodriguez Carrillo/AFP/Getty Images

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