Before and after images show the scale of damage in Florida.
Short-lived tornadoes were also reported as a knock-on effect.
Although weakening from a Category 4 hurricane down to Category 3 and then a tropical storm, Idalia still swirled with 60mph winds as itBurned rubble is all that remains where a house stood inThe storm turned its fury on southeastern Georgia, where floodwaters trapped some residents in their homes. North Carolina is bearing the brunt of the extreme weather on Thursday before the cyclone will finally rumble out across the Atlantic off the east coast of the US over the weekend.One man was killed in Valdosta, Georgia, when a tree fell on him as he was trying to clear another tree out of the road, said Lowndes County Sheriff Ashley Paulk.
Because of the remoteness of the Big Bend area, search teams may need more time to complete their work compared with past hurricanes in more urban areas, said Kevin Guthrie, director of the Florida Department of Emergency Management. The National Weather Service in Tallahassee called Idalia ‘an unprecedented event’ since no major hurricanes on record have ever passed through the bay abutting the Big Bend.
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