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Hurricane Hermine slams Florida
Growing winds and driving rain from Hurricane Hermine lashed Florida’s northern Gulf Coast early today as power outages left tens of thousands of households in the dark in what the state’s governor warned would be a potentially lethal storm.
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Conditions deteriorated as Hurricane Hermine was making landfall, packing winds of 80 mph (130 km/h) with several areas in Florida already reporting 5 inches (12 cm) of rain and media reported about 270,000 households had been left without power. “It is a mess...we have high water in numerous places,” Virgil Sandlin, the police chief in Cedar Key, Florida, told the Weather Channel. “I was here in 1985 for Hurricane Elena and I don’t recall anything this bad.”
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