[Breaking news update, published at 5:02 a.m. ET]

Idalia has strengthened into a Category 1 hurricane with winds of 75 mph and is expected to further intensify into a dangerous Category 3 storm before making landfall on Florida’s Gulf Coast on Wednesday, according to the National Hurricane Center.

  • 18-24-61-B-17-17-4@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    I hate that I’ve gotten to the point with Florida that I don’t give a fuck if they get smoked by a hurricane. Such a shitty way to feel as a human being, but it’s how it is now.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    I think we need to start calling hurricanes sea leopards and wildfires forest leopards because they’re eating the fuck out of our faces.