Idalia

 NY Times: Hurricane Idalia ‘Extremely Dangerous’ Storm Reaches Category 4 Strength - Idalia, now with sustained winds of 130 miles per hour, was forecast to make landfall along Florida’s Gulf Coast on Wednesday morning, bringing catastrophic storm surges.

Idalia is expected to come ashore along the Big Bend, a section of the Florida coast that is marshy and dotted with tiny fishing villages. In one, Cedar Key, the mayor begged about 100 holdouts to leave town. “We haven’t seen a storm this bad, ever,” Mayor Heath Davis said.