Hurricane warnings were lowered to tropical storm warnings across the Florida peninsula, with widespread, catastrophic flooding remaining likely, the hurricane center said. We’re still expecting quite a bit of rainfall,” Robbie Berg, senior hurricane specialist with the National Hurricane Center, said in an interview with The Associated Press. Up to a foot (30 centimeters) of rain forecast for parts of Northeast Florida, coastal Georgia and the Lowcountry of South Carolina. More than 2.5 million Florida homes and businesses were left without electricity, according to the PowerOutage.us site. The governors of South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia and Virginia all preemptively declared states of emergency.

Source: Economic Times September 30, 2022 00:42 UTC