Hunkering down

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1:30PM EDT Sunday
Irma hits keys as Cat4 predicted to remain hurricane strength over N Florida as it follows up the W coast picking up warm moisture as it goes.
Flooding begins in Miami under 130 MPH winds which previously killed 28 people in the Caribbean.
Storm will hit Tampa by the end of the day moving at 9 MPH with a 6PM curfew. Hurricane force winds will stretch up to 90 miles from the eye and tropical storm winds up to 220 miles. FL is 158 miles wide the widest part of the ocean peninsula. Warnings of tornadoes for next 36 hours with 6 mobile homes destroyed so far with two confirmed touch downs. 1.5 mil people have lost power in the first few hours of crossing the Keys. Of the 6.4 million people in FL affected by the path, 127,000 are in shelters at this time.
As people focused on whether the eye would hit the W or E coast and juggled their travels accordingly, they lost sight of the physical size of the storm which has hurricane damage potential across the entire state for the duration of its travel.
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