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2:51 PM EDT
Cat 3 with 120 MPH winds as the eye approaches Naples.
FEMA sets up rumor control page to offset misinformation being spread on social media. Numerous scams are being perpetrated including what happened in Texas with fake inspectors and first responders with no official ID looting people's homes. Email scams asking for money. Official relief agencies will not contact you through social media or email asking for money. They rely on SSL web site donation (HTTPS) and checks made out to the official charity.
Scams: not to individuals or modified charity names. Robo calls telling people their flood insurance is over due and to pay through a fishing web site, etc.
https://www.fema.gov/hurricane-irma-rumor-control
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4:58PM EDT
Irma cat 2 110 MPH winds now over mainland Marco Island FL.
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8:00 EDT Cat 2 105 MPH nearing central FL coast after leaving Naples.
Heavy flooding in Miami. W inland storm surge is expected after eye passes.
The eye low pressure sucked water out to see in many areas, but that water is expected to return in a rush.
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8PM EDT Irma eye is about even with Lake Okeechobee as cat 2 100 MPH, going N at 14 MPH, now expected to leave the state as a tropical storm.
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12AM EDT
Roughly 3.3 million out of 7 million customers without power as storm continues to advance on Tampa. The storm surge at Key Largo totaled six feet. Cat 2 and 100 MPH winds. Seven Million people in Florida were asked to evacuate (1/3 of the population.) The storm center should leave FL Monday late afternoon while 1/2 of Florida is still in tropical storm conditions (39 - 75 MPH winds) and continued heavy rain, thunderstorms and tornadoes.
Three inches of rain has fallen in NE Florida and flash flood warnings are in effect there.

Orlando is next arriving there between 2-4AM local time.
Six inches of rain has fallen so far in some areas.
18 mobile homes near Canaveral Space Center destroyed by tornadoes.
Brickell Avenue in Miami is submerged while the C9 canal is near maximum.
Edgewater neighborhood is under water.
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1:00PM EDT Mon
Crossing into Georgia as Tropical Storm 44-65 MPH while Thunder Storm conditions encompass a four state area and most of Florida 415 miles wide. 28 arrests for looting.
4.2 million without power. 77 million spent so far including 7,000 National Guard and over 400 shelters. Clearing roads and restoring power (11,000 utility workers) will slow the initial cleanup and rescue effort. Pre-staged necessities are in place to distribute (including motor fuel) as soon as it's safe to do so with 1 million gallons of water, 11 million meals in 67 trailers and 700 cases of baby supplies. Wide spread storm conditions may be in effect for days.
Storm surge at Virgina Key, in Biscayne Bay, was close to 4 feet above normal tides Sunday afternoon. At Naples, in the Gulf of Mexico, storm surge topped 4 feet above normal tides early Sunday evening.
Over 10 inches of flooding shut down a stretch of U.S. 1 in Ft. Pierce, Florida, Sunday, with water reportedly into at least one home and parked cars flooded.
Flash flood emergency declared for downtown Jacksonville as St Johns river exceeded previous records during a 5 foot storm surge where twenty seven inches of rain fell in 24 hours with another two ft expected. As of 4:40 PM Mon, 32 knot gusts remain.

Flooding has begun in Georgia.
Storm surge and flooding expected well past mid South Carolina.
Atlanta where a lot of evacuees escaped will also be affected.
Storm surges if occurring at high tide will produce:
Tampa Bay- 4-6 feet
Ochlockonee River on the panhandle- 4 to 6 feetSouth Santee Beach in South Carolina- 4-6 ft
St. Johns River- 3 to 5 feet

Some areas could get up to 20 inches of additional rain fall.
Northern Florida Peninsula: 3 to 6 additional inches, with storm totals of 8 to 15 inches.
Central Florida Panhandle: 2 to 4 additional inches.

Power outages from tropical storm-force winds are expected to spread as far north as the Tennessee Valley Monday and Monday night.

Over all, the time the storm spent raking Cuba prevented it from arriving as a cat 5 storm.

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By noon Eastern Monday, both Jacksonville and Charleston are experiencing record flooding and storm surge. Warnings continue untill 10P Eastern. Total deaths so far, 44.
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