Early Thursday morning, the tempest was heading into cardinal Florida. State Division of Emergency Management Executive Director Kevin Guthrie connected Wednesday warned residents successful the way of the tempest to statesman preparing.
“I impulse Floridians statewide to enactment indoors successful a harmless structure, and distant from the coastline,” Guthrie said. “The adjacent fewer hours are your past accidental to bring successful imaginable damaging items earlier Nicole makes landfall.”
While perchance dangerous, Nicole is not expected to beryllium arsenic almighty arsenic Hurricane Ian, which slammed into Florida’s westbound seashore successful precocious September arsenic a Category 4 hurricane. That hurricane initially near much than 2 cardinal without powerfulness and caused catastrophic harm on immoderate coastal areas, including successful Lee County wherever the tempest made landfall.
At slightest 125 radical were killed by hurricane Ian, galore by drowning.
Florida Power & Light Co. CEO and Chair Eric Silagy said Wednesday greeting the inferior could not foretell the fig of customers who volition suffer power. But helium said helium expects trees to autumn into powerfulness lines due to the fact that the ungraded is saturated successful South Florida and histrion roots were near weakened by Hurricane Ian.
“We are hoping for the champion but we are prepared for the worst,” Silagy said. “That’s wherefore we person brought successful the crews. We person our program successful spot and we volition execute connected that plan.”
Silagy said FPL had 13,000 workers connected manus and was moving to reconstruct powerfulness to customers affected by outer rainfall bands from Tropical Storm Nicole.
U. S. Army Corps of Engineers spokesperson James Yocum said the tempest does not airs a hazard to the strengthened Herbert Hoover Dike astir Lake Okeechobee. Communities astir the water were evacuated during Hurricane Irma successful 2017 due to the fact that of the menace to the flood power dike.
But the bureau said with the water astatine astir 16 feet supra oversea level determination whitethorn request to beryllium discharges to little the water and support dike. Those discharges successful the past person been blamed for algae that has forced the closure of beaches and killed oversea life.
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