Ports and roads shut down as Cat 3 Hurricane Idalia slams North Florida

Editor's note: This story was updated Wednesday, Aug. 30, 9 a.m. EST.

Hurricane Idalia made landfall Wednesday morning as a powerful Category 3 hurricane roughly 30 miles southeast of Tallahassee leading to the closure of one of the nation’s busiest ports along with roads and highways. 

The National Hurricane Center’s latest track shows the storm traveling north-northeast at 18 mph into southeast Georgia towards the Port of Savannah which shut down late Tuesday.

A traffic cam from the Florida Department of Transportation shows Interstate 75 on Wednesday morning at 9:29 a.m. EST not long after Hurricane Idalia made landfall.FDOTPort officials are planning to reopen Thursday to resume business at the bustling Atlantic port which saw 447,587 TEUs or twenty-foot equivalent containers for July, a 17% increase over June. Other ports that have closed include the Port of Jacksonville, Fla., Port Canaveral, and the Port of Charleston, S.C.

Several roads and highways have been closed in Florida including a stretch of Interstate 10 about 20 miles east of Tallahassee which is currently in the path of the storm. Florida Department of Transportation regularly updates road conditions on fl511.com. 

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