TALLAHASSEE, Fla.–Rain was drenching the city of 202,000 people Wednesday morning after Hurricane Idalia made landfall about 80 miles south.
Approximately 30,624 customers were without power in Tallahassee, according to a city website; 44,497, or about 34% of tracked customers, were experiencing outages in Leon County, which includes Tallahassee, according to PowerOutage.us.
Tallahassee Mayor John Dailey, speaking from the local emergency operations center, said that the National Weather Service has said Idalia would likely “be the strongest hurricane that the city of Tallahassee has seen in the history of our city. And quite frankly, the strongest storm the Big Bend area has ever seen.”
