The hurricane idealia Florida hit Florida on Wednesday morning and all state authorities are on alert to provide assistance to victims.
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The rain and strong winds caused damage to several infrastructures and journalist Paul LaGrone went on site to document the effects of this weather bomb in the Keaton Beach area, the location of the eye of the storm.
“The wind is strong enough to knock me over and I weigh 172 pounds,” he told ABC News in a live broadcast. You have to be really careful.”
“I am very concerned about the citizens sitting in mobile homes. I really hope they are safe,” he continues.
Later that day, the journalist was almost blown away by the wind. The intensity of the storm forced him to seek shelter in the middle of his reporting.
Gusts of 132 km/h were recorded.
Nearly 300,000 homes were without power in Florida on Wednesday.