As Hurricane Idalia moved across Florida, an oak tree fell on the state’s governor’s estate this Wednesday. No people were injured.
New damage from Hurricane Idalia. This Wednesday, the mansion of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, also running in the Republican primary for the 2024 presidential election, was hit by the fall of a century-old oak tree, broken by the wind.
In a picture posted by Casey DeSantis, the governor’s wife, on
“Mason, Madison, Mamie (the couple’s children, editor’s note) and I were home at the time, but fortunately no one was injured,” she commented.
Category 3 hurricane
Florida is facing widespread flooding following Hurricane Idalia, which downed trees and power lines and is now sweeping across the state of Georgia.
According to the National Hurricane Center (NHC), Idalia made landfall near Keaton Beach, Florida, at 7:45 a.m. local time as a Category 3 hurricane on a scale of 5, with winds of up to 80 miles per hour. It has since been downgraded to a Category 1 hurricane.
“Our prayers go out to everyone affected by the storm,” Casey DeSantis added.
Her husband, who was not at home at the time of the incident, had announced earlier in the day that the coast of this southeastern state had been hit by “marine flooding” that had caused rapid rises in water in some towns Florida no confirmed deaths.
Although its intensity decreased after landfall, Idalia is still expected to become a hurricane when its gusts reach southeast Georgia and then South Carolina on Wednesday afternoon, where a state of emergency has been declared.