Friday

                                                                        September 2, 2016
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The High Hazard warning flag flaps in the breeze Thursday, Sept. 1, 2016, on the dunes near the Jacksonville Beach, Fla., Fishing Pier ahead of the expected Gulf
Coast landfall of Tropical Storm Hermine Thursday night.

                                                                                                                                                                                   (Bob Self/The Florida Times-Union via AP)

Florida Braces for ‘Life-Threatening’ Hurricane Hermine

JOSH REPLOGLE                where people put up shut-        Center said the storm’s     or early Friday along the    and push into Georgia, the
Associated Press             ters, nailed plywood across      winds reached about 75      state’s Big Bend the mostly  Carolinas and up the East
CEDAR KEY, Fla. (AP) Tropi-  store windows and braced         mph in the afternoon, just  rural and lightly populated  Coast with the potential for
cal Storm Hermine strength-  for the first direct hit on the  above the 74 mph hurri-     corner where the Florida     drenching rain and deadly
ened into a hurricane        state from a hurricane in        cane threshold.             peninsula meets the Pan-     flooding.
Thursday and steamed to-     over a decade.                   Hermine was expected to     handle then drop back
ward Florida’s Gulf Coast,   The National Hurricane           blow ashore late Thursday   down to a tropical storm           Continued on Page 3