Two category 4 hurricanes in one season

Arian Campo-Flores and Joseph De Avila report in the Wall Street Journal about Hurricane Irma, which has left the Florida Keys and is moving to the southwest coast of Florida. Governor Scott talked with NBC about the danger of storm surges: “What is really scary is the storm surge,” Mr. Scott said. “It flushes in and flushes out. That’s going to be difficult to survive.” Potential storm-surge flooding in the image below is shown in four shades of blue. Greater than:
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Just the nine southern counties of Florida that are expected to be hit first—roughly from Palm Beach on the Atlantic coast to Port Charlotte on the Gulf Coast—count 7.2 million residents.

They include 1.3 million who are over 65, of whom 320,000 live alone, according to Census estimates. Among them are more than 400,000 with physical or mental disabilities that limit daily activities. Overall, more than three-quarters of a million disabled people live in the area.

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