Florida’s governor is issuing urgent warnings to a third of his state’s residents to evacuate ahead of a massive hurricane on track to be the state’s most catastrophic ever.
Florida governor Rick Scott said: “This is the most catastrophic storm the state has ever seen."
Scott says the entire west coast of Florida will likely see dangerous affects from storm surge as Hurricane Irma comes ashore Sunday. About 6.3 million of the state’s approximately 21 million residents have been asked to evacuate.
During a Saturday news conference, he told those in evacuation zones: “You need to leave — not tonight, not in an hour, right now”
He says the storm is “going to go faster than you are.”
Scott said 25,000 people in Florida have already lost electricity as Irma’s outer bands have begun hitting the southern part of the state.
The governor also warned of dangerous storm surge of between 6 feet (2 meters) and 12 feet (4 meters) across parts of Florida.
He said: “This will cover your house."
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