Irma Live Updates: Storm Pushes North, but Millions Are Without Power in Florida<br />“It’s horrible what we saw.”<br />• As of 5 p.m., the storm had maximum sustained winds of 50 miles per hour and was moving north-northwest about 10 miles east of Albany, Ga.<br />• The National Weather Service said a flash flood emergency had been declared in Charleston, S. C.<br />• Flooding from a storm surge in Jacksonville exceeded a record set by Hurricane Dora in 1964, the National Weather Service said.<br />In Tampa, Mayor Bob Buckhorn, who on Sunday warned residents<br />that the city was about to get “punched in the face,” said on Monday that the city had been spared the storm’s worst.<br />“But just if you looked at the bigger weather map and saw the counterclockwise rotation of Irma, juxtaposed with a clockwise high-pressure rotation over the Atlantic, Charleston was like in the pincer of those two motions<br />that has driven wind and hurricane bands almost directly into our city.”<br />Mr. Tecklenburg said that the flooding was even worse than last year’s Hurricane Matthew, which inundated the city in October, in great part<br />because Matthew arrived at low tide, whereas Irma’s effect came at high tide.<br />“We need you to heed our warnings,” Mayor Lenny Curry of Jacksonville said on Monday, explaining<br />that high tides would raise river waters up to 6 feet above their normal levels and cause additional flooding.<br />In an interview Monday afternoon, Mayor John Tecklenburg said<br />that the city had been hit with a four-foot storm surge, leaving parts of the peninsula looking as if they had merged with the Ashley River.
