Michael Wiser for NBC News Floodwater breaches the Battery wall following Tropical Storm Idalia in Charleston, S.C., on Wednesday. Streets around Charleston City Market floods as tides rise following Tropical Storm Idalia in Charleston, S.C., on Wednesday. Michael Wiser for NBC Newsįloodwater rolled down a street like a river as downed branches, leaves and debris lined nearby sidewalks.

Streets around White Point Garden in Charleston, S.C., flood as tides rise Wednesday. Water on the streets around the Battery was ankle or shin deep in areas, submerging parts of the White Point Garden park. Peak tides swelled over the Battery wall in downtown Charleston on Wednesday night, inundating nearby roads after Idalia brought what the National Weather Service said could be the fifth-highest peak tide on record. “We haven’t had a storm take this path at this level since the 1890s, that hit this part of Florida, so this is something that that is a really big deal,” DeSantis said.Īround 150,000 customers were without electricity in Florida late Wednesday, and around 149,000 were without power in Georgia, according to tracking website .ĬHARLESTON, S.C. The hurricane destroyed homes and flooded coastal communities in Florida, and at least one death there, a car crash, was blamed on the weather, officials said.Īs a tropical storm, Idalia flooded parts of Charleston, and the harbor in the South Carolina city recorded its fifth-highest peak tide Wednesday night, according to the National Weather Service.īig Bend counties bore the brunt of the storm, Florida Gov. Tropical Storm Idalia continued to bring heavy rains to South Carolina and posed a risk of sending storm surge ashore, hours after it made landfall in western Florida as a Category 3 hurricane, officials said. Please click here for the latest updates.

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