SBDR, Send Relief responding to Hurricane Idalia as storm enters Atlantic

VALDOSTA, Ga. – Hurricane Idalia moved offshore of the North Carolina coast Thursday (Aug. 31) after making landfall in Florida’s Big Bend the morning of Aug. 30 as a Category 3 storm and rolling across northern Florida, South Georgia and South Carolina, leaving hundreds of thousands of people without power, downing trees and generating flash floods in its wake.

So far, officials have cited the storm as the cause of death for three victims, two in Florida and one in Georgia.