The National Weather Service reports Tropical Storm Idalia has picked up speed and is tracking north-east, though there remains uncertainty around the exact track, size and intensity of the storm. It is anticipated that this large storm will be a Category 3 by the time it makes landfall, most likely Tuesday night. Tropical Storm Warnings are now in effect for Leon and Wakulla Counties.<\/p>\n
We encourage you to get prepared now by filling your gas tank, keeping phones and other electronics charged, readying your go bag, and removing any yard or curbside debris.<\/p>\n
For more preparedness information, visit weather.gov\/hurricane<\/a>.\u00a0Local preparedness\u00a0information can be found at the Leon County emergency information portal: cms.leoncountyfl.gov\/ei<\/a>.<\/p>\n An update is expected later this afternoon as the track of the storm is refined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The National Weather Service reports Tropical Storm Idalia has picked up speed and is tracking north-east, though there remains uncertainty around the exact track, size and intensity of the storm. It is anticipated that this large storm will be a Category 3 by the time it makes landfall, most likely Tuesday night. Tropical Storm Warnings…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":130,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tsc.fl.edu\/alerts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tsc.fl.edu\/alerts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tsc.fl.edu\/alerts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tsc.fl.edu\/alerts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/130"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tsc.fl.edu\/alerts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tsc.fl.edu\/alerts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":397,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tsc.fl.edu\/alerts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions\/397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tsc.fl.edu\/alerts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tsc.fl.edu\/alerts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tsc.fl.edu\/alerts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}