Historic Hurricane Idalia powered across southeastern Georgia on Wednesday afternoon after making landfall earlier along Florida's Big Bend as a Category 3 tropical cyclone, driving "catastrophic" storm surge and flooding for hundreds of miles.

The storm's center was 100 miles west-northwest of Savannah, Georgia, by 2 p.m., heading northeast at 20 mph with sustained winds of 75 mph − weakening over land but still barely a hurricane.

"Flash and river flooding is likely across Georgia and the eastern Carolinas through Thursday," the National Hurricane Center said in its afternoon update.

Swells along the eastern and central Gulf Coast from Florida to Louisiana also were expected to increase along the southeastern Atlantic coast and were "likely to cause life-threatening surf and rip current conditions," the hurricane center said.

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