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Although Florida is accustomed to hurricanes and powerful storms, the arrival of Hurricane Idalia sparked new concerns. This is because Florida's Big Bend region hadn't experienced a storm of such intensity in decades. Hurricane Idalia made landfall, dumping up to a foot of rain with winds whipping at 130 miles per hour. But it wasn't the wind or the rain that scared millions of Floridians; it was the surge. Feet of water surging into the low-lying town of Cedar Key, basically an island surrounded by the Gulf of Mexico. "It...