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Stranded Families (Brevard): "We're scared. We wish we hadn't stayed."
Brevard County (Cocoa, Cape Canaveral) appears to be getting hit hard.
Stranded Families: "We're scared. We wish we hadn't stayed."
Tampa Bay Times, 10/7/16
Officials say people who refused to evacuate from central Florida's Atlantic coast are calling for help now as Hurricane Matthew's western eyewall brushes past Cape Canaveral.
Brevard County Emergency Operations spokesman David Waters said early Friday that more than 100,000 people in the area had lost power.
Mandatory evacuation orders had been issued for 90,000 people living on barrier islands and in mobile homes and low-lying areas. Waters says some residents who refused to leave now find themselves cut off as they face the worst of the hurricane.
He says a family called in that the roof "just flew off their home on Merritt Island."
Brevard County Emergency Operations spokesman David Waters said early Friday that more than 100,000 people in the area had lost power.
Mandatory evacuation orders had been issued for 90,000 people living on barrier islands and in mobile homes and low-lying areas. Waters says some residents who refused to leave now find themselves cut off as they face the worst of the hurricane.
He says a family called in that the roof "just flew off their home on Merritt Island."
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