Time is running out for Florida: Hurricane Irma to bring devastating winds, storm surge

(Note: This story will be updated throughout the day Friday.)

Barely two weeks after Hurricane Harvey brought the sprawling, flood-prone city of Houston to a halt, Hurricane Irma promises to deliver a knockout blow to another region experiencing rapid growth, and plagued by what experts call hurricane amnesia. 

It has been 13 years since a Category 4 hurricane hit the U.S., when Charley made landfall north of Tampa, but that storm largely spared Miami its worst winds and storm surge flooding. 

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In fact, lifetime residents of southern parts of Miami under the age of 25 have never experienced a major hurricane making a direct hit before, the last one being compact but devastating Hurricane Andrew, which struck in August 1992 as a compact but ferocious Category 5 storm. That storm, too, missed downtown Miami as well as Ft. Lauderdale and West Palm Beach. Read more...

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