10-09-2017 16:44 via sltrib.com

‘Pray for everybody’: Irma begins its assault on Florida

St. Petersburg, Fla. • Announcing itself with roaring 130 mph winds, Hurricane Irma plowed into the mostly emptied-out Florida Keys early Sunday for the start of what could be a slow, ruinous march up the state’s west coast toward the heavily populated Tampa-St. Petersburg area.“Pray, pray for everybody in Florida,” Gov. Rick Scott said on “Fox News Sunday.”With an estimated 127,000 huddling in shelters statewide, the storm lashed the low-lying string of island
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