Gov Rick Scott Urges Residents to Prepare as Hurricane Irma Threatens Florida

TALLAHASSEE, Florida — On Monday, Gov. Rick Scott (R-FL) urged Floridians to have a disaster plan in place as Hurricane Irma approached the U.S. mainland. **UPDATES BELOW** UPDATE 5:30 p.m. ET: The latest computer model tracking still shows most of the models predicting Irma’s northward turn just south of Miami. However, some are starting to show Irma continuing a more westwardly track and turning into the Gulf of Mexico. UPDATE 5:20 p.m. ET: Scott says Hurricane Irma’s landfall will be unlike anything the state has experienced since Hurricane Andrew’s landfall in 1992 near Homestead, FL. From FloridaPolitics.com: “One of the things that I talked with the acting director of FEMA today (Robert Fenton) is ‘don’t wait,’” he told reporters. “But we haven’t had a landfall like this since Andrew,” he said referring to the August 1992 storm, the last Category 5 rainmaker to hit the U.S. mainland. UPDATE 5 p.m. ET: The latest advisory from the National Hurricane Center has Hurricane Irma as a Category 5 storm and will weaken to a Category 4 storm as it makes it way through the Carribbean and into the Florida Keys. #firstalertwx #Irma UPDATED 5pm advisory Tue., 09/05 @WOKVNews pic.twitter.com/N6JrEotSoG — Mike Buresh (@MikeFirstAlert) September