In the wake Hurricane Irma, many people are still left picking up the pieces. While the eye of Irma moved right up the west coast of the state, the impacts were far reaching. One place hard hit was Jacksonville, Florida in the northeast corner of the state.
Multiple convective bands of rain, drawing in an abundance of moisture from the Atlantic, dropped anywhere from three to ten plus inches of rain across the city. The west part of the city received the highest totals. This caused the St. John's river which runs right through downtown Jacksonville to reach record levels and brought FEET of water through downtown streets.
Jacksonville Sheriff's office reports they saved over three hundred people. Members of the Florida National Guard even went door to door(in a small boat) to help Jacksonville residents in flooded streets.
Irma is now a post-tropical cyclone with sustained winds of only 25mph. Irma's destruction is over, but the system will still drop potentially another 2-4" of rain over areas of the mid-south over the next couple of days. The good news is, the weather pattern over Jacksonville will remain fairly quiet over the next several days allowing residents to clean up.
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