Tolls were suspended Sunday on Florida’s Turnpike and other roads in South Florida and Central Florida, as local mandatory evacuation orders started and large portions of the state’s East Coast continued to face threats from catastrophic Hurricane Dorian.
With Dorian churning westward Sunday afternoon less than a couple of hundred miles east of West Palm Beach, Gov. Ron DeSantis warned that the “threat is still there” with Dorian now a “Cat 5-plus.”
“We are in a situation here where this thing is perilously close to the state,” DeSantis said while speaking to reporters at the state Emergency Operations Center in Tallahasse.
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