By MATTHEW COX and JOE HUTCHISON FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
About 120,000 homes in Florida were without power Thursday morning after ‘hurricane’ level winds and torrential rain hit the state overnight.
The Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach area were hit with hurricane-force winds and rain that left seven million people under flood watch.
The National Weather Service called the wind speeds recorded in some of these areas ‘hurricane equivalent’, as they topped 74mph.
‘Damaging winds will blow down trees and power lines. Widespread power outages are expected,’ they said.
Forecasters predicted five to eight inches of rain across Miami and the Fort Lauderdale areas of South Florida today, with up to 12 inches in some area, according to Fox Weather. ………MORE HERE
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