A pedestrian makes their way across a flooded section of Avenida Menendez in the Saint Augustine historic district after storm-driven high tides flooded low-lying areas of the city. The winds and high tides spawned by Tropical Storm Nicole continue to increase as the storm makes its way to landfall on Florida's east coast. Tropical Storm Nicole St Augustine
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MIAMI (AP) — A Florida-bound storm has strengthened into Hurricane Nicole after pounding the Bahamas and state officials ordered evacuations that included former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club.
It’s a rare November hurricane for storm-weary Florida, where only two hurricanes have made landfall since recordkeeping began in 1853 — the 1935 Yankee Hurricane and Hurricane Kate in 1985. At 6 p.m. EST, the storm was 105 miles (170 kilometers) east of West Palm Beach, Florida, the Miami-based National Hurricane Center said.
Its maximum sustained winds were recorded at 75 mph (120 kph), and the system was moving west at 12 mph (19 kph).
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