South Florida's beaches were eerily bare Friday as residents swarmed hardware stores and waited on lines at gas stations as they prepared to flee Hurricane Irma's wrath.Gov. Rick Scott urged residents in evacuation zones, including more than a half-million people in Miami-Dade County, to leave their homes as the Category 4 storm with its 155-mph winds lurched closer. In total, about 1.4 million people across Florida and Georgia, which is also in the cross hairs, were ordered to evacuate.
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