MIAMI -- 11 a.m. Update: Hurricane Jeanne is now moving to the west-northwest at 10 mph, and could reach Tampa Bay within the next couple of hours.

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Maximum sustained winds are near 75 mph with higher gusts. Jeanne is expected to weaken below hurricane strength later today. Hurricane force winds extend outward up to 70 miles from the center and tropical storm force winds extend outward up to 175 miles.

Miami-Dade and Broward counties are no longer under a hurricane warning.

A flood watch is in effect for South Florida until 6 p.m. tonight. For a complete look at the watch, warning areas, click here.

Landfall

Hammering Florida with its fourth hurricane in six weeks, Jeanne came ashore Saturday night with 120-mph winds that ripped roofs off buildings, hurled debris still stacked from previous storms and cut power to more than a million customers.

South Florida Doppler Loop

""I'm going to get out of (Florida). It's scary. It's crazy." - Charity Brown, Storm Victim

Palm fronds whipped amid waves of horizontal rain as the Category 3 storm made landfall just before midnight Saturday at Hutchinson Island near this Atlantic coast city.

It was in almost the exact spot where Hurricane Frances barreled ashore three weeks earlier. Asked if there had been other landfalls that close in place and time, National Hurricane Center Director Max Mayfield said, "First time ever that we know of."

Four hurricanes in one season represented an ordeal no state has faced since 1886, when Texas was the target. And the hurricane season runs through November.

Again with Jeanne, fatigued Floridians fled after state officials urged 2 million people to evacuate.

"Before I left home, I prayed over my house and I told God it was in his hands," said Ada Dent, who went to a shelter in West Palm Beach with her 2-year-old grandson.

The storm, which sent debris flying and crashing through deserted streets, was expected to make a turn to the north over central Florida and stay inland over Georgia and the Carolinas through Tuesday. By early Sunday, it had weakened to a Category 2 storm with 100 mph top sustained winds, but its 400-mile diameter covered most of the central part of the Florida Peninsula, including Tampa and Orlando.

Rainfall totals of 5 to 10 inches were expected in the storm's path, and flooding could be a major concern because previous hurricanes had saturated the ground and filled canals, rivers and lakes. Waves that reached up to 20 feet high offshore were also pounding the coast.

The fierce winds left much damage. Roofs were torn off houses, condominiums and other buildings, but only minor injuries were reported early Sunday. In Jensen Beach, the deserted community center was destroyed.

Parts of the waterproof roof covering at Martin Memorial Medical Center in Stuart were blown off, letting some rain seep in, administrative nursing supervisor Sharon Andre said. No injuries were reported.

Elsewhere in Stuart, part of a condominium roof collapsed. One person was rescued.

About 400 people were transferred from the special needs shelter at the Sherwood Elementary School in Melbourne after parts of its roof blew off, police Lt. Jeff Koska said. No one was injured, and the evacuees were brought to another shelter, he said.

About 100 patients at a similar shelter in Fort Pierce were transferred after its roof started leaking, but no one was injured, St. Lucie County officials said.

Earlier, Jeanne tore across the Bahamas, leaving some neighborhoods submerged under 5 feet of water. No deaths or serious injuries were reported there, but the storm was earlier blamed for more than 1,500 deaths in floods in Haiti.

Projected Path

"I really can't believe it's happening all over again -- and right in the same place," said Charity Brown, who moved to West Palm Beach from Chicago three months ago with her children, ages 5 and 3. They hid in a closet as Frances tore the roof off their apartment. That hole is now covered by a tarp, so the family went to a shelter at an elementary school Saturday.

"I'm going to get out of (Florida). It's scary. It's crazy."

In Cocoa Beach about 80 miles north of Stuart, Paul and Ann Jutras weathered another storm in their reinforced house that they claim is hurricane-proof. It's two blocks from the Atlantic Ocean and has two roofs, just in case one is damaged.

In Frances, "we got pounded for 37 hours but the wind would blow for about 20 or 25 minutes and there would be a lull. This one, it's just not letting up at all," Paul Jutras said.

Jeanne followed Charley, which struck Aug. 13 and devastated southwest Florida; Frances, which struck Labor Day weekend; and Ivan, which blasted the western Panhandle when it made landfall in nearby Alabama on Sept. 16. The storms caused billions of dollars in combined damage and killed at least 70 people in Florida alone.

Officials ran out of time to remove tall piles of debris -- from branches to sodden furniture and building materials -- that remained on neighborhood streets, left over from Frances. Some people took to burning the debris to lessen the amount that could become dangerously airborne.

Gas stations and businesses were boarded up and deserted, and law enforcement took to the radio airwaves, saying that anyone who was outside their homes after the 6 p.m. curfew Saturday would be jailed. The Sunshine Skyway bridge linking St. Petersburg to the Bradenton area was closed.

It was unknown how many of the 2 million people urged to evacuate actually did, but state officials said more than 41,000 people, many with homes already damaged by Frances, were housed in shelters.

LaTrease Haliburton reluctantly checked into a West Palm Beach shelter with her 6-year-old daughter, who has had nightmares since Frances caved in the bathroom ceiling in her family's apartment.

"I want to make sure my daughter isn't as scared this time," Haliburton said.

Atlantic Satellite

Flooding Possible

Rain bands will continue to move onshore over South Florida as Hurricane Jeanne works it way into the central part of the state. Rainfall amounts of 6 to 8 inches are expected through Monday across Palm Beach, Broward, Glades and Hendry counties, with local amounts as high as 12 inches near where the center of Jeanne passes.

Atlantic Storm Tracker

The rain with Jeanne is likely to cause extensive freshwater flooding. Rainfall amounts from 3 to 6 inches are possible and could produce flooding in low lying and poorly drained areas.

The St. Lucie Inlet and the Fort Pierce Inlet are expected to get a high water surge as the storm comes inland.

Jim Cantore, reporting for Local 10 News, said that Jeanne is the "worst storm in 70 years to hit the Treasure Coast and the Space Coast" and because people are so tired of all the storms, Cantore said, "Unfortunately, many people chose not to evacuate."

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