Mandatory evacuations have been ordered in several parts of Florida as Tropical Storm Hermine pushes closer to landfall. Flooding has already begun in several places along the state's Gulf Coast.
Gov. Rick Scott declared a state of emergency Wednesday in preparation for what was then Tropical Depression Nine. Numerous schools have been closed, and residents up and down the state's western and Gulf coast have been filling sandbags.
Officials closed Dry Tortugas National Park in the Florida Keys as well as parts of Everglades National Park in South Florida as the storm passed to the south of the mainland. It then entered the Gulf of Mexico and strengthened, becoming a tropical storm.
See the slideshow above for the most recent photos from Hermine.
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