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Florida parents escape to Northeast Georgia to deliver baby
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Emmalee Jones holds her newborn baby Dawson on Thursday at Northeast Georgia Medical Center Braselton. After finding themselves in the path of Hurricane Irma, the Jones family left Florida in hope of finding a medical facility that could take them in before Emmalee gave birth. - photo by David Barnes
With a baby due around the time Hurricane Irma was expected to hit Florida last week, Bradley and Emmalee Jones decided to evacuate their St. Petersburg home and travel to stay with her parents in Northeast Georgia. They just didn’t know Irma would take the same route they did. “I felt like she would never leave,” Emmalee Jones said Thursday. “She was like following us.”