Hurricane Idalia's wrath scars 'The Tree Capital of the South': Perry, Florida www.usatoday.com PERRY, Fla. — About 48 hours after Hurricane Idalia uprooted trees and downed power lines in the small mill town of Perry, just inland from the coast from where the storm made landfall, Jerry Wells Summed up the situation. “If you don’t have a generator, you are going to be in deep trouble,” said Wells, who expects to be without electricity for a month. Wells had filled a half-dozen 5-gallon containers with gasoline at a Citgo station along U.S. 19 and was holding a 14-gallon container steady while his spouse Anne pumped it full. Except for a six-year stint in the Air Force, Wells has spent all of his 78 years in Taylor County, part of the Big Bend where the peninsula merges into the Panhandle and where Perry, a town of about 7,000, is located. He said Idalia is the worst hurricane he has ever seen. Idalia arrived as a Category 3 hurricane with maximum sustained wi...