Tropical Storm Nicole Sweeps Across Florida, making landfall as a rare November hurricane, causing flooding and destructive coastal erosion. Several deaths have been linked to the storm. The National Hurricane Center said Nicole made landfall at 3 a.m. Eastern time south of Vero Beach, the first hurricane to come ashore on Florida's Atlantic coast since Katrina in 2005. By evening, the center of the storm was about 40 miles southeast of Tallahassee. More than 30 million people were under some type of storm-related warning, and more than 300,000 customers in Florida had lost electric power at times on Thursday, mostly in Brevard, Indian River and Volusia Counties along the state's east coast, according to poweroutage.us, a site that tracks power interruptions. By early evening, the number without power had fallen below 200,000. Four deaths have been attributed to the storm, including two people in Orange County who were electrocuted by a downed power line and two others who crashed on the Florida Turnpike.