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Some 2.4 million homes and businesses are without electricity after one of the worst storms in years.

According to news agency AFP, some neighbourhoods in the city of 80,000 had been left resembling lakes. You can also get in touch in the following ways: Two people are understood to have been killed in Cuba and more than 20 Cuban migrants are believed to be missing at sea. Please include your name, age and location with any submission. If you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the Cuba's western coast was hit by Hurricane Ian on Tuesday. "Rain shooting like needles. My street is a river," he said in a text message to the In Lee County - the south-west region where Ian made landfall - police were prevented from responding to reports of looting at a petrol station because of the storm damage. "We are going to get the majority of the rain and the higher winds starting about 20:00, and they are going to last throughout the night," Jane Castor said during a Wednesday evening briefing. One of the most dangerous storms to hit the US in years has left 2.4 million homes and businesses in Florida without power and floodwaters surging inland. However, Floridians were warned that the most dangerous 24 hours lay ahead and the mayor of Tampa urged people to shelter in place through the night into Thursday morning.

Massive storm surges caused by the hurricane—which hit the Florida coast with sustained wind speeds of 150 miles per hour—has resulted in massive flooding in ...

Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin also [declared](https://www.governor.virginia.gov/newsroom/news-releases/2022/september/name-940407-en.html) a state of emergency on Wednesday as remnants of the storm are expected to bring rains and flooding to parts of the state. This is slightly lower than [previous estimates](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-27/hurricane-ian-threatens-to-overshadow-andrew-s-devastation) of $60-70 billion made by the same group as the storm has been slightly weaker than anticipated. While the impact on the other states is expected to be milder, Ian could still cause storm surges and heavy rain in the region. After it crosses over Florida on Thursday, Ian will move into the Atlantic Ocean before hitting the coasts of Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina as a tropical storm. [governors](https://governor.sc.gov/news/2022-09/state-agencies-preparing-potential-impact-hurricane-ian) [of the](https://gov.georgia.gov/press-releases/2022-09-27/gov-kemp-issues-state-emergency-ahead-hurricane-ian) [three states](https://governor.nc.gov/news/press-releases/2022/09/28/governor-cooper-issues-state-emergency-advance-severe-weather) have declared a state of emergency. As of 5 a.m.

A flooded street is seen in downtown as Hurricane Ian makes landfall in southwestern Florida, in Fort Myers, Florida, U.S. September 28, 2022. Marco Bello | ...

Lee County Manager Roger Desjarlais said Wednesday evening the damage is extensive in the county, which includes Cayo Costa, Fort Myers and Cape Coral. Photos and videos on social media showed scenes of devastation: Orlando inundated by floodwater, boats wrecked in Fort Myers, trees snapped like toothpicks in Punta Gorda. [Georgia](https://gov.georgia.gov/press-releases/2022-09-27/gov-kemp-issues-state-emergency-ahead-hurricane-ian), [South Carolina](https://governor.sc.gov/news/2022-09/state-agencies-preparing-potential-impact-hurricane-ian) and [North Carolina](https://governor.nc.gov/news/press-releases/2022/09/28/governor-cooper-issues-state-emergency-advance-severe-weather) have declared states of emergency ahead of the storm's arrival. Florida Gov. [poweroutage.us](https://poweroutage.us/area/state/florida) put the number of Florida customers without electricity at more than 2.5 million early Thursday. The full scope of the impact was not known as the storm and winds still raged. Central and northeast Florida could get 20 inches of rain, and life-threatening storm surge remained a risk for parts of Florida's western and eastern coasts, the hurricane center said. Ron DeSantis said the storm would rank as "one of the top five hurricanes to ever hit the Florida peninsula." Ian had maximum sustained winds of near 65 mph with higher gusts early Thursday as it moved slowly through central Florida on its way to the western Atlantic, according to the National Hurricane Center. "Watching the water from my condo in the heart of downtown, watching that water rise and just flood out all the stores on the first floor, it was heartbreaking," Anderson said. [told NBC's "TODAY" show](https://www.today.com/news/climate/fort-myers-mayor-hurricane-ian-rcna49942) that Ian was one of the most ferocious storms he had witnessed in decades, gutting him emotionally. Florida woke up Thursday to the catastrophic aftermath of Hurricane Ian.

Hurricane Ian approached Florida's Gulf Coast on Wednesday as a powerful storm just one rating shy of the highest category designation given to storms in ...

Storm strength is defined by the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, which assesses hurricane systems on a rating between 1 and 5, according to the National Hurricane Center. Hurricanes rated a 3 or higher are considered major storms. It does not consider other factors such as storm surges, rain flooding and tornadoes.

The storm dumped as much as a foot of rain on some cities as it barreled across the Florida Peninsula. It was forecast to bring severe rain and wind for at ...

As much as 12 to 18 inches of rain could fall across central and northeast Florida, with the possibility of 30 inches in some spots. Some areas of Fort Myers are under three to four feet of water, and the city is responding to fires, extensive flooding and life-threatening conditions, the city said in a Facebook post Wednesday night. The airport had remained open as Hurricane Ian approached and had said it would try to stay open. Half of the streets are not passable due to high water and tides may raise the water level further. The post asked residents to conserve water and resepct the curfew. Large parts of the state will be feeling the impacts of the flooding for days and possibly up to a week, Mr. Thursday, Horse Creek near the city of Arcadia had swelled to 20.45 feet, setting a record. The declaration allows the state to mobilize resources and equipment needed for response and recovery efforts. Ian barreled across the Florida peninsula early Thursday, dumping as much as a foot of rain on some cities, causing severe flooding and knocking out power to millions of customers. Rivers, streams and creeks inland will be overrun, but unable to drain out to sea because of the The storm has caused widespread flooding and storm surge, and forecasters are predicting more rain over the next few days. It was forecast to bring severe rain and wind to the state for at least another day before moving north.

Now that Ian has hit land, some of the biggest risks involve water (rather than wind), including flooding and storm surges. Climate change appears to have ...

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UNITED STATES: Hurricane Ian flooded cities, turned out the lights on millions, and left migrants from an overturned boat missing on Thursday as Flori...

The US Border Patrol said that a boat carrying migrants sank at sea during the hurricane, leaving 20 missing. Ian had plunged all of Cuba into darkness Tuesday, after battering the country's west as a Category 3 storm and downing the island's power network. The storm was set to move off the east-central coast of Florida later Thursday and emerge into the Atlantic before blowing through Georgia and the Carolinas to the north. “Some slight re-intensification is forecast, and Ian could be near hurricane strength when it approaches the coast of South Carolina on Friday,“ according to the NHC. The National Hurricane Center (NHC) downgraded Ian to a tropical storm, but said it was causing “catastrophic flooding” and forecast further “life-threatening” floods, storm surge and high winds in Florida as well as Georgia and South Carolina. UNITED STATES: Hurricane Ian flooded cities, turned out the lights on millions, and left migrants from an overturned boat missing on Thursday as Florida assessed damage from one of the most intense US storms in years.

VENICE: Rescue workers and residents of Florida's Gulf Coast searched for missing people and picked up the pieces from wrecked homes today after Hurricane ...

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Streaming with multiple cameras, Severe Studios, a camera at Fort Myers Beach in Florida went viral amid flooding from Hurricane Ian.

A clip tweeted by meteorologist Micheal Bettes had more than 5 million views within six hours of its posting. Thank you for your service" and "Cam 9 went 6 rounds with a heavyweight. Live commenters reacted once the camera went offline, with comments like "RIP Cam 9. "I think we have gone almost completely underwater. [Flooded homes, hospital damaged as Hurricane Ian continues to wallop Florida](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/09/29/hurricane-ian-live-updates-damage-forecast-florida/10457271002/) [was caught on a storm chaser's live stream](https://bit.ly/3xY69Uc) as [Hurricane Ian](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/09/29/hurricane-ian-live-updates-damage-forecast-florida/10457271002/) neared landfall on Wednesday.

Hurricane Ian has weakened to a tropical storm and is still expected to produce strong winds, heavy rains and storm surge across portions of Florida, according ...

Hurricane-force winds are expected to continue along the east-central Florida coast through Thursday. It is moving off the east-central coast of Florida and emerging into the western Atlantic later Thursday. We will continue to monitor and update the UF community as Hurricane Ian makes its way over the Florida peninsula. Alachua County is under a tropical storm watch. Hurricane Ian has weakened to a tropical storm and is still expected to produce strong winds, heavy rains and storm surge across portions of Florida, according to the Wednesday, 5 a.m. The weather in Northeast Florida will deteriorate, according to forecasters at the National Weather Service office in Jacksonville.

Although 2.5 million people were under mandatory evacuation orders, some residents stayed put. Others hosted or attended hurricane parties. A hurricane party is ...

Which ones do you score the highest in?](https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/10/harvard-psychologist-types-of-intelligence-where-do-you-score-highest-in.html) "People said it felt selfish to leave when they knew people who couldn't get out," she says. Especially when the reality is evacuation, something that can be inconvenient and expensive. Here's the rarest one—and why psychologists say they outperform everyone else](https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/17/the-rarest-type-of-employees-and-why-psychologists-say-they-are-smartest-and-most-successful.html) [The most emotionally intelligent people have these 12 traits. "The horrors of experiencing water damage. "People will remember facts about the hurricane, but what fades from memory fastest is the emotional memory," he says.

Record-high storm surges: The storm surge from Hurricane Ian hit up to 12 feet in some places, while multiple areas, including Punta Gorda, Port Charlotte, Fort ...

DeSantis is also asking Biden to grant FEMA the authority to provide 100% federal cost share for debris removal and emergency protective measures for the first 60 days from Ian’s landfall. Lee County Utilities issued a systemwide boil-water notice for all customers effective immediately due to the impacts of the hurricane, according to county officials. Hurricane conditions are also possible in those areas. Ron DeSantis has requested President Joe Biden approve a major disaster declaration for all 67 counties in the state, his office said in a news release. “Ian is going to be a life-changing event. Based on wind speed, Ian tied with 2004’s Hurricane Charley as the strongest storm to make landfall on the west coast of the Florida Peninsula, both with 150-mph winds at landfall. Governors in Georgia, Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina have already declared states of emergency. • Record-high storm surges: Ian’s storm surge hit up to 12 feet in some places. The warnings on the east coast stretched north to Cape Lookout, North Carolina. Birgit Bodine, an internal medicine specialist at the facility, told CNN Wednesday night. “We’re coming for you, be encouraged,” he told residents Wednesday night. 911 call centers in several counties were inundated.

The spokesperson for Florida's main nursing home organization says initial reports are that facilities have weathered Hurricane Ian “as good as can be.”

In Charlotte County, Emergency Management Director Patrick Fuller expressed cautious optimism that worst-case scenarios might not have been realized. South Carolina Gov. The warm Atlantic waters are expected to help it gather strength as it curves back toward the U.S. Debris from the park collected along U.S. The Coast Guard made dozens of rescues overnight, and there are more than 800 Urban Search and Rescue team members working, the office said. — Police in historic St. We called the non emergency line and were told to wait till someone shows up. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. High tide was at 11:30 a.m., around the height of the storm. ST. ——— “Take this storm seriously,” Tecklenburg said.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis warned Hurricane Ian will leave historic devastation, as the storm batters the state with catastrophic wind and rain.

But while the Carolinas are expected to be hit, they will likely face a weaker storm than Cuba and Florida have endured. "I spend a lot of time studying hurricane damage, and I'm thinking it will be $100bn (£90bn) in damage and several hundred fatalities," said Hugh Willoughby, a meteorology professor at Florida International University. You can also get in touch in the following ways: Please include your name, age and location with any submission. "This could be the deadliest hurricane in Florida's history," he said on Thursday afternoon. "From what we're seeing now, Fort Myers beach, Bonita Beach, Naples - these places are going to look dramatically different when this is finally done," Mr Salna said. But there is little left to keep her here. If you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the "Hurricanes derive their energy from warm ocean water and the Gulf Stream is sort of the warmest ocean water around," he told the BBC. Basic rebuilding and construction efforts will take until the new year, he said, though a full recovery to the area will take "several years". "The amount of water that's been rising, and will likely continue to rise today even as the storm is passing, is basically a 500-year flooding event," he said. "We were in the bathroom and could feel the wall shaking," Tom told the BBC.

Hillsborough County, Fla. (Sept. 29, 2022) - Hillsborough County emergency officials will host a news conference at 10 a.m. today, Thursday, Sept.

Additionally, you can follow Hillsborough County on social media at Facebook, Twitter, and Nextdoor for updates. There will be a briefing from County Administrator Bonnie Wise, Hillsborough County Office of Emergency Management Director Timothy Dudley, and other officials. 29, at the Hillsborough County Public Safety Operations Complex, 9450 E. 29, 2022) - Hillsborough County emergency officials will host a news conference at 10 a.m. today, Thursday, Sept. (Sept.

Tropical Storm Ian, weakened by its devastating trip across the Florida peninsula, is expected to regain strength over the Atlantic Ocean.

Tropical-storm-force winds will start affecting Georgia and South Carolina Thursday, the NHC said. The storm is very large, putting a wide area at risk. Forecasters are warning of a dangerous storm surge and other impacts, from Florida to North Carolina. ET, Tropical Storm Ian's center was about 25 miles north-northeast of Cape Canaveral, Fla. "While we will not see the full force of Hurricane Ian the way Florida did, we could see high winds, rain, flash flooding and even tornadoes," S.C. The combination of storm surges and torrential rain could bring "considerable urban and flash flooding, especially Friday," according to the A long stretch of the coast is under warning of a life-threatening storm surge, from Palm Coast, Fla., up through the entire shorelines of Georgia and South Carolina. "Ian is expected to become a hurricane again this evening and make landfall as a hurricane on Friday," the National Hurricane Center [forecast track ](https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at4+shtml/093959.shtml?gm_track#contents)sees Ian moving out northeast over the ocean as it passes Jacksonville, before turning more to the northwest and making landfall between Savannah, Ga., and Charleston. [Current forecasts](https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCDAT4+shtml/291500.shtml?) predict it will hit South Carolina as a Category 1 storm. A hurricane warning — meaning hurricane conditions are expected within the area in the near future — is now in effect for the entire coastline of South Carolina. Ian is exiting Florida as a tropical storm — but as it moves back over the water, it will likely regain hurricane status, drawing power from the Atlantic Ocean.

Tropical Storm Ian, which pushed into the Atlantic Ocean on Thursday after battering Florida, was expected to regain strength as it turns north and make ...

[The National Weather Service said](https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCPAT4+shtml/290859.shtml) landslides were possible across the southern Appalachians, and “considerable” flash, urban and river flooding could occur this weekend across portions of the region. Hurricane conditions were also possible by late Thursday in parts of Georgia and northeastern Florida. [the state’s Department of Public Safety said](https://www.ncdps.gov/news/press-releases/2022/09/28/governor-cooper-issues-state-emergency-advance-severe-weather) on Wednesday.

Areas from northern Florida all the way up through New York City could see impacts from Ian, which has resumed strengthening.

The Tidewater region of Virginia is expected to see a widespread 4 to 6 inches of rain from Ian and its remnants, with limited coastal flooding possible in spots from Norfolk up through Williamsburg. [Tropical storm warnings](https://forecast.weather.gov/showsigwx.php?warnzone=NCZ196&warncounty=NCC031&firewxzone=NCZ196&local_place1=Harkers%20Island%20NC&product1=Tropical+Storm+Warning&lat=34.695&lon=-76.5587) and storm surge watches are up as far north as Nags Head, which the National Weather Service says could see sustained winds of 25 to 35 mph with gusts up to 45. Rainfall should extend further up the East Coast as well, with 2 to 4 inches possible into Salisbury, Md., and coastal parts of New Jersey. [#Ian] [pic.twitter.com/Je1lR5ugsp] [September 29, 2022] [Tropical storm warnings](https://forecast.weather.gov/showsigwx.php?warnzone=NCZ041&warncounty=NCC183&firewxzone=NCZ041&local_place1=Raleigh-Durham%20International%20Airport%20NC&product1=Tropical+Storm+Warning&lat=35.8795&lon=-78.7871) have also been issued for areas far inland, including out to the cities of Charlotte, Hickory, Winston-Salem and Raleigh-Durham. A “life-threatening” storm surge of 4 to 7 feet is possible within surge-prone areas, and a Further south toward the beach town of Southport, sustained winds could climb as high as 35 to 45 mph with hurricane-force gusts. Near hurricane-force winds are expected to begin along the South Carolina coastline on Friday morning, with sustained winds of 55 to 70 mph and gusts up to 90 mph forecast around Charleston. [hurricane watch](https://forecast.weather.gov/showsigwx.php?warnzone=GAZ119&warncounty=GAC051&firewxzone=GAZ119&local_place1=Tybee%20Island%20GA&product1=Hurricane+Watch&lat=32.0088&lon=-80.8426), a peak storm surge of 4 to 6 feet remains possible through Saturday morning. In these spots, 2 to 4 inches of rain is also forecast, with locally higher amounts possible, which is enough to cause significant flooding. Wind gusts of up to 60 mph remain possible, and a “life-threatening” storm surge of 4 to 6 feet may occur in surge-prone areas. All of coastal Georgia remains under storm surge warnings, with impacts from Ian expected to last into Friday night. The worst of Ian’s rainfall is expected to move offshore, but several more inches are possible northeast of Orlando through Thursday afternoon.

Hurricane and storm surge warnings have been issued for the South Carolina coast. States of emergencies have been issued in Georgia, Virginia and the Carolinas.

A large swath from Georgia to Virginia is forecast to pick up at least 2-4 inches of rain from Ian spanning Friday through the weekend, according to Accuweather. The warm Atlantic waters are expected to help it gather strength as it curves back toward the U.S. with a nasty mix of rain, wind and storm surge over the next few days, forecasters said. The Hurricane Center warned that storm surge of 6 feet or more was still possible from Daytona Beach, Florida, to north of Charleston, South Carolina. We’re still expecting quite a bit of rainfall,” Robbie Berg, senior hurricane specialist with the Hurricane Center, said. The National Weather Service’s latest forecast showed that Ian’s winds were at 70 mph, just shy of hurricane force.

Images of the destruction wrought by the ferocious winds of Hurricane Ian are being revealed Thursday as residents who opted to stay venture outside.

- Image 5 of 5 "It was pretty amazing." That was when the destruction started. According to Benham, he noticed the winds switch directions about 3 p.m. [Category 4](https://www.foxweather.com/extreme-weather/hurricane-ian-ties-4th-strongest-storm-to-make-landfall-in-florida) storm with 150-mph winds when it came ashore on Cayo Costa about 3 p.m. [FOX Weather Wire](https://www.foxweather.com/live-news/ian-batters-florida-with-damaging-winds-life-threatening-storm-surge) for live updates on Ian as it moves out of Florida.

Ian roared ashore in Florida as a Category 4 hurricane. EU officials are concerned about explosions at Nord Stream pipelines. Britain's pound weakens to a ...

This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. And then yesterday, there was a very rare intervention by the central bank here, the Bank of England, which stepped in and promised to start buying up U.K. His solution seemed to be to lower taxes slightly for everyone and lower them quite a bit, 5%, for the country's highest earners, as well as end caps on bonuses for the very top earners in the financial sector. And the new British prime minister, Liz Truss, she's been in the job less than a month and is already facing pressure from within her party to fire her finance minister. MARTIN: The country's currency, the pound, weakened to a record low against the U.S. So the British economy is in turmoil. And you are seeing counties in different parts of the state issue evacuation orders. And there will be wind and surge damage up the coast in Sarasota and as far north as St. The company is going to be deploying a large drone today, one that's larger than a private plane, to begin assessing the damage. The 911 call center was down in Lee County, one of the places that was hit hardest in the storm. So as I mentioned earlier, the storm's now downgraded to a tropical storm. But during the storm, we heard reports and saw videos of a massive storm surge in beachfront communities in Naples and Fort Myers.

Hurricane Ian left a path of destruction in southwest Florida, trapping people in flooded homes, cutting off the only bridge to a barrier island and ...

Rainfall of up to 8 inches (20.32 centimeters) threatened flooding in the Carolinas and Virginia. The sickest patients — some on ventilators — were crowded into the middle two floors as the staff prepared for storm victims to arrive, said Dr. Relieved that her mother had weathered the storm, Bomlitz was working to arrange a boat rescue. Bomlitz said her mother was supposed to evacuate but wasn’t picked up, so the anxious daughter from Las Vegas posted a plea for help on social media. “We were happy to get out,” he said after grabbing two bags of possessions when water rose to the windows in his Orlando home. Despite utter devastation in parts of Fort Myers, some people left shelters to return home Thursday afternoon. The storm flooded homes on both the state’s coasts, cut off the only bridge to a barrier island, destroyed a historic waterfront pier and knocked out electricity to 2.67 million Florida homes and businesses — nearly a quarter of utility customers. A photo the department posted on Twitter showed one firefighter carrying someone in his arms through knee-deep water. More than 800 members of federal urban search-and-rescue teams were also in the area. In the Orlando area, Orange County firefighters used boats to reach people in a flooded neighborhood. “The amount of water that’s been rising, and will likely continue to rise today even as the storm is passing, is basically a 500-year flooding event.” “We’ve never seen storm surge of this magnitude,” Florida Gov.

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Joe Biden discusses federal response with governor Ron DeSantis as power outages hit 2.6mn.

The storm, which is on track to weaken to a tropical storm, was forecast to continue lashing the state for most of Thursday before heading out into the Atlantic ...

] [Nearby ] [Fort Myers saw intense storm surge](https://twitter.com/WxBrenn/status/1575253395304288271) flooding coastal communities and the area around WINK News, a local CBS affiliate. Staff members used towels and plastic bins to try to mop up the sodden mess. [Videos showed water ](https://twitter.com/10TampaBay/status/1575287781278076932)reaching car windshields in the studio's parking lot and some of the storm surge leaking into the building. [Here's the outlook.](https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCPAT4+shtml/280856.shtml) [Hospital roof partially torn off, fire station flooded: Damage in Florida ] [Parts of Florida's Gulf Coast saw major damage as Hurricane Ian swept through the state, damaging buildings and homes and flooding communities.] [Water coursed through the streets of Naples, creating giant waves that made roads impassable and flooded the city’s fire department. "When I opened the door, my apartment was destroyed." ](https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/weather/2022/09/28/hurricane-ian-major-damage-kings-point-near-delray/10447519002/) Meteorologists with the National Hurricane Center say it will then turn northwest toward Georgia and South Carolina. "I felt things blow past my head and face," resident Jim Travis said. [See the map.](https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/graphics/2022/09/26/hurricane-tracker-where-is-ian-headed/8118340001/) [Sign up here for text updates](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2022/09/28/hurricane-ian-florida-storm-text-message-updates-sign-up-page/10450922002/) on Hurricane Ian. history](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/09/28/hurricane-ian-live-updates-tracker-path-forecast/10447576002/). [Click here for a lite version of this page with a quicker load time](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/09/28/hurricane-ian-live-update-florida/10454266002/).

A woman describes how flood waters were above waist height at her home after the hurricane hit Florida.

Images of the aftermath show a glimpse of the destruction caused by the powerful Category 4 hurricane: homes washed out, boats yanked from their moorings, ...

29, 2022, in Fla. A home burns on Sanibel Island in the wake of Hurricane Ian, Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022, in Fort Myers, Fla. Damaged homes and debris are shown in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian on Sept. Images of the aftermath show a glimpse of the destruction caused by the powerful Category 4 storm: homes washed out, boats yanked from their moorings, and decimated neighborhoods. Rescue and recovery efforts got underway after some of the more dangerous conditions subsided, but the full scope of Ian's destruction is still unclear. Carlos Osorio for NPR hide caption Carlos Osorio for NPR toggle caption

More than 2 million are without power and could be for weeks, and authorities have warned there may be numerous fatalities.

“The ambulances may be coming soon and we don’t know where to put them in the hospital at this point,” she said. “The amount of impact to these communities is going to be significant. “We’re doubled and tripled up.” “There are people I know did not evacuate,” he told CNN. And this is just off initial assessment,” he said. “I don’t think that we can quantify it yet.

Both hurricanes made landfall in southwest Florida, and with similar wind speeds. But Ian, far larger and moving more slowly, will likely cause worse ...

“Ian is very slow-moving, almost a crawl,” Chris Rothwell, lead meteorologist at the Weather Service in Key West, said. Ian was nearly double the size of Charley at landfall, when the eye of the hurricane moves ashore. As Hurricane Ian churned into Florida’s Gulf Coast on Wednesday, it evoked a 2004 hurricane, Charley, that struck the area.

PUNTA GORDA, Fla. (AP) — Rescue crews piloted boats and waded through flooded streets Thursday to save thousands of Floridians trapped after Hurricane Ian ...

Rainfall of up to 8 inches (20.32 centimeters) threatened flooding in the Carolinas and Virginia. “It doesn’t matter what the intensity of the storm is. It found three survivors, and four others swam to shore, the U.S. The sickest patients — some on ventilators — were crowded into the middle two floors as the staff prepared for storm victims to arrive, said Dr. Relieved that her mother had weathered the storm, Bomlitz was working to arrange a boat rescue. She said her 4-year-old daughter grabbed her hand and said: “I’m scared too, but it’s going to be OK.” The girl was right. Chances are your loved ones do not have ability to contact you,” said the sheriff’s office in Collier County, which includes Naples. The storm flooded homes on both of the state’s coasts, cut off the only bridge to a barrier island, destroyed a historic waterfront pier and knocked out electricity to 2.67 million Florida homes and businesses — nearly a quarter of utility customers. A photo the department posted on Twitter showed one firefighter carrying someone in his arms through knee-deep water. More than 800 members of federal urban search-and-rescue teams were also in the area. In the Orlando area, Orange County firefighters used boats to reach people in a flooded neighborhood. “The amount of water that’s been rising, and will likely continue to rise today even as the storm is passing, is basically a 500-year flooding event.”

FORT MYERS BEACH, Fla. — Emergency crews and search teams deployed across the Ian-battered flood zones of Southwest Florida on Thursday, hunting for ...

“And then it came up to here,” she said, using her cane to measure water that rose up to her shins. Navy veteran trained in search and rescue, had just moved to the area from Minneapolis two months earlier, bringing several antique cars, motorcycles and a new sedan. In South Carolina, the worst seemed yet to come. The National Hurricane Center projected a peak surge of up to 4 to 6 feet in the area. “You’re looking at a storm that’s changed the character of a significant part of our state,” DeSantis said Thursday morning in Tallahassee. Far from the bludgeoned southwest coast, Ian was still making its mark, unloading 10 to 20 inches of rain across a wide belt of Florida. His family had emerged unscathed from many storms and scares in the past, he said. On Thursday, the lifelong Naples resident emerged into a transformed city, with boats in roadways, streets underwater and homes filled with water. The three fled to the second floor. President Biden, who declared the state a major disaster area, warned of “substantial loss of life.” Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno said early Thursday that “hundreds” may have lost their lives to the wrath of Hurricane Ian, which made landfall as a Category 4 storm. Yet even as the Gulf Coast emerged from more than a day of harrowing weather, Ian made clear it was not yet finished.

In six years there have been six historic hurricanes in the continental United States, all which intensified quickly before making landfall.

“I would say one of the most worrying things about climate change is a change in extremes,” said Balaguru. “The models are just better.” Vertical wind shear — changing wind speeds and direction at different altitudes in a storm — is also a key influence on the intensity of hurricanes, although researchers are still deciphering any long-term trends. On Friday morning, well before Ian approached the Cayman Islands and Cuba, forecasters warned it would likely feed off warm Gulf of Mexico waters and become a major hurricane approaching Florida within five days. And, Klotzbach added, a period of rapid strengthening is almost a prerequisite for a storm to become among the most powerful hurricanes. Hurricane Harvey showered more than 60 inches of rain in some parts of southeastern Texas because it stalled over the region for nearly two days. [study published earlier this year](https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL095774) found that since 1990, a steadily growing number of global tropical cyclones have undergone what the study called “extreme rapid intensification,” with winds increasing by at least 50 knots, or 57 mph, within a 24-hour period. Those differences drive winds around the globe, pushing around weather systems, including hurricanes, like corks in a stream. “And that is a bit disconcerting.” One comparable period of hurricane activity came from 1945 to 1950, when five Category 4 hurricanes hit Florida in six years, making Klotzbach reluctant to call the series of intense storms since 2017 unprecedented. Ian was only the latest case when its winds nearly doubled within a 24-hour period, going from a low-end hurricane with sustained 75 mph winds Monday to a Category 3 storm with 125 mph winds Tuesday. Sixteen of the last 20 hurricanes in the Atlantic basin have undergone rapid intensification.

Follow AP's live coverage of Hurricane Ian, which slammed into Cuba and Florida as one of the most powerful hurricanes to ever hit the U.S..

Phil Murphy said Thursday that he’s calling up 135 National Guard members to send to Florida. State Emergency Management Director Will Ray said widespread power losses and evacuations weren’t anticipated at this time. “Not only from the perspective of patient care but also for fire protection.” The storm is forecast to make landfall midday Friday as a Category 1 hurricane. People are amazing.” Locals captured video and photos of the destruction Thursday afternoon as waters rose and crashed onto the pier, leaving debris on the shoreline. He said the state would also send additional boats to the area for rescue operations. Ron DeSantis said at a press conference Thursday evening there had been 700 confirmed rescues across the state in the wake of the storm. NORTH PORT, Fla. ___ Officials with the Volusia County sheriff’s office said the man went outside to drain his pool and fell into a canal. Medical examiners determined that his death was storm-related.

The extent of the damage was difficult to comprehend, even for residents who had survived and rebuilt after other powerful storms.

Elsewhere in the complex, Sarah Walters, 41, arrived in flip-flops and cutoff shorts to assess the damage to her mother’s house. At the Avante, an assisted-living facility in Orlando, rescuers sloshed through floods to evacuate the facility’s 100 residents, carrying some out on stretchers as rain and wind whirled around them. On both the east and west coasts, beachside bars, boardwalks and piers that had been bustling with tourists a week ago were now a wasteland of muddy debris. In Naples Park, Joe Lema, 76, and his wife, Joyce, 70, spent four hours trapped inside their house by the force and weight of the rising water outside. Aldridge had lost everything in Hurricane Irma in 2017, and was now facing the prospect of starting over, once again. When a flicker of cell service returned on Thursday evening, her brother, Chip Aldridge, 56, recounted how he, his fiancée and dog, Kobi, had walked two miles through the storm and ended up at a La Quinta Inn, where they were now staying because their apartment was a mildewy shambles. [Florida’s southwest coast](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/28/us/hurricane-ian-florida-storm-surge.html?action=click&pgtype=Article&state=default&module=styln-hurricane-ian&variant=show®ion=MAIN_CONTENT_1&block=storyline_top_links_recirc)was a place to escape the chaos. The scale of the wreckage was staggering, even to Florida residents who had survived and rebuilt after other powerful hurricanes. Cell service was spotty or nonexistent up and down the coast, another agonizing impediment to residents’ efforts to seek help or reach missing family members. DeSantis said there had been “biblical” storm surge on Sanibel Island, normally a tourist haven of gleaming beaches and mangroves southwest of Fort Myers. The sheriff in Volusia County, near Orlando on the state’s east coast, said by text message that the coastal county was seeing “unprecedented flooding.” Mr. In North Fort Myers, where Marion Burkholder, 84, survived the storm by clambering into a dinghy inside a neighbor’s screened-in porch and floating up with the rising waters, Thursday brought dreaded news.

Tropical storms are increasingly likely to batter the US as oceans warm—and will continue to wreak havoc so long as climate change remains unaddressed.

This means that hurricane-prone regions in the US could see more storms with winds exceeding 130 mph, powerful enough to rip the roof off a building, uproot trees, and cut off power. Here, thunderstorms are a daily occurrence, and if enough form in a small area, they can begin to fall in toward each other and rotate. He and his colleagues are joining the dots to predict how hurricanes are changing as the world warms.

As flooding traps people in their homes, the storm is now taking aim at South Carolina.

You can also get in touch in the following ways: If you do not know how to climb a ladder. "If you do not know how to use a chainsaw. "It was terrifying, because you're helpless", one of the residents, Kim said. Please include your name, age and location with any submission. it was brutal". "I am committed to you and the recovery of the island, we will stand by you no matter how long it takes to get it done." "To the people of Puerto Rico, we have not gone away," President Biden said on Thursday, speaking at the headquarters of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) in Washington DC. If you do not know the difference between a cable line and a power line, you should not be doing that." Some parts of Naples, a seaside city south of Fort Myers, have been rendered a dark and deserted ghost town, and the city's iconic pier has been smashed in half. "To see a house just sitting in the middle of Estero Bay, literally must have gotten picked up, flown because of the massive wind speed and the storm surge and deposited in a body of water," he said. Joe Biden has warned the category one storm could be the deadliest hurricane in Florida's history, with a "substantial loss of life".

FORT MYERS, Fla. (Reuters) - A resurgent Hurricane Ian barreled north on Friday toward a second landfall in South Carolina, a day after carving a path of ...

Edisto Beach, South Carolina, a resort destination about 30 miles south of Charleston, was expected to see a 4- to 7-foot surge. Hundreds of miles of coastline, stretching from Georgia to North Carolina, was under a hurricane warning. Charleston is particularly at risk; a city-commissioned report released in November 2020 found about 90% of all residential properties were vulnerable to storm surge flooding. The hurricane was forecast to hit near low-lying Charleston, South Carolina, about 2 p.m. mainland, became more apparent on Thursday as emergency crews began reaching stranded residents, though the death toll remained uncertain. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said.

Hurricane Ian had weakened to a Category 1 late Wednesday, but the powerful storm that caused life-threatening storm surges, floods that stranded people in.

Lee County Manager Roger Desjarlais said Wednesday evening the damage is extensive in the county, which includes Cayo Costa, Fort Myers and Cape Coral. Central and northeast Florida could get 20 inches of rain, and life-threatening storm surge remained a risk for parts of Florida’s western and eastern coasts, the hurricane center said. “At a minimum, it’s going to be a very strong Category 4 that’s going to rank as one of the top five hurricanes to ever hit the Florida peninsula,” he said. Ron DeSantis said the intensity of the storm will be historic. The full scope of the impact was not known as the storm and winds still raged. Though Ian was expected to continue to weaken, the hurricane center cautioned that it could be near hurricane strength when it moved over Florida’s east coast Thursday. Around 2.4 million customers in Florida were without power early Thursday after Ian struck the state’s western coast, causing a path of destruction as it moved toward the Atlantic Ocean. The storm is believed to be one of the strongest hurricanes ever recorded making landfall in Florida. Thursday morning, the storm was around 55 miles southwest of Cape Canaveral Ian had maximum sustained winds of near 65 mph with higher gusts early Thursday as it moved slowly through central Florida on its way to the western Atlantic, according to the National Hurricane Center. - Hurricane Ian had weakened to a tropical storm with maximum sustained winds of near 65 mph Thursday By 5 a.m., Ian was around 55 miles southwest of Cape Canaveral and moving northeast at 9 mph, the hurricane center said.

Hurricane Ian is expected to make landfall in South Carolina as a Category 1 storm on Friday.

It made landfall along Florida’s Gulf Coast as a Category 3, weakened to a Category 2 and restrengthened to a Category 3 over the Atlantic. An example of a storm landfalling on Florida’s West Coast and restrengthening over the Atlantic was Hurricane Wilma in 2005. The NWS said they don’t expect water levels from Ian to reach Matthew-like levels, but they could be significant. The NHC expects winds upwards of 80 mph, a storm surge of between 4 – 7 feet and rains that could be between 6 – 12 inches. The National Weather Service says when the gauge reaches 8 feet, widespread flooding occurs in downtown Charleston with numerous roads flooded and impassable. Savannah’s highest crest happened during Hurricane Matthew of 2016. If a storm does not lollygag over land and makes it back over the warm water, the system can restrengthen. Hurricane Ian has South Carolina in its sight and is expected to make landfall as a Category 1 storm on Friday. The Palmetto State sees tropical weather impacts nearly every season but the last hurricane to make a direct landfall was Hurricane Matthew. Damage from the storm was estimated at $10.3 billion. Despite being a weak tropical cyclone, Colin produced more than half a foot of rain that quickly flooded some streets in downtown Charleston. Tropical Storm Colin was about as weak as you will ever see a named storm.

As Florida contends with the ruinous damage left behind by Hurricane Ian in what officials say is likely the largest natural disaster in the state's history ...

The coastlines along Georgia and South Carolina may sustain significant alterations because the powerful waves and storm surges brought by Ian could inundate coastal sand dunes, according to the US Geological Survey. In Lee County, a hospital system had to evacuate more than 1,000 patients after its water supply was cut off, while other widespread evacuations have been reported in prisons and nursing homes. Some standing water was electrified, they said. And officials are warning it will be a long road to recovery. NASA's Artemis I rocket rolls back to the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Tuesday. People play dominoes by flashlight during a blackout in Havana, Cuba, on Wednesday. She is an artist and was salvaging what she could from her home. She said the boat floated in around 7 p.m. Brenda Brennan sits next to a boat that pushed up against her apartment building in Fort Myers on Thursday. A tornado spawned by the hurricane left residents homeless. A causeway to Florida's Sanibel Island is seen on Thursday. Photos: Hurricane Ian pummels Florida

Ian is expected to make landfall near Charleston, S.C., as a Category 1 hurricane around midday Friday.

Ron DeSantis (R) said there was no confirmed death toll as of Thursday evening but that authorities “absolutely expect to have mortality from this hurricane.” [Search efforts continue](https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/09/29/hurricane-ian-rescues-victims/?itid=hp-top-table-main-t-2&itid=lk_inline_manual_4), with more than 700 confirmed rescues so far. [veered north of Florida](https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2022/09/24/ian-storm-tracker-map/?itid=lk_inline_manual_4). President Biden declared an emergency in South Carolina hours ahead of Ian’s expected landfall as a Category 1 hurricane near Charleston around midday Friday.

Ian is one of the five worst hurricanes in America's recorded history. That's not a fluke – it's a tragic taste of things to come.

Tampa Bay [has dodged](https://www.tampabay.com/news/weather/hurricanes/tampa-bay-dodged-a-bullet-as-isaac-passes-us-by/1248204/) [multiple bullets](https://patch.com/florida/across-fl/hurricane-irma-cleanup-begins-tampa-bay-residents-businesses) in recent years in the form of major hurricanes that ultimately weakened or swerved away from the city. She publishes [Quick Facts](https://www.sciline.org/resource-list/climate-communication/)on the links between climate change and extreme weather events The climate provisions of the recently passed Inflation Reduction Act are [a great start](https://kleinmanenergy.upenn.edu/news-insights/policy-insights-from-the-inflation-reduction-act/), but they’re not adequate on their own for the US to meet its obligations to cut carbon emissions in half by 2030. Stronger storms can [entrain more moisture](https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/10/191029182459.htm) into them – a [double whammy](https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/09/15/opinion/hurricane-ida-was-shot-across-earths-bow/) that produced the record flooding we saw in Philadelphia a year ago with Hurricane Ida, and the flooding we saw with Harvey in Texas in 2017 and Florence in the Carolinas in 2018, the [two worst flooding events](https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/3-Highest-Volume-US-Rainfall-Events-Record-Have-Happened-Past-3-Years) on record in the US. [make it particularly vulnerable](https://www.tampabay.com/opinion/2019/11/12/for-florida-dangerous-climate-change-has-arrived-column/) to a landfalling major hurricane. [from government scientists](https://www.sfgate.com/weather/article/CNN-s-Don-Lemon-has-testy-exchange-with-NOAA-17472764.php), the old saw that we cannot link individual hurricanes to climate change. Since the power of the storm increases roughly the wind speed not only squared but raised to the third power, that amounts to a roughly 44% increase in the destructive potential of these storms. One [study](https://insideclimatenews.org/news/14092018/hurricane-florence-climate-change-rainfall-storm-surge-risk-attribution-forecast/) found, for example, that the devastating flooding from Hurricane Florence as it made landfall in North Carolina four years ago was as much as 50% greater and 80 km (50 miles) larger due to the warmer ocean. But it’s not – it’s part of a larger pattern of stronger hurricanes, typhoons and superstorms that have emerged as the oceans continue to set [record levels of warmth](https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/11/world/oceans-warmest-on-record-2021-climate/index.html). [five most powerful hurricanes](https://www.msnbc.com/hallie-jackson/watch/hurricane-ian-is-fifth-most-powerful-storm-in-terms-of-speed-to-ever-hit-u-s-149459013901) in recorded history to strike the US, and with its 150 mile per hour winds at landfall, [it tied with 2004’s Hurricane Charley](https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/28/weather/hurricane-ian-unprecedented-climate/index.html) as the strongest to ever hit the west coast of Florida. It also leads to the sort of rapid intensification we increasingly see with these storms, where they balloon into major hurricanes in a matter of hours. That means that storms are less likely to churn up colder waters from below, inhibiting one of the natural mechanisms that dampen strengthening.

One of the fiercest storms to hit the US swept ashore, making landfall 125 miles south of Tampa Bay, and hit Fort Myers.

Many were relying on food they had stored in coolers and were trying to conserve drinking and showering water. Back in Fort Myers and nearby Naples on Florida’s south-west coast, facing the Gulf of Mexico, many buildings have been completely flattened. He said the coast there was hit with “a huge, huge wallop” and was wrecked by the ravages of winds up to 125mph and storm surges higher than anyone had seen before. Forecasters expect Ian to strengthen again over Florida’s Atlantic coast and make landfall for a third time in South Carolina on Friday morning. Falling trees, there are a lot of hazards right now,” he said. [fiercest storms ever](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/29/florida-rescue-crews-search-residents-trapped-hurricane-ian-floods) to hit the US swept ashore on Wednesday, after [obliterating electrical power](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/28/cuba-hurricane-ian-blackout-electricity) in Cuba, it made landfall 125 miles south of Tampa and hit Fort Myers.

'Part of your job, even as a journalist, is becoming something of a first responder.'

“That’s the new challenge to newsrooms,” Heithaus said. They needed to file stories about what they had seen earlier in the day. Anchors Lois Thomas and Chris Cifatte and chief meteorologist Matt Devitt continued to broadcast on Facebook for a while, but the station is currently offline. Heithaus said journalists at the nearby Fort Myers News-Press do not have access to a newsroom, either, since the owner of the building housing their offices locked it up as a hurricane precaution. Heithaus and Cimini tried to help the trio, creating a makeshift rope for them to hold onto. “We’re having a really hard time communicating with one another because cells are down in most of those counties,” Cimini said. “It’s very unnerving, but the reason we’re all in this business, I think, is to help people.” Asked if she knew who else from her newsroom was reporting in the field, Cimini said she wasn’t sure. Finally, she went to a nearby fire department and pleaded with them to help her friend. Hundreds of houses in the area flooded, including one belonging to a friend of Heithaus. The area down the road from Cimini’s place was a “complete disaster,” she said. The walkway of the pier where people had gathered had been completely [destroyed](https://twitter.com/jdrudd/status/1575547398876647425).

With the hurricane barreling toward their stretch of the Florida coast on Tuesday afternoon, Amanda Mahr and her husband, Matthew Mahr, got an urgent call ...

Nearby hospitals in the same health system were having to evacuate patients Thursday because of problems with water and power supply. Around 2:30 p.m., with their almost-6-hour-old baby, the Mahrs and other expectant mothers and parents with newborns were shuffled into the hallways to ride out the worst of the storm away from any windows. “He’s literally the talk of the hospital because he’s so chunky and so cute,” said Ms. They rushed to the hospital through a drizzle and under slate-gray skies, nervously eyeing neighbors in Cape Coral who were putting up shutters in last-minute preparations. Hurricane or not, the baby was going to have to come. For hours, they listened through the closed doors to pummeling rain, howling wind, thrashing trees.

A revived Hurricane Ian set its sights on South Carolina's coast Friday, with forecasters predicting a storm surge and floods.

Hours after weakening to a tropical storm while crossing the Florida peninsula, Ian regained hurricane strength Thursday evening over the Atlantic. National Guard troops were being positioned in South Carolina to help with the aftermath, including any water rescues. The road into Fort Myers was littered with broken trees, boat trailers and other debris. In the Fort Myers area, the hurricane ripped homes from their slabs and deposited them among shredded wreckage. The hurricane warning stretched from the Savannah River to Cape Fear, with flooding likely across the Carolinas and southwestern Virginia, the center said. Ian had come ashore Wednesday on Florida's Gulf Coast as a monstrous Category 4 hurricane, one of the strongest storms ever to hit the U.S. The hurricane tore through the park of about 60 homes, leaving many destroyed or mangled beyond repair, including Goodison's single-wide home. Goodison said he was alive only because he rode out the storm at his son's house inland. Coast Guard, the National Guard and urban search-and-rescue teams. Ron DeSantis said at least 700 rescues, mostly by air, were conducted on Thursday involving the U.S. With winds holding at 85 mph (140 kph), the National Hurricane Center's update at 5 a.m. On Friday morning in Charleston, powerful wind gusts bent tree branches and sent sprays of steadily falling rain sideways.

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[Read more](https://indianexpress.com/article/world/last-days-outback-town-breath-toxic-8181681/) [200 environmental activists killed globally in 2021](https://indianexpress.com/article/world/report-200-environmental-activists-killed-globally-in-2021-8179633/) [cancer](https://indianexpress.com/about/cancer/). In the yard below, Hartmann’s Australian sheepdog scampered after a ball, kicking up dust clouds laced with an invisible threat: blue asbestos. The hurricane was forecast to hit near low-lying Charleston, South Carolina at about 11.30 pm IST on Friday, bringing potentially life-threatening flooding, storm surges and winds. In other news, at least 200 environmental activists were killed around the world in 2021, with Mexico topping the list. The storm headed to South Carolina for a second landfall with maximum sustained wind speeds of 120 kph, as per the US National Hurricane Center.

A photo of flamingos huddled in the bathroom of a St. Petersburg, Fla., botanical garden brought back memories of past hurricanes.

“The public restrooms were perfect.” To this day, he still sees the photo during anniversaries of the hurricane. “Then all of a sudden, it just was everywhere,” Magill said. The photo has also been replicated during other major storms, like a snapshot of flamingos in a bathroom at Zoo Miami during 1999’s Hurricane Floyd. Five mammals and nearly 100 birds died, and the zoo required major repairs, Magill said. “And we realized that had we not put those flamingos in the bathroom, they would have certainly all died,” Magill said. I'll never forget capturing this image of the zoos flamingos huddled in the ladies restroom for protection.— Ron Magill (@RonMagill) Staffers placed hay on the floor, gave the birds food and water, and moved them in a day before Andrew made landfall. The storm was considered directly responsible for the deaths of 23 people and caused an estimated $26 billion in damage in the United States, It looked like “a 25-mile-wide weed whacker came through.” “So we had to be innovative.” Ian is also now considered to rank among the most powerful.

FEMA is working with federal, state, local, tribal and community partners to prepare for Hurricane Ian's landfall. Ian is predicted to bring ...

Prepare for the storm’s impact and follow instructions from local/community officials. [emergency supply kit](https://www.ready.gov/kit)for your household and [pets](https://www.ready.gov/pets). [evacuate](https://www.ready.gov/evacuation)or [shelter in place](https://www.ready.gov/shelter). [power outages](https://www.ready.gov/power-outages). Ian is predicted to bring life-threatening storm surge, with flooding and power outages. [local evacuation orders](https://www.floridadisaster.org/evacuation-orders).

Hurricane Ian swamped a Florida hospital from both above and below, the storm surge flooding its lower level emergency room while fierce winds tore part.

(Dr. Photo: Dr. Water gushed down Wednesday from above onto the ICU, forcing staff to evacuate the hospital’s sickest patients — some of them on ventilators — to other floors.

Hurricane Ian slammed into southwest Florida on Wednesday afternoon. The Category 4 hurricane, one of the biggest storms to ever hit the U.S., tore through ...

Getty Images Getty Images News Hurricane Ian brought high winds, storm surge and rain to the area causing severe damage. NAPLES, FL - SEPTEMBER 29: Ambulances line up on the shoulder after Hurricane Ian on September 29, 2022 in Naples, Florida. 29, 2022, in Orlando, Fla. Newly strengthened, Ian is now headed to the Carolinas. Winds reaching 150 mph razed houses and businesses. Severe flooding damaged homes and blocked crucial roadways, leaving many trapped.

Sea surface temperature data shows how warm ocean water near Florida fueled the storm to become one of the most powerful to strike the United States in the ...

For the most part, the most damage to life and property both during a hurricane and its aftermath comes from the flooding, not the winds, she said. In addition, storm surges are riding on top of elevated sea levels, which can worsen coastal flooding. Hurricane Harvey in 2017 surged from a Category 1 hurricane to a Category 4 overnight. Scientists say that while climate change has not necessarily increased the number of hurricanes, it has made them more powerful, as warmer ocean waters strengthen and sustain those storms. The climate phenomenon The storm brought fierce winds, unrelenting rains and catastrophic flooding to southwest Florida.

A resurgent Hurricane Ian barreled north on Friday toward a second landfall in South Carolina, a day after carving a path of destruction across central ...

Edisto Beach, South Carolina, a resort destination about 30 miles south of Charleston, was expected to see a 4- to 7-foot surge. Parts of northeast South Carolina, near Charleston, could also experience up to 8 inches of rain. Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Deanne Criswell will be in Florida on Friday. A city-commissioned report released in November 2020 found that about 90% of all residential properties were vulnerable to storm surge flooding. Hundreds of miles of coastline, stretching from Georgia to North Carolina, were under a hurricane warning. The hurricane was forecast to hit near low-lying Charleston, South Carolina, about 2 p.m. Please use caution if you must be on the roads," the department said in another tweet. "They definitely built back much better since Charley," she said. mainland, became more apparent on Thursday as emergency crews began reaching stranded residents. President Joe Biden earlier on Thursday warned that Ian could prove to be the deadliest hurricane in Florida history, saying that preliminary reports suggested a "substantial" loss of life. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said. The extent of damage in Florida, where Ian first came ashore on Wednesday as one of the most powerful storms ever to hit the U.S.

On September 29, the National Geodetic Survey (NGS) began collecting aerial damage assessment images in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian.

[National Geodetic Survey](https://geodesy.noaa.gov/) is the U.S. Aerial imagery is a crucial tool to determine the extent of the damage inflicted by flooding, and to compare baseline coastal areas to assess the damage to major ports and waterways, coastlines, critical infrastructure, and coastal communities. View tips on [how to use the imagery viewer](/hazards/emergency-response-imagery.html).

How to help people impacted by Hurricane Ian, which has hit Cuba and Florida. These organizations are providing resources, including emergency supplies, ...

They are accepting [monetary donations](https://drawbuckets.org/donate/)and [supplies](https://drawbuckets.org/donate/fill-bucket/). [It is accepting donations](https://secure.projecthope.org/site/SPageNavigator/2022_08_DPO_r1_control.html?_gl=1*1j86ku2*_ga*MTAxOTY4MjM3MS4xNjY0NTQ4MjA2*_ga_8NFJETDX8H*MTY2NDU0ODIwNi4xLjEuMTY2NDU0ODMxOC42MC4wLjA.). [They are accepting donations](https://donate.directrelief.org/give/406660/#!/donation/checkout). [It is accepting donations](https://secure.mercychefs.com/site/Donation2?df_id=2620&2620.donation=form1&mfc_pref=T). [They are accepting donations](https://convoyofhope.org/donate/disaster-services/?utm_source=coh&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=CAM-005333&utm_content=homepage). [They are accepting donations](https://donate.coreresponse.org/give/433021/#!/donation/checkout). It is accepting [donations](https://www.gofundme.com/f/operation-bbq-relief-hurricane-ian-response?utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link_all&utm_source=customer)and [volunteers](https://operationbbqrelief.org/volunteer-obr/). This hurricane comes shortly [after Hurricane Fiona ravaged Puerto Rico](https://www.thecut.com/2022/09/how-to-help-puerto-rico-after-hurricane-fiona.html). [all declaring states of emergency](https://www.axios.com/2022/09/29/live-updates-tropical-storm-ian-georgia-carolinas-thursday). On Thursday, President Joe Biden said there were early reports indicating “what may be substantial loss of life.” As of Friday morning, [there were at least four reported deaths](https://www.axios.com/2022/09/30/hurricane-ian-florida-death-toll). Storm surges and rapid coastal floods were expected to rise up to [18 feet above ground level](https://www.axios.com/2022/09/28/hurricane-ian-storm-surge-southwest-florida) — an unprecedented rate for Florida’s west coast. By Thursday, Ian had traveled up through southwest Florida, causing more destruction and [at least 2.6 million power outages](https://poweroutage.us/).

Live coverage as Hurricane Ian wreaks havoc in Florida, leaving more than two million without power.

Hours ahead of Ian's arrival, a weather buoy in the ocean southeast of Charleston recorded 75-mph winds and waves as high as 21 feet.

Road closures are [scattered around the city](https://gis.charleston-sc.gov/road-closures-regional/map/), from the central intersection of Huger and King streets to roads along the waterfront. Further inland, floods will also likely hit North Charleston, the office said. It lasts until noon — and then the hurricane will arrive. Much of the Charleston metro area is under a flash flood warning that was issued around 6 a.m. But the county had to A large swath of the coast could see storm surge waters reach 6 feet above ground, with more than 9 feet possible in some spots. It also eschewed other steps, such as offering sandbags, saying people can buy them at stores. [Charleston Police Department](https://twitter.com/CharlestonPD/status/1575792693946601472) said. [said on Thursday](https://twitter.com/GtCounty/status/1575513582267252736) that it has no plans to open shelters. [inundated wide sections of the Florida peninsula](https://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2022/09/29/1125903958/hurricane-ian-florida-photos) — and Ian is expected to [bring power outages and flooding](https://www.npr.org/live-updates/hurricane-ian-path-south-carolina-2022-09-30) to South Carolina and southeastern North Carolina when it makes landfall Friday afternoon. [National Weather Service said](https://twitter.com/databuoycenter/status/1575818976952582144). [hurricane warning](https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCPAT4+shtml/301156.shtml?) now covers all of the South Carolina coast and part of the North Carolina shore up to Cape Fear — meaning hurricane conditions are expected within that area.

By measure of sustained winds at landfall, Ian is in an eight-way tie for the fifth-strongest storm to strike the United States. Over the past two years, two ...

The strongest storm to ever strike the United States was the Labor Day Hurricane of 1935, which came ashore in Florida with sustained wind speeds of 185 miles per hour — making it a high-end Category 5 storm. history, Ian would have to beat or tie the $29 billion dollars in damage caused by Hurricane Michael, something early estimates suggest it could do. Ian’s massive size means it will bring widespread tropical-storm-force winds to both North Carolina and South Carolina. history are Hurricane Katrina ($186.3 billion), Hurricane Harvey ($148.8B), Hurricane Maria ($107.1B), Hurricane Sandy ($81.9B) and Hurricane Ida ($78.7B). By measure of sustained winds at landfall, Ian is in an eight-way tie for the fifth-strongest storm to strike the United States. [#HurricaneIan]is in a tie for 5th with multiple other hurricanes (most recent one was Ida (2021)) for strongest winds on record at landfall. According to NOAA, the To be one of the 10 costliest hurricanes in U.S. Speaking of South Carolina, if Ian makes landfall in the state as a hurricane as it is currently forecast to do on Friday afternoon, it will be the Records of hurricane intensity date back to 1851. [3-way tie for the fourth strongest hurricane](https://twitter.com/philklotzbach/status/1575204991488299010?s=20&t=5K-3iTu4KUJHnAjo7t1zWg) to ever make landfall in the state by maximum sustained winds, surpassed in order by the Labor Day Hurricane (185 mph), 1992′s Hurricane Andrew (165 mph) and 2018′s Hurricane Michael (160 mph). [#hurricanes]with max winds of 150+ mph.

Twenty-one people dead with toll expected to rise after mega-storm carves wide path of devastation in Florida.

DeSantis described Fort Myers Beach as “ground zero” for the destruction, with vast expanses of flattened buildings, and boats tossed into piles, wedged high up between houses or floating down flooded streets. [third hurricane to make landfall](https://www.dnr.sc.gov/climate/sco/hurricanes/#map) in the state in six years, after Matthew in 2016 and Isaias in 2020 both wreaked significant damage. [deadliest hurricane in Florida’s history](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/29/florida-rescue-crews-search-residents-trapped-hurricane-ian-floods)” would be lengthy. [Florida](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/florida), meanwhile, the death toll from the storm that arrived on Wednesday with 150mph winds and a storm surge of up to 18ft (5.5m) had risen to at least 21 by Friday morning, but was expected to grow further, Kevin Guthrie, the state’s director of emergency management, said. [“life-threatening” storm surge](https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCDAT4+shtml/300847.shtml?) and hurricane force winds all the way from North Carolina to the north-east Florida coast. [wide path of destruction](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/29/florida-rescue-crews-search-residents-trapped-hurricane-ian-floods) on its earlier rampage through Florida.

Cities across Florida are flooded as millions are without power after one of the strongest hurricanes ever to hit the U.S..

Orlando International Airport received 12.49 inches of rain in the 24 hours ending at 8 a.m. "Today, the most important thing we had to focus on were the people that were on the island that needed to get off. City officials said that it will be a process to get to those people still on the island due to the Sanibel Causeway collapse. "The amount of water that's been rising and will likely continue to rise today, even as the storm is passing, is basically a 500-year event," DeSantis said. In total, 28 large helicopters from the National Guard and Coast Guard are performing rescue missions, with more air assets being brought in through the day, the governor said. Across the state, more than 2 million outages have been reported with the majority of those coming from the seven Southwest Florida counties. Thousands of first responders on the ground Thursday will be busy identifying those who need help, starting the rebuilding process, restoring power and re-establishing communications. DeSantis clarified the sheriff's statement, saying the Lee County number was an "estimate" based on people who called 911 about rising water in their homes. Mayor Holly Smith said that search and rescue operations were ongoing due to the 200 households that did not evacuate. At least a dozen people have died after Hurricane Ian made landfall near Cayo Costa, Florida, on Wednesday afternoon as a catastrophic Category 4 storm. [Click here for the latest forecast, power outages and more](https://www.foxweather.com/live-news/hurricane-ian-south-carolina). Hurricane Ian landed near Cayo Costa, Florida, on Wednesday afternoon as a catastrophic Category 4 storm.

Hurricane Ian barrelled towards South Carolina on Friday after leaving a path of devastation across Florida, where officials raced to assess damage amid a ...

UNITED STATES: US forecasters expect Hurricane Ian to unleash life-threatening conditions on the Carolina states on Friday after causing devastation i...

Among them were four Cubans who swam to shore in the Florida Keys. “It was just the most horrifying sounds with debris flying everywhere, doors flying off.” “But I’m alive and that’s what matters.” “We women decided to take to the streets to empower ourselves and protest so that the electricity will be fixed,“ said the 20-year-old. “We took to the street, because we haven’t had electricity for several days and we are tired of it. The storm, one of the most powerful ever to hit the United States, left hundreds of people in need of rescue in Florida.