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Ian has sustained winds of 70 mph and the “dangerous storm surge, flash flooding and high wind threat continues,” the National Hurricane Center said in its latest bulletin. Ian is creating chaos along the South Carolina shore, where it made landfall south of Georgetown as a Category 1 hurricane Friday afternoon. Guardian reporter Dani Anguiano and the Associated Press contributed to this report.
Ian makes landfall in South Carolina as Category 1 hurricane | PBS NewsHour.
At least nine people were confirmed dead in the U. Rescue crews piloted boats and waded through riverine streets Thursday to save thousands of people trapped amid flooded homes and buildings shattered by Hurricane Ian.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Friday that rescue crews had gone door-to-door to over 3, homes in the hardest-hit areas. Among those killed were an year-old woman and a year-old man who relied on oxygen machines that stopped working amid power outages, as well as a a year-old man who was waiting to be rescued died after falling into rising water inside his home, authorities said.
Officials fear the death toll could rise substantially, given the wide territory swamped by the storm. Initial responders who come across possible remains are leaving them without confirming, he said Friday, describing as an example the case of a submerged home. At least three people were reported killed in Cuba after the hurricane struck there on Tuesday.
In Florida, businesses near Fort Myers Beach were completely razed, leaving twisted debris. Broken docks floated at odd angles beside damaged boats. Fires smoldered on lots where houses once stood. Wading through waist-deep water, Goodison and his son wheeled two trash cans containing what little he could salvage — a portable air conditioner, some tools and a baseball bat.
The road into Fort Myers Beach was littered with broken trees, boat trailers and other debris. Cars were abandoned in the road, having stalled when the storm surge flooded their engines.
Emergency crews sawed through toppled trees to reach stranded people. Many in the hardest-hit areas were unable to call for help because of electrical and cellular outages. A chunk of the Sanibel Causeway fell into the sea, cutting off access to the barrier island where 6, people live.
Hours after weakening to a tropical storm while crossing the Florida peninsula, Ian regained strength Thursday evening over the Atlantic. The National Hurricane Center predicted it would hit South Carolina as a Category 1 hurricane Friday, still much weaker than the Category 4 hurricane it was on Wednesday.
National Guard troops were being positioned in South Carolina to help with the aftermath, including any water rescues. Our hearts go out to every resident who is impacted. The Lee County Sheriffs Office is mobile and will stop at nothing to help our residents.
Parts of south-west Florida looked, in the words of one resident, like someone had dropped an atom bomb. Biden approved a major disaster declaration for the nine worst-hit Florida counties on Thursday, freeing billions of dollars of government resources to help fund recovery efforts. It also washed away parts of four piers along the coast, including two at Myrtle Beach.
Online cameras showed seawater filling neighborhoods in Garden City to calf level. As Ian moved across South Carolina, it dropped from a hurricane to a post-tropical cyclone. Ian is the third hurricane to make landfall in the state in six years, after Matthew in and Isaias in both caused significant damage. Tropical storm force winds are also expected, which authorities have warned could lead to downed power lines and trees. John Tecklenburg, the Charleston mayor, said the climate crisis had worsened the flood risk to his city, with Nasa recording an average ocean rise of one inch every year since The death toll so far of 21 and rising included confirmed and unconfirmed deaths but not yet the reported drowning of an unknown number of family members found in their home in Lee county and other unfolding tragedies elsewhere, including vehicle deaths.
Guardian reporter Dani Anguiano and the Associated Press contributed to this report.
