Homes were swept off their foundations and residents who resisted evacuation orders were left begging for rescue after Hurricane Ian crashed into Florida as one of the most powerful storms on state record yesterday.
The 500 mile-wide cyclone inflicted 150mph winds and a storm surge that meteorologists warned would reach an “unsurvivable” 18ft in places, as its eye made its first US landfall on the barrier island of Cayo Costa on the state’s Gulf of Mexico coast.
“There’s going to be damage throughout the whole state,” Ron DeSantis, the governor, said.
Hurricane Ian leaves two million without power
Celia Salazar and her grandson, Ricardo, check into an emergency shelter in Largo
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A tide retreat in Charlotte Harbour, Punta Gorda, grounded boats
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The hurricane swamped a Florida hospital, flooding emergency rooms and forcing staff to evacuate patients. “We didn’t anticipate that the roof would blow off on the fourth floor,” Dr Birgit Bodine told AP, having
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2022-09-29 06:35:00Z
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