One of those 500-year hurricanes – Aerial photos from the coastal city of Fort Myers, where Hurricane Ian raged, show homes ripped off their foundations
Florida resembles a bombed area after its disastrous passage hurricane ian. According to initial reports, 15 people have died, with US President Joe Biden warning on Thursday that Ian may be the deadliest hurricane to ever hit Florida.
“I don’t have confirmed numbers, but I know for sure that the dead are hundredsLee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno told ABC’s Good Morning America. “We have thousands of people awaiting rescue and I cannot give a real estimate until we go on the ground and assess the situation in the affected areas. We can’t get to where people are, that’s the problem,” he added.
Aerial photos from the coastal city of Fort Myers, where Hurricane Ian was raging, show homes torn from their foundations amid scattered debris. Businesses near the beach were completely destroyed, leaving shattered debris. Broken docks, damaged boats.
After a tour of affected areas of the state, Gov. Ron DeSandis said some of the damage he saw was “indescribable.” “Such disasters happen only once in 500 years“, said DeSandis characteristically.
At a news conference last night he said the worst damage was in Fort Myers.
The height of the rain brought with it by the typhoon, which was running at 250 km, reached a height of 40 and in places 50 cm, but the worst for the coastal areas were the swells of the sea, which were sent into the city of Ft. Myers walls of water two meters high.
At the same time, more than 2.3 million households in Florida are without power, while over 2.5 million students were unable to go to school, with 1.7 million students missing more than three days of school.
The devastation caused by the hurricane during its sweeping passage is incalculable and the images of flooded areas of Florida, eerie. In the port of Fort Myers some boats sank, others washed ashore.
Ian was downgraded to a tropical storm after hitting Florida but is expected to strengthen again later today as it heads toward South Carolina. The National Hurricane Center based in Miami has issued a warning for all the coasts of this State.
At the same time, the search continues to locate 20 migrants who were on board a boat that sank on Wednesday off the coast of the Kis archipelago, just outside the path of the cyclone.
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