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You can follow the North Carolina Emergency Management on Twitter and Facebook, as well as the websites and social media pages of your county government and emergency management. You can follow the South Carolina Emergency Management Division on Twitter and Facebook, as well as the websites and social media pages of your county government and emergency management. You can follow the Georgia Emergency Management agency on Twitter and Facebook, as well as the websites and social media pages of your county government and emergency management. “If you haven’t yet made plans for every contingency, this afternoon is the time to do so,” McMaster said.
More than 1 million Florida electric customers don’t have power
"Instead of an arrow, we have hazard events like hurricanes and tornadoes. Instead of having targets, we are the targets — our cities, our developed areas. And nowhere is that more readily seen than along our coastlines," Strader said. "A lot has happened overnight and early this morning, and unfortunately, none of it is good news," Jamie Rhome said by way of opening remarks. Key West International Airport, Southwest Florida International Airport in Fort Myers, and Tampa International Airport are all closed to the public. “Breaks in the weather do not mean the storm has passed,” Pinellas officials said. Do not attempt to relocate to a county emergency shelter or any other location.
Hurricane Ian officially makes landfall in southwest Florida
The Category 4 storm slammed the coast with 150 mph (241 kph) winds and pushed a wall of storm surge accumulated during its slow march over the Gulf. More than 2 million Florida homes and businesses were without electricity, according to PowerOutage.us. A boat carrying Cuban migrants sank Wednesday in the stormy weather in waters east of Key West.
Nearly 2.2 million customers are without power across Florida
It seems like the county has been working to try and lay on some extra capacity while people whose homes get reconnected. Mr. Ochoa said everyone was calling him on Wednesday to come work and help clean up the masses of broken tree branches that were now peppering the city. His car started up, despite having spent the night in standing water, but it was still surrounded by water and he was unable to move it. Airbnb offers refunds for a number of “events beyond your control,” including natural disasters such as volcanic eruptions.
Hurricane Ian damage, impact in cities across Florida - Tallahassee Democrat
Hurricane Ian damage, impact in cities across Florida.
Posted: Thu, 29 Sep 2022 07:00:00 GMT [source]
All of South Carolina's coast is now under a hurricane warning
"We are also very thankful that the Tampa Bay area was spared the most damaging consequences of this powerful storm," the statement continues. "Our thoughts and prayers remain with the many thousands in the Southwest Florida region who have been severely impacted by Hurricane Ian," the franchise said in its statement. Lee County officials are also working to increase water, ice and food supplies throughout the county, according to Desjarlais.
Lee County said it would connect 911 callers with medical staff if high winds prevented first responders from attending to the emergency in person. Hurricane Ian still has sustained winds of 155 mph – which is a category four "major hurricane." Cape Coral, on Florida’s southwestern coast, suspended emergency services and closed city offices, while Lee County canceled school.
Ian swamps southwest Florida, trapping people in homes
Florida is expected to receive 10 to 20 inches of rain for this event, along with six to nine feet of storm surge, and wind gusts over 100 mph. Ian is now projecting tropical storm-force winds up to 415 miles from its center. The storm currently has maximum sustained winds of 65 mph, with gusts as high as 70 mph. It’s heading northeast at only 8 mph, a slow pace that heightens the risk of flood-inducing rainfall. “If you haven’t yet made plans for every contingency, this afternoon is the time to do so,” McMaster said in a news release.
Hurricane Ian has dropped down to Category 2 as it moves over the Florida peninsula, but forecasters are warning that the massive storm will likely dump heavy rain on inland communities, causing widespread flooding. Jacksonville International Airport has canceled all its flights for Thursday and closed its terminal. The airport had remained open as Hurricane Ian approached and had said it would try to stay open. City water service has been restored, but for the next three days residents should still continue to boil water before consuming it, the city said. Officials in North Port, Florida, issued a citywide curfew for residents Thursday night amid flooding from Hurricane Ian.
After devastating Florida, Ian becomes a hurricane again and heads for South Carolina: Live updates
WCNC Charlotte chief meteorologist Brad Panovich said Charleston reported wind gusts as high as 56 mph as Ian moved closer to landfall. Charleston was already starting to flood early Friday, with WCNC Charlotte's Vanessa Ruffes reporting knee-high floodwaters near the Battery at Charleston Harbor. Low-lying areas were underwater, with officials encouraging people to seek higher ground due to the flooding risk. Thousands of Duke Energy customers were without power in the Charlotte area as of Saturday morning, according to Duke Energy's outage map.
Firefighters in Naples, Fla., waded through waist-high water to unload their fire truck after the garage at the station was flooded. At the Silver Star, a lovely little neighborhood where fresh paint coats the corrugated tin walls and the mobile homes feature elaborate porches and carports, few residents seemed interested in heeding that warning. The area’s Latino residents have been growing in numbers, and big new corporate arrivals like Hertz and a medical-device manufacturer have revved up an economy that is still powered by tourism and housing. Ms. Dudley said streets were flooding, cars were floating and fishermen were anxious about whether their boats had survived. Sheriff Marceno said that his department was receiving lots of 911 calls and that hundreds of deputies were waiting to help as soon as the wind fell to a safe level. “The second it goes under 45 m.p.h., we get back out there,” he said.
Allan says there are reports of flooding in the Orlando area already, and that some areas in central and northeastern Florida could see more than two feet. About 75% of the power outages are concentrated across seven southwest Florida counties nearest where the hurricane came ashore. Additional outages in central and northeast Florida, where the hurricane continued after making landfall, could add to the total over the course of the day.
The governors of Virginia, Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina all preemptively declared states of emergency. Forecasters predicted Ian will turn toward those states as a tropical storm, likely dumping more flooding rains into the weekend, after crossing Florida. The storm surge flooded a hospital’s lower level emergency room in Port Charlotte, while fierce winds tore part of its fourth floor roof from its intensive care unit, according to a doctor who works there. A tropical storm warning was issued for the area around Charlotte, which will see rain move in Friday morning.
So there was some concern that people would be moved so far away from home, that they would have to burn through gasoline and time just to come back and get their stuff together and start rebuilding their lives. The county is working on a plan right now to allow people to put RVs or trailers on their property. In Monroe County, Florida’s southernmost county, which includes the Keys, officials were warning people that the danger had not subsided, even though the storm had already passed through. Adamarys Rosario, 24, and her partner, Steven Rivera, 23, live in a trailer a few miles from the school. They endured the nightmare of Hurricane Maria in 2017, when they lived in Puerto Rico, and this time they knew it wasn’t safe to stay in their adopted Florida home.
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