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- Here are the latest developments as Hurricane Ian approaches South Carolina
- 'The worst is not yet here': Hillsborough, Pinellas county officials warn residents to stay sheltered
- North Carolina's governor urges residents to stay aware and prepare ahead of Ian
- The eyewall of Hurricane Ian reaches southwest Florida
- Fifteen Florida hospitals and 130 long-term care facilities are evacuated
- TV reporter carries a woman to safety after water drowned her car
The State Emergency Response Team will activate Thursday at the State Emergency Operations Center in Raleigh and plans to move to 24-hour operations on Friday morning. South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster declared a state of emergency in anticipation of Ian moving north into the state. The price gouging law is in effect, Attorney General Josh Stein announced Wednesday after Gov. Cooper issued a state of emergency.
Here are the latest developments as Hurricane Ian approaches South Carolina
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Hurricane (now Tropical Storm) Ian is by no means done causing damage. But as the storm crosses the Florida peninsula, we're starting to get a clearer picture of just how hard it hit areas along the coast on Wednesday. Sanibel is a barrier island, home to some 6,500 people and located just south of where the hurricane made landfall. More than 2 million homes in Florida were without power, Gov. Ron DeSantis said in a press conference Thursday morning.
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He and his wife had been contemplating a return to North Carolina after the pandemic brought a surge of growth and congestion to Cape Coral. The Southwest Florida International Airport in Fort Myers canceled all flights on Thursday, while the Orlando International Airport ceased flight operations. Storms are beginning to lash the South Carolina and North Carolina coasts early Friday as Hurricane Ian advances north from the Atlantic Ocean. Charlotte County received about "300 triage 911 calls" during Hurricane Ian as crews were unable to respond due to dangerous conditions, according to county commissioner Bill Truex. Florida Power and Light, the state's largest utility, is deploying a drone bigger than a private plane to assess the damage from above and has warned that structural damage could take days or weeks to repair.
North Carolina's governor urges residents to stay aware and prepare ahead of Ian
"We are going to continue to move equipment in as we see where the impacts of the storm are," Criswell said. "And we pre-positioned quite a bit of equipment so we can respond immediately." There were stockpiles of fuel, power generators, and other critical items, as well as personnel to survey damage staged inside and outside of the hardest hit areas, with trucks and heavy equipment ready and waiting. ET on Wednesday — prior to the hurricane making landfall — the Florida Hospital Association said 15 hospitals had carried out evacuations affecting 350 patients.
The eyewall of Hurricane Ian reaches southwest Florida
Gusty winds will continue on Friday, peaking in the afternoon and into the overnight hours going into Saturday. Most North Carolina counties are under a Wind Advisory into Saturday. To the north in Lee County (Fort Myers) and Charlotte County (Port Charlotte/Punta Gorda) it may get as high as 18 feet. The waves on the barrier islands, such as Pine Island, are growing too. Rhome stressed that while wind and storm surge pose huge threats, heavy rains are not something to take lightly either. He said a wide swath of the state is facing some 10 to 15 inches of rain — in areas with low elevation and at the end of Florida's rainy season, meaning flood potential is high.
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More than 558,000 of those claims were for residential properties; over 33,000 of the claims were for commercial properties; and almost 600 were from interrupted businesses, according to the data. Nearly 180,000 were for other lines of business, including damaged automobiles. Ian made landfall in Cayo Costa on Sept. 28, 2022, as a category 4 hurricane. In the Orlando area, Orange County firefighters used boats to reach people in a flooded neighborhood. Patients from a nursing home were carried on stretchers across floodwaters to a bus. The hurricane tore through the park of about 60 homes, many of them destroyed or mangled beyond repair, including Goodison’s single-wide home.
Many in the hardest-hit areas were unable to call for help because of electrical and cellular outages. In the Fort Myers area, homes had been ripped from their slabs and deposited among shredded wreckage. Businesses near the beach were completely razed, leaving twisted debris. Broken docks floated at odd angles beside damaged boats and fires smoldered on lots where houses once stood. Though it's far too early to assess damages caused by Ian, past hurricanes have caused billions of dollars in damages related to flooding, structural damage and electrical outages.
TV reporter carries a woman to safety after water drowned her car
The U.S. Coast Guard initiated a search and rescue mission for 23 people and managed to find three survivors about two miles (three kilometers) south of the island chain, officials said. Four other Cubans swan to Stock Island, just east of Key West, the U.S. The Charlotte area saw wind gusts up to 46 mph Friday afternoon, this gust was recorded at the Charlotte Douglas International Airport. On Friday, Charlotte saw rainfall totals of roughly 2.44 inches, with the highest rainfall totals being reported in Gastonia at 2.84 inches.
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They were brought to a local hospital for symptoms of exhaustion and dehydration. Authorities are searching for at least 20 people after a boat carrying migrants sank off the coast of Florida, the U.S. More than 1 million Florida electricity customers didn’t have power as of late afternoon Wednesday, according to the website poweroutage.us. I talked to a reporter who had been down to Punta Gorda Library to talk to folks who are using that library as kind of an internet focal point and I know some of the other libraries have been operating as that as well.
In Lancaster County, Almiya White has started to see power outages, strong wind and rain. She said emergency officials are continuing to prepare for flooding as the rain picks up. Closer to home, counties east of Charlotte experienced very heavy rain and high winds. Flooding and power outages in the area remain a threat into the evening.
Even though Hurricane Ian is expected to have lost strength by the time it reaches Orlando in the coming hours, rain will continue to pelt the region and winds could still gust to 95 miles per hour. Water was already pooling in the streets, but many residents didn’t mind. Hurricane Ian was downgraded to Category 3 after making landfall in southwestern Florida, according to the National Hurricane Center. Wednesday, the storm was about 95 miles southwest of Orlando, with maximum sustained winds of 115 m.p.h. The hurricane made landfall first on Cayo Costa and later on Punta Gorda — the same two places Hurricane Charley, another Category 4 storm, came ashore in 2004. Crews will be checking damage in areas like Cape Coral and Englewood, which faced hours of storm surge and high winds as Ian slowly moved inland.
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.
In our local South Carolina counties, strong wind and flooding was also a major concern. Several Channel 9 crews also reported fallen trees in the Palmetto State. Channel 9′s Jonathan Lows was in Charleston County when Ian made a second landfall around 2 p.m.
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.
Sarasota County canceled trash collection and shut off water services on Siesta and Casey keys. In Collier County, which was also bracing to be struck by Ian, transit services were suspended on Wednesday. Some Florida cities are preemptively shuttering municipal services ahead of the arrival of Hurricane Ian, which is expected to produce dangerous weather conditions across the peninsula.
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