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- Study first to use LiDAR, aerial imagery to remotely assess structural damage and beach structural changes
- South Carolina
- Ian re-strengthens into a hurricane as it heads toward South Carolina
- Maps and charts show extent of Hurricane Ian's destructive path across Florida — and what you can expect next
- More than 20 are missing as a boat carrying migrants sinks off the Florida coast
Tuesday will be a pleasant day to be outside with afternoon high temperatures ranging from the upper 70s around Charlotte, to around 60 degrees in Boone. As Hurricane Ian strengthens in the Atlantic and veers toward the South Carolina coast, officials are assessing the destruction wrought in Florida that is being characterized as likely the largest natural disaster in the state's history. Patronis, who also serves as the state's fire marshal, compared the devastation in the Fort Myers area to the damage left behind by Hurricane Michael, which slammed the Florida Panhandle in 2018 as a Category 5 storm.
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NHC says Hurricane Ian is the costliest storm to ever hit Florida.
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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.
Study first to use LiDAR, aerial imagery to remotely assess structural damage and beach structural changes
Ahead of Ian's arrival, Cooper declared a state of emergency in which he activated the state’s emergency operations plan, waived transportation rules governing fuel and critical supplies as well as protecting people from price gouging. South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster issued a hurricane warning for portions of his state’s coast. He expects the damage caused by Hurricane Ian will create more urgency to bury those lines underground. "Those places have been there a long time on the beach. My dad went to those when he was young, his dad went to the places when he was younger. Those places have been there a long time," Pratt said. "They really made Fort Myers what it was. And now that they're gone, I don't think it'll ever be the same." Sheriff Bull Prummell of Charlotte County, just north of Fort Myers, announced a curfew between 9 p.m.
South Carolina
That is the total number of Florida households that are without any power as of early Wednesday morning according according to PowerOutage.us. National Guard troops were being positioned in South Carolina to help with the aftermath, including any water rescues. On Thursday afternoon, a steady stream of vehicles left Charleston, a 350-year-old city. The hurricane is predicted to move across Florida to the Atlantic Ocean, where it's expected to regain strength over water and begin to approach the South Carolina coast Thursday. Gov. Ron DeSantis called the storm a "500-year flooding event." President Joe Biden declared a major disaster in Florida on Thursday.
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.
Fifteen Florida hospitals and 130 long-term care facilities are evacuated
Rain totals could be over 4 inches which will lead to flood concerns, especially east of Charlotte, where we expect to see higher rain totals. For the latest breaking news, weather and traffic alerts, download the WCNC Charlotte mobile app. The airport here seems to have done a great job of try to work through as much of the storm as possible,” Erbs said. She was waiting on a tree removal company to pick up the debris to prevent more damage. She has a preschool at her house and was teaching two students at the time.
Maps and charts show extent of Hurricane Ian's destructive path across Florida — and what you can expect next
But tropical hurricanes and storms affecting Florida between June and November are not covered because the company considers them foreseeable. Throughout Florida, many airports have closed and some hotels have begun preparing to accept evacuees instead of tourists. As of Wednesday afternoon, Hurricane Ian had already contributed to the cancellation of more than 4,000 flights, most within Florida, according to Kathleen Bangs, a spokeswoman for FlightAware, a flight-tracking company. “The biggest stunt was Biden coming in as president and reversing Trump’s policies,” Mr. DeSantis told reporters in Florida days later. He also suggested that the next plane of immigrants might land in Delaware, near the president’s weekend home.
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.
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.
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.
A hurricane warning was issued for the South Carolina coast and extended to Cape Fear on the southeastern coast of North Carolina. With tropical-storm force winds reaching about 415 miles (665 kilometers) from its center, Ian was forecast to shove storm surge of 5 feet (1.5 meters) into coastal areas in Georgia and the Carolinas. Rainfall of up to 8 inches (20 centimeters) threatened flooding from South Carolina to Virginia.
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