The latest on Hurricane Ian:
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – The death toll in the United States from Hurricane Ian rose to 27 Friday night.
Several new deaths were attributed to the storm, according to the Florida Medical Examiners Board, including a 62-year-old woman who died after being injured and drowned when a tree fell on a mobile home, a 54-year-old man who was found trapped in a window after drowning, and a woman who was found tangled in wires under a Lee County residence.
Other deaths reported earlier include a 22-year-old woman who was ejected from an ATV rollover on Friday due to a road meltdown in Manatee County and a 71-year-old man who died from injuries head injuries when he fell off a roof while standing up. rain shutters on Wednesdays.
Three more people died in Cuba earlier in the week as the storm headed north. The death toll is expected to rise significantly once emergency officials have a chance to search many of the hardest hit areas.
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KEY DEVELOPMENTS:
— Ian hits South Carolina like Florida death toll mounted
— Hurricane Ian is heading for the Carolinas after beating Florida
— DeSantis goes from provocateur to crisis manager after Ian
— In Ian’s wake, worried families gather rescue efforts
— After Ian, the effects in Southwest Florida are everywhere
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OTHER DEVELOPMENTS:
The death toll in the United States from Hurricane Ian has risen to 17 as authorities in Florida confirmed several drowning and other fatalities on Friday afternoon.
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement said the deaths include a 22-year-old woman who was ejected from an ATV rollover on Friday due to a road meltdown in Manatee County and a man 71-year-old died of head injuries in his fall. a roof while installing rain shutters on Wednesday. Many other deaths were drownings, including a 68-year-old woman who was swept into the ocean by a wave.
Three more people died in Cuba as the storm headed north earlier in the week. The death toll was expected to rise significantly as emergency officials get a chance to search many of the areas hardest hit by the storm.
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MIAMI, Fla. — Severe riverine flooding is expected to continue in parts of central Florida through next week as post-tropical storm Ian continues to move up the east coast, according to the National Hurricane Center.
In a late Friday afternoon update, the agency said further extensive flooding will also occur in the evening in North and South Carolina, as well as southeastern Virginia, and local flooding could be expected in parts of northwestern North Carolina and southern Virginia early Saturday morning.
Although the storm’s intensity has diminished from hurricane strength, agency officials warned of a potentially deadly storm surge along the Carolinas coast Friday evening.
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MYRTLE BEACH, South Carolina — A commercial fishing boat anchored in the ocean near Myrtle Beach broke free and ran aground on Friday, but no one was on board, according to the state police spokesperson. town, Master Corporal. Tom Vest.
The U.S. Coast Guard was called to the boat Thursday when it had mechanical problems, Vest said. Everyone got off the boat and it was anchored in the ocean near 82nd Avenue North. At some point on Friday, however, the boat broke free and police began receiving calls about the boat as it traveled about eight miles south to the beach near Williams Street, it said. -he declares.
Officials believe liquids were leaking from the boat and there was a strong smell of fuel, Vest said. Authorities warned the public to stay away from the boat, saying it was extremely dangerous.
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CHARLESTON, SC – Ian transformed from a hurricane to a post-tropical cyclone as it moved through South Carolina.
The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Ian, who tore up a swath of destruction across Florida earlier this week, had maximum sustained winds of 70 mph (110 kph) Friday afternoon.
Ian hit the Gulf Coast of Florida on Wednesday as a powerful Category 4 hurricane with winds of 150 mph (240 km/h), inundating homes and leaving nearly 2.7 million people without power.
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COLUMBIA, SC – Hurricane Ian destroyed parts of at least four piers along South Carolina’s northern coast.
Heavy wave and swell from the Category 1 storm hit around Myrtle Beach on Friday.
Police said Pawley’s Island Pier was swept away first. Then local television footage showed missing sections of the Cherry Grove pier near North Myrtle Beach and the Apache and Second Avenue piers in Myrtle Beach.
An 85 mph (137 km/h) wind gust was measured at Fort Sumter, the small island where the Civil War began about 4 miles (6.4 km) from downtown Charleston, the National reported. Weather Service.
More than 200,000 customers were without power Friday afternoon in South Carolina as Ian moved ashore.
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The story above has been corrected to clarify that parts of four piers in South Carolina were washed away – not entire piers.
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ORLANDO, Fla. — University of Central Florida students living in an apartment complex near the Orlando campus, rendered homeless by flooding, recovered their belongings from their waterlogged units on Friday. Andee Holbert, her sister and their dog left their apartment on Thursday before the water hit their heads. They returned on Friday to collect wet clothes from garbage bags and whatever other belongings they could salvage, loading them onto their father’s van.
“We still had power, which is terrifying, and the lights were still on,” said Holbert, a nursing student. “And there’s knee-deep water in there.”
Deandra Smith, also a nursing student, stayed in her third-floor apartment with her dog after falling asleep while others evacuated. On Friday, other students helped her get to dry land by pushing her through the flooded parking lot on a pontoon. She wasn’t sure if she should go back to her parents in South Florida or find a safe haven so she could keep going to school. “I’m still trying to figure it out,” she said.
RALEIGH, NC – Power outages increased and some coastal rivers rose in North Carolina as heavy rains and winds from Hurricane Ian swept through the state on Friday following the storm’s impact in South Carolina.
Governor Roy Cooper said adjustments to Ian’s projected path could cause more problems in central and eastern North Carolina than previously thought. But he says state emergency equipment and services have been organized to maximize flexibility.
It warns residents across the state to stay vigilant, as up to 8 inches (20.3 centimeters) of rain could fall in some areas, along with high winds.
More than 55,000 customers in North Carolina were without power by mid-afternoon, according to PowerOutage.us, which aggregates outages nationwide.
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COLUMBIA, SC – A second pier in northern South Carolina was destroyed by Hurricane Ian.
Local television footage showed the central section of Cherry Grove Pier, near the North Carolina state line, washed away on Friday afternoon by rising waters and choppy waves as ‘Ian made landfall about 80 kilometers along the coast at Georgetown.
The region took the brunt of the outbreak as Ian hit the United States again with flooded neighborhoods and widespread power outages.
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MIAMI — Hurricane Ian made landfall, this time in South Carolina, after carving a swath of destruction across Florida earlier this week.
The US National Hurricane Center says the center of Ian landed Friday afternoon near Georgetown with maximum sustained winds of 85 mph (140 kph).
Ian hit the Gulf Coast of Florida on Wednesday as a powerful Category 4 hurricane with winds of 150 mph (240 km/h), inundating homes and leaving nearly 2.7 million people without power.