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Hurricane Ian "invades" Florida, 2 million homes and businesses without electricity!

2022-09-29 08:52:39Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

Hurricane Ian "invades" Florida, 2 million homes and businesses

Hurricane Ian left a trail of destruction in southwest Florida, trapping people in flooded homes, damaging the roof of a hospital intensive care unit and cutting power to 2 million people before barreling toward the Atlantic coast.

One of the strongest hurricanes to ever hit the United States crossed the Florida peninsula overnight Wednesday, threatening catastrophic flooding inland, the National Hurricane Center warned.

The medium-sized hospital spans four floors, but patients were forced into only two because of the damage. Bodine planned to spend the night there in case people injured by the storm arrived needing help.

Law enforcement officials in nearby Fort Myers received calls from people trapped in flooded homes or worried relatives. Prayers were also posted on social media sites, some with videos showing debris-covered water creeping toward the shelter of homes.

Hurricane Ian turned roads into rivers and downed trees as it slammed into southwest Florida on Wednesday with winds of 150 mph (241 km/h), pushing a storm wall. Ian's landfall strength was Category 4, tying it for the fifth-strongest hurricane, as measured by wind speed, to ever hit the US.

Ian strengthened to Category 1 by late Wednesday with winds of 90 mph (144 kph) as it moved on land. However, storm surges of up to 2 feet are expected on the opposite side of the state, in northeast Florida, on Thursday. And hurricane-force winds are expected across central Florida through early Thursday with widespread, catastrophic flooding.

The US Coast Guard launched a search and rescue mission for 23 people and managed to find three survivors about two miles (three kilometers) south of the Florida Keys, officials said. Four other Cubans swam to Stock Island, east of Key West, the US Border Patrol said. Air crews continued to search for perhaps 20 remaining migrants.

The storm earlier swept across Cuba, killing two people and knocking out the country's power grid.

More than 2 million Florida homes and businesses are without power, according to PowerOutage.us. Almost every home and business in three counties was without power.

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