LIVE VIDEO: Officials in Florida provide updates on the devastation caused by Hurricane Ian, now downgraded to a tropical storm.
Hurricane Ian turned streets into rivers and blew down trees as it slammed into southwest Florida on Wednesday with 150 mph winds, pushing a wall of storm surge. Ian’s strength at landfall in Cayo Costa, a barrier island just west of heavily populated Fort Myers, was Category 4, tying it for the fifth-strongest hurricane, when measured by wind speed, ever to strike the U.S.
DeSantis added Alligator Alley from South Florida remains open as does I-75 into southwest Florida. Florida Department of Transportation crews are on the ground to make sure roadways are safe for travel. Several bridges in southwest Florida, including the Sanibel Causeway, suffered major damage in the storm.
“As long as our patients do OK and nobody ends up dying or having a bad outcome, that’s what matters," Bodine said.Life-threatening storm surges and hurricane conditions were possible on Thursday and Friday along the coasts of northeast Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina, where Ian was expected to move inland, dumping more rain well in from the coast, the hurricane center said.
“I am enacting this curfew as a means of protecting the people and property of Charlotte County,” Prummell said. At least two people were hospitalized Tuesday night after a tornado barrelled through Delray Beach, but there were no serious injuries, officials said.
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