“The water was up over the rooftop, right, but we had a Coast Guard rescue swimmer swim down into it and he could identify that it appeared to be human remains. Initial responders who come across possible remains are leaving them without confirming, he said Friday, describing as an example the case of a submerged home. history.įlorida Division of Emergency Management Director Kevin Guthrie said first responders have focused so far on “hasty” searches, aimed at emergency rescues and initial assessments, which will be followed by two additional waves of searches. If those numbers are borne out, that would make Ian at least the fourth costliest hurricane in U.S. Hurricane Ian has likely caused “well over $100 billion’’ in damage, including $63 billion in privately insured losses, according to the disaster modeling firm Karen Clark & Company, which regularly issues flash catastrophe estimates. “There’s really been a Herculean effort,” he said during a news conference in Tallahassee. Ron DeSantis said Friday that crews had gone door-to-door to over 3,000 homes in the hardest-hit areas. An 80-year-old woman and a 94-year-old man who relied on oxygen machines also died after the equipment stopped working during power outages.įlorida Gov. Other storm-related fatalities included a 22-year-old woman who died after an ATV rollover from a road washout and a 71-year-old man who fell off a roof while putting up rain shutters. A 67-year-old man who was waiting to be rescued died after falling into rising water inside his home, authorities said. Many of the deaths were drownings, including that of a 68-year-old woman swept away into the ocean by a wave. A 14-mile (22-kilometer) stretch of Interstate 75 was closed in both directions in the Port Charlotte area because of the amount of water in the Myakka River. Ian left a broad swath of destruction in Florida, flooding areas on both of its coasts, tearing homes from their slabs, demolishing beachfront businesses and leaving more than 2 million people without power.Įven though the storm system has long passed over Florida, new issues were still presenting themselves Friday night. As Ian moved across South Carolina on its way to North Carolina Friday evening, it dropped from a hurricane to a post-tropical cyclone. Online cameras showed seawater filling neighborhoods in Garden City to calf level. It also washed away parts of four piers along the coast, including two at Myrtle Beach. While Ian’s center came ashore near Georgetown, South Carolina, on Friday with much weaker winds than when it crossed Florida’s Gulf Coast earlier in the week, the storm left many areas of Charleston’s downtown peninsula under water. The powerful storm, estimated to be one of the costliest hurricanes ever to hit the U.S., has terrorized people for much of the week - pummeling western Cuba and raking across Florida before gathering strength in the warm waters of the Atlantic Ocean to curve back and strike South Carolina. (AP) - A revived Hurricane Ian pounded coastal South Carolina on Friday, ripping apart piers and flooding streets after the ferocious storm caused catastrophic damage in Florida, trapping thousands in their homes and leaving at least 27 people dead.
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