Hundreds have been told to evacuate their homes as the category 3 storm could devastate parts of Cuba and Florida.
Hundreds of thousands of people in Cuba and Florida have been told to evacuate their homes as Hurricane Ian threatens a ‘major disaster’.
Local official Suleika Roche, 43, told the Reuters news agency: ‘We are here saving human lives, going house to house, taking out the elderly and children.’ It’s then expected to bulldoze huge volumes of water towards the US coast, where it will still be blowing at over 120mph when it makes landfall later this week.
Some 5,000 National Guard troops have been deployed in anticipation of ‘dangerous storm surge, heavy rainfall, flash flooding, strong winds, hazardous seas, and isolated tornadic activity’, he said. Evacuation orders have begun to be rolled out, already covering 300,000 people in just one of the most worst-affected counties.
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