Hurricane Ian made its second major landfall on the South Carolina coast as a Category 1 storm Friday.
Aerial photo of damage in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian on Thursday, September 29, 2022, in Fort Myers.
The governor’s office reported 12 deaths in Charlotte County, 8 in Collier County, and one in Polk County.In Lee County, it is still too early to say “until the water recedes,” Kevin Guthrie, the director of the Florida Division of Emergency Management, said at a Friday morning briefing. In Volusia County, one man fell and drowned in rising flood waters in his own home, while another drowned in a nearby canal, the Volusia County Sheriff’s office reported.
“There were cars floating in the middle of the water,” DeSantis said. “Some of the homes were total losses.”Ian’s center made landfall near Georgetown, South Carolina on Friday at approximately 2:05 p.m., with “life-threatening storm surge, damaging winds and flash flooding lashing the Carolinas,” according to the National Hurricane Center’s 2 p.m. advisory.
“You see a house totally washed out and it’s just nothing but a concrete slab on Fort Myers beach,” Gov. Ron DeSantis said Friday morning. “You just pray to God that no one was in that.”
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