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- More than 3,000 nursing home residents have been evacuated in Florida
- Nearly 2.2 million customers are without power across Florida
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- Tampa mayor tells residents to remain vigilant, it's the 'calm before the storm'
- North Port in Florida enacts overnight curfew as emergency crews work through 911 call backlog
- Tampa International Airport will reopen Friday
Firefighters in Naples, Fla., waded through waist-high water to unload their fire truck after the garage at the station was flooded. At the Silver Star, a lovely little neighborhood where fresh paint coats the corrugated tin walls and the mobile homes feature elaborate porches and carports, few residents seemed interested in heeding that warning. The area’s Latino residents have been growing in numbers, and big new corporate arrivals like Hertz and a medical-device manufacturer have revved up an economy that is still powered by tourism and housing. Ms. Dudley said streets were flooding, cars were floating and fishermen were anxious about whether their boats had survived. Sheriff Marceno said that his department was receiving lots of 911 calls and that hundreds of deputies were waiting to help as soon as the wind fell to a safe level. “The second it goes under 45 m.p.h., we get back out there,” he said.
More than 3,000 nursing home residents have been evacuated in Florida
And at the Department of Health, and anywhere people were gathering, the FEMA registration site at the mall. So we were distributing thousands of copies of this daily resource guide to folks who didn't have any other way to get information. We've published ads in the in the newspaper, we did radio appearances in the mornings. You know, the internet being down for a lot of people just meant that we had to use some old-school channels.
Nearly 2.2 million customers are without power across Florida
At one point during the storm, they found a man standing in the pelting rain, holding bags of his belongings. When he ran for president in 2016, Jeb Bush, a two-term governor, frequently highlighted Florida’s hurricane preparedness and rebuilding efforts under his leadership. Mr. DeSantis’s immediate predecessor, Rick Scott, burnished a somewhat awkward public persona while shepherding Florida through a series of hurricanes during his tenure. On Wednesday morning, the president made a point to announce that he had been in touch with Mr. DeSantis. At a briefing early Wednesday evening, Mr. DeSantis noted that he had spoken with the president the day before.
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A hurricane warning was issued for the South Carolina coast and extended to Cape Fear on the southeastern coast of North Carolina. With tropical-storm force winds reaching about 415 miles (665 kilometers) from its center, Ian was forecast to shove storm surge of 5 feet (1.5 meters) into coastal areas in Georgia and the Carolinas. Rainfall of up to 8 inches (20 centimeters) threatened flooding from South Carolina to Virginia.
It’s 6 a.m. on the East Coast. Here’s the latest as Hurricane Ian nears the Carolinas.
Some coastal regions of Florida are expected to face life threatening storm surges as much as 18 feet high while other regions of the state remain at risk of flash flooding, the National Hurricane Center’s report added. Ian was downgraded to a tropical storm with 65-mph winds early Thursday as Florida braced for storm surges, flooding and wind damage. The storm returned to hurricane force the same day, then made landfall again Friday in South Carolina. The hurricane hit in September 2022, causing damage for more than half a million of the state's residents.
Right now we expect to have about 2 million cubic feet of debris and right now we have collected more than 400,000 cubic yards of debris, about 5,500 loads in the week or so that we've started collecting debris. WUSF's Matthew Peddie spoke with Charlotte communications director Brian Gleason about the challenges residents face, and problems that are still cropping up. Elizabeth Cifuentes, a housekeeper, and her roommate, Vinicio Ochoa, who works in landscaping, were trapped inside their nearby apartment, waiting for the water to recede. Extreme weather events are outside airlines’ control, so you cannot automatically expect a full refund if your flight is canceled or significantly delayed. But some airlines, including American, Frontier and JetBlue, are offering full refunds anyway.
Storm surge fears in Port Charlotte community ahead of Idalia - Wink News
Storm surge fears in Port Charlotte community ahead of Idalia.
Posted: Mon, 28 Aug 2023 07:00:00 GMT [source]
Hurricane Ian has dropped down to Category 2 as it moves over the Florida peninsula, but forecasters are warning that the massive storm will likely dump heavy rain on inland communities, causing widespread flooding. Jacksonville International Airport has canceled all its flights for Thursday and closed its terminal. The airport had remained open as Hurricane Ian approached and had said it would try to stay open. City water service has been restored, but for the next three days residents should still continue to boil water before consuming it, the city said. Officials in North Port, Florida, issued a citywide curfew for residents Thursday night amid flooding from Hurricane Ian.
Tampa International Airport will reopen Friday
It's expected to keep moving across Florida into parts of Georgia and South Carolina. Cooper said more than 10,000 utility workers in the Carolinas are ready to respond to power outages when it’s safe to do so. More than 2,200 NCDOT officials prepared equipment and are on standby waiting to respond around-the-clock later today and into this weekend. Crews fueled up and prepared more than 221 motor graders, 376 backhoes and loaders, 1,440 chainsaws and 1,368 trucks to cut and shove downed trees and debris from roads.
In the hours after Ian came ashore, a weather station near Fort Myers, Fla., recorded a water level seven feet higher than the average height of the highest daily tides, according to the National Hurricane Center. High winds continue to sweep across southwestern Florida, with a private weather station near Port Charlotte on the southwestern coast reporting 115 mile-per-hour sustained winds and 132 m.p.h. gusts. The hurricane came ashore as one of the strongest storms ever to strike Florida and was moving across the state with damaging winds, heavy rains and storm surges that left people trapped. For the Carolinas, we can expect outer rain bands to move through during the day Friday, with heavy rainfall at times through the day Saturday, and scattered rain lingering into Sunday. Rainfall of 2″ to 6″ are possible in the WBTV viewing area, with wind gusts of 35+ mph possible. Severe storm chances for the weekend are low at this time, yet stay tuned to more WBTV weather forecast updates through the week, on possible changes to the severe threat.
The governors of Virginia, Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina all preemptively declared states of emergency. Forecasters predicted Ian will turn toward those states as a tropical storm, likely dumping more flooding rains into the weekend, after crossing Florida. The storm surge flooded a hospital’s lower level emergency room in Port Charlotte, while fierce winds tore part of its fourth floor roof from its intensive care unit, according to a doctor who works there. A tropical storm warning was issued for the area around Charlotte, which will see rain move in Friday morning.
She lives in East Charlotte and said Friday morning a tree fell on top of her house and car. Ponding water also was found hundreds of meters inland near buildings and other structures, providing evidence of the extent of inundation resulting from the storm. "Results from our study can help improve disaster planning by developing new policies and guidelines for coastal development in some of the most vulnerable and storm-exposed areas." Florida regulators released new data on county-by-county insurance claims after Hurricane Ian devastated parts of coastal southwest Florida and other areas of the state. Prior to this, the NHC warned Ian has strengthened to an “extremely dangerous” Category 4 storm; hurricanes with winds above 157 miles per hour are classified as Category 5.
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