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- In some parts of southwestern Florida, it’s already too late to evacuate
- More than 3,000 nursing home residents have been evacuated in Florida
- Your flight was canceled because of the storm. What now?
- North Carolina
- ‘Rapidly Intensifying’: Hurricane Ian Could Strengthen To Category 5 Storm As It Approaches Florida
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- Millions without power amid storm surges, inland flooding, as Ian crosses Florida and threatens South Carolina
Almost 20% of Florida Power & Light's tracked customers were without electricity early Friday, according to PowerOutage.us. Florida Power & Light, the state's largest energy provider, said in a tweet that storm conditions are making repairs difficult. Earlier on Thursday, the amount of customers reported to be in the dark reached as high as 2.6 million. Flooding rains will also likely begin soaking the Carolinas and southern Virginia, according to the forecast. Public works crews have started to open up major roads in Charlotte County, Truex said.
In some parts of southwestern Florida, it’s already too late to evacuate
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Another flight, a weather reconnaissance mission with the Air Force Reserve, also reported extremely chaotic flight conditions. He posted an image as light as day — but the light comes from lightning, because the picture was taken at night. He and his colleagues were dropping drones to take measurements of the storm. Hurricane hunter pilots are accustomed to experiencing chaotic flying conditions — which makes the stunned reports of those who have flow into the center of Hurricane Ian so noteworthy.
More than 3,000 nursing home residents have been evacuated in Florida
Ian is just shy of a Category 5 storm as it inches closer to official landfall on Florida's Gulf Coast. If its winds increase even a little, that would put it in an exclusively destructive club of storms that pack winds of 157 mph or more. So far, only four storms have been recorded at such an intensity as they made landfall in the continental U.S. — three in Florida and one in Mississippi. The National Hurricane Center says Hurricane Ian has made "mainland" landfall south of Punta Gorda near Pirate Harbor. And they say that total debris for that event was under 2 million, like 1.7 million. And that was a fairly small storm, they say that Charley would have fit in Ian's eye.
Your flight was canceled because of the storm. What now?
We expect drenching rain and sustained, heavy winds over most of our state. Officials said storm-related damages consist of trees down on homes, roads and power lines. Cape Coral said normal operations would resume after winds dipped below 45 mph and that city officials would have to prioritize 911 calls and respond when it was safe.
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Friday afternoon sessions at the Mecklenburg County Courthouse scheduled for Friday have been canceled. Conditions deteriorated quickly along the South Carolina coast Friday morning. Meanwhile, Jim Erbs was at Charlotte-Douglas International Airport on Saturday afternoon waiting to pick up his wife, who was flying in from Orlando. Saturday morning, debris was visible in the Myers Park neighborhood and the Little Sugar Creek Greenway, but much of it amounted to small branches and tree leaves.
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Closer to Charlotte, Channel 9′s Ken Lemon was in northwest Charlotte where residents are also concerned about potential flooding. While all of the attention is focused on the coast, we should remember this storm is big and powerful and expected to retain its hurricane strength far inland. The eye of the storm is expected to come ashore in the 2 to 3 p.m ET timeframe – somewhere in Charlotte or Lee counties. Municipal officials up and down the coast were asking residents to shelter in place, and city services were already suspended in some areas. A slower storm means people will feel the effects of the storm longer. Orlando closed city hall, suspended garbage pick-up and closed public schools and libraries.
The storm will move through the Piedmont fairly quickly Friday night, which is good news for any flooding. The mountains and foothills of North Carolina will be at a greater risk of flooding as the rain lingers through Saturday morning. Beyond the typical severe weather, there are dangerous heat waves, record-breaking cold snaps or even hazardous winds that could impact people's safety. Those instances would cause WCNC Charlotte's Weather Team to tell everyone they should be Weather Aware.
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The highest percentage of damaged structures occurred on the central and northern portions of the island, where most of the structures were single-family and multi-family residences. Most of the structures that experienced 0 to 30 percent damage were classified as low-rise condominiums (three stories or less), commercial shopping centers and stores. Among the "severely damaged" and "destroyed" structures were seven mobile home subdivisions. Across Florida, there were 776,941 claims filed following the storm, from homeowners, commercial property owners and those whose businesses were disrupted or vehicles damaged, the insurance regulation agency reports. Hurricane Ian caused more than $21 billion in insured losses, based on the latest damage estimates from the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation.
Walt Disney World says it plans to reopen its theme park and resorts in a phased approach starting Friday as weather conditions improve. In southwest Florida, roughly 15 to 20 facilities are without power, but do have generators that are operating, Knapp said. “Our hearts are with our heroic caregivers who have been working around the clock to keep their residents safe which is always the top priority,” association spokesperson Kristen Knapp told NPR. Ian is expected to make landfall in South Carolina on Friday afternoon. “Pure wind damage, you know, is really more just restoration,” John Ketchum, the chief executive of FP&L’s parent company, NextEra Energy, said at an investor conference on Thursday.
More than 558,000 of those claims were for residential properties; over 33,000 of the claims were for commercial properties; and almost 600 were from interrupted businesses, according to the data. Nearly 180,000 were for other lines of business, including damaged automobiles. Ian made landfall in Cayo Costa on Sept. 28, 2022, as a category 4 hurricane. In the Orlando area, Orange County firefighters used boats to reach people in a flooded neighborhood. Patients from a nursing home were carried on stretchers across floodwaters to a bus. The hurricane tore through the park of about 60 homes, many of them destroyed or mangled beyond repair, including Goodison’s single-wide home.
"We are going to continue to move equipment in as we see where the impacts of the storm are," Criswell said. "And we pre-positioned quite a bit of equipment so we can respond immediately." There were stockpiles of fuel, power generators, and other critical items, as well as personnel to survey damage staged inside and outside of the hardest hit areas, with trucks and heavy equipment ready and waiting. ET on Wednesday — prior to the hurricane making landfall — the Florida Hospital Association said 15 hospitals had carried out evacuations affecting 350 patients.
In Cape Coral – to the south -- sustained winds have been measured at 112 mph (that’s category 3 strength). Cities along Florida’s Southwest Coast, pounded by storm surge and 150 mile-per-hour wind gusts from Ian, can feel like sleepier cousins to the high-rise multicultural pulsations of Miami. The region skews older, whiter and more conservative than Florida’s denser Atlantic coast. Places like Cape Coral have long drawn Midwesterners hunting for an affordable slice of Florida shoreline. Hurricane Ian’s winds are continuing to lose strength as the center of the storm moves over land. It now has maximum sustained winds of 90 miles per hour, the National Hurricane Center said, making it a Category 1 storm.
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