Hurricane Ian lays waste to Florida

                                                            


 Scope of the harm from this lethal

typhoon has turn out to be painfully clear

this night we've simply discovered this

night that Ian is now a typhoon

once more developing more potent polishing off for

any other devastating blow because it now moves

North and proper up the East Coast right here

in Southwest Florida this night Ian struck

is a class four typhoon simply shy of a

class 5 24 hours in the past and this

night we've now discovered the typhoon

surge become file-breaking and lethal the

flooding now no longer simply at the coast however of

direction Inland too this night there are

Urgent rescues underway and the death

toll is mountaineering President Biden has

warned that there might be a quote

massive lack of existence proper right here in

Florida at this hour Ian is now

typhoon once more a class one seventy five miles

an hour are the winds now transferring lower back

into the nice and cozy Atlantic Waters forecast

to crash lower back ashore in South Carolina

someday the following day and we've new photos

this night of Ian's Fury the eyewall

plowing thru Placida Florida ripping

houses to shreds there the typhoon surge

overpowering this constructing in Fort Myers

Beach lifting it proper off its

basis washing it away and this night

of direction the harm the typhoon left

at the back of this Fort Myers Beach Community

left in splinters the floor littered

with particles alongside the shore a pile of

boats unmoored and some distance from the

shoreline this night neighborhoods flooded

for miles one domestic on hearthplace with out a way

to combat the flames and the main harm

to infrastructure throughout the area the

Sanibel Causeway seriously broken the

night time and unusable almost 2 million

human beings nonetheless with out strength on this state

this night and at the Northeast Coast of

Florida Ian arriving as a tropical typhoon

in Saint Augustine at Peak High Tide

Orlando getting file rain and flooding

rescues taking area there and the

efforts to rescue households remain

underway Statewide in Naples a car

window smashed to loose the driving force interior

in Tampa boats faring human beings to safety

from their flooded houses and in Orlando

greater than 100 citizens rescued

from a nursing domestic wherein sandbags

did not maintain the water out our team

throughout the typhoon Zone this night in fact

the Coast Guard a rear Admiral with the

Coast Guard Brendan McPherson is proper

right here with us this night at the rescues

taking area at this hour what they may be

seeing the situations interior those houses

what is left of them however first what we've

visible the destruction throughout this state

this night the lethal toll of typhoon Ian

the large destruction right here in Florida

getting into clearer Focus the lethal

typhoon making records as one of the maximum

effective hurricanes ever to make

landfall right here in Southwest Florida and

along side the typhoon The Staggering

quantity of rain a as soon as in 1000 year

rainfall they may be calling it right here Bridges

destroyed houses on hearthplace entire

neighborhoods underwater in Fort Myers

the Lee County Sheriff surveying the

devastation shooting those photos

this night the seashores decimated plumes

of thick black smoke on this

community the Sanibel Causeway washed

away reducing the island off to the

mainland

from the floor Fort Myers Beach leveled

the pier gone

catastrophic harm strength strains Catching

Fire almost 2 million nonetheless with out

power this night twenty thousand

Florida Power and Light Crews racing to

repair strength right here throughout this state

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis the

influences of this typhoon are are anciental

and the Damage that become completed uh has been

anciental President Biden in contact with

Governor DeSantis once more nowadays the

president speakme of the giant human

toll right here and the actual worry that that

toll may want to upward thrust dramatically the

president at FEMA headquarters nowadays

this will be the deadliest typhoon in

Florida's records

the numbers of nonetheless are nonetheless unclear

however we are listening to early reviews of what

can be massive lack of existence

this night as a minimum seven showed deaths

hospitals evacuated amid the floods

seek and rescue groups Fanning out maintain

on maintain on

the Nassau County Marine unit rescuing

 human beings on their sailboat overnight

grabbing them and pulling them to safety

yeah

human beings's hearthplace and rescue smashing

Windows to get to this driver

even as different participants of the hearthplace

branch waved thru waste deep

water as they dump their hearthplace truck

submerged into Waters right here they have

been rescuing households bringing them

lower back to the hearthplace station

dozens of huge Chinook and Blackhawk

helicopters acting rescues and those

photos this night of the U.S Coast Guard

airlifting stranded human beings from rooftops

close to Sanibel Island 1000 FEMA

Personnel deployed right here supplying

tens of thousands and thousands of liters of water and meals

and loads of turbines Charlotte and

Lee counties reporting greater than 500

rescues greater than three hundred rescued in Orlando

on this community neighborhood police

teaming up with the National Guard

Orange County hearthplace rescue racing in with

stretchers to rescue seniors the Avante

assisted dwelling facility

fall as a robust class four typhoon

simply shy of a class 5. the

file-breaking typhoon surge nicely ripping

Roots off houses

ascending to briefly

this time lapse of Fort Myers Beach

displaying flood waters taking on the

streets

boats floating away there is like 3

boats

4 of them

we do not know whose automobiles maximum of those

are the own circle of relatives using out the typhoon in

their grandmother's domestic looking from

the home windows as automobiles and houses Float by

that is a residence from throughout the street

on the seaside on foot outdoor the palm

timber bending withinside the wind somebody's RV

got here in our backyard

it truly is our pool

it truly is our deck

that uh that become my residence

my residence is gone

at the floor right here we met Joseph arsana

Munoz who left domestic to trip out the

typhoon with own circle of relatives best to discover her domestic

badly broken nowadays she stated it become

terrifying they might sense the typhoon

blowing in the residence you do not want

to undergo that once more

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yeah

and extraordinarily frightening

however as a minimum you are ok and the

own circle of relatives's ok

yeah

we are glad

and the log own circle of relatives Sam his

seven-year-antique son Mason staying with

their Pastor due to the fact the pastor's domestic

is constructed of brick they could not get lower back

to their domestic nowadays due to the

floods any phrase for your residence

yeah we had all of the barns we had  or

3 barns there all of them flew away

in Tampa effective wind gusts sending

this tree crashing right into a domestic

in Saint Augustine This SUV submerged

the boat at the back of it rocking withinside the waves

and that father this night thankful they

left their domestic to are searching for more secure shelter

now understanding what such a lot of now face I'm

positive you are feeling

quite blessed you have been right here for positive

yeah

yep were given saved us secure I realize plenty of

human beings were not so fortunate

that selection to live with their Pastor

as a substitute made all of the difference.

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