“And there’s knee deep water in there.”ĭeandra Smith, also a nursing student, stayed in her third floor apartment with her dog after being asleep while others evacuated. “We still had power, which is terrifying, and the lights were still on,” said Holbert, a nursing student. They returned Friday to retrieve wet clothes in garbage bags and whatever other possessions they could salvage, loading them onto their father’s pickup truck. Andee Holbert, her sister and their dog left their apartment Thursday before the water reached their heads. University of Central Florida students living at an apartment complex near the Orlando campus, made homeless by the flooding, retrieved possessions Friday from their water logged units. The story above has been corrected to clarify that parts of four piers in South Carolina were washed away - not entire piers. More than 200,000 customers were without power Friday afternoon in South Carolina as Ian moved onshore. Then local TV footage showed sections missing of the Cherry Grove Pier near North Myrtle Beach and the Apache and Second Avenue piers in Myrtle Beach.Īn 85 mph (137 kph) wind gust was measured at Fort Sumter, the tiny island where the Civil War began about 4 miles (6.4 km) from downtown Charleston, the National Weather Service reported. Police said the Pawley’s Island Pier was washed away first. The brunt of the surge and waves from the Category 1 storm hit around Myrtle Beach on Friday. Hurricane Ian has destroyed parts of at least four piers along South Carolina’s northern coast. Ian hit Florida’s Gulf Coast as a powerful Category 4 hurricane with 150 mph (240 kph) winds Wednesday, flooding homes and leaving nearly 2.7 million people without power.ĬOLUMBIA, S.C. National Hurricane Center says Ian, which carved a swath of destruction across Florida earlier this week, had maximum sustained winds of 70 mph (110 kph) Friday afternoon. Ian has dropped from a hurricane to a post-tropical cyclone as it moved across South Carolina. Authorities have warned the public to stay away from the boat, saying it was extremely dangerous.ĬHARLESTON, S.C. Officials believe fluids were leaking from the boat and there was a strong smell of fuel, Vest said. At some point Friday, however, the boat broke free and police began getting calls about the boat as it traveled about 8 miles (13 kilometers) south to the beach near Williams Street, he said. Everyone got off the boat and it was anchored in the ocean near 82nd Avenue North. Coast Guard was called out to the boat on Thursday when it had mechanical problems, Vest said. A commercial fishing boat anchored in the ocean near Myrtle Beach broke free and washed ashore on Friday, but no one was aboard, according to city police spokesman Master Cpl. In an update late Friday afternoon, the agency advised that considerable other flooding will also occur into the evening in both North and South Carolina, as well as southeast Virginia, and local flooding could be expected in portions of northwest North Carolina and southern Virginia into early Saturday morning.Īlthough the intensity of the storm has decreased from hurricane strength, agency officials warned of life-threatening storm surge along the coasts of the Carolinas Friday night. Major river flooding is expected to continue across parts of central Florida into next week as post-tropical storm Ian continues making its way up the East coast, according to the National Hurricane Center. The death toll was expected to increase substantially when emergency officials have an opportunity to search many areas hardest hit by the storm. Many of the other deaths were drownings, including a 68-year-old woman who was swept into the ocean by a wave.Īnother three people died in Cuba as the storm made its way north earlier in the week. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement said the deaths included a 22-year-old woman who was ejected from an ATV rollover on Friday because of a road washout in Manatee County and a 71-year-old man who died of head injuries when he fell off a roof while putting up rain shutters on Wednesday. death toll from Hurricane Ian has risen to 17 as Florida authorities on Friday afternoon confirmed several drowning deaths and other fatalities. After Ian, the effects in southwest Florida are everywhere In Ian’s wake, worried families crowdsource rescue efforts DeSantis shifts from provocateur to crisis manager after Ian Hurricane Ian heads for Carolinas after pounding Florida 3.3 tgt, 1.9 rec, 19.1 yds, 0.- Ian lashes South Carolina as Florida’s death toll climbs
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