a revived Hurricane Ian Coastal South Carolina bombed Friday, destroying jetties and flooding streets after a fierce storm caused catastrophic damage in Florida, trapping thousands in their homes and at least leaving their homes. 17 dead.
The powerful storm, estimated to be one of the costliest hurricanes ever to hit the United States, terrified people for much of the week — hitting western Cuba and sweeping through Florida before gathering strength in the warm waters of the Atlantic to retreat and strike. South Carolina.
While the Ian Center came ashore near Georgetown, South Carolina, on Friday with much weaker winds than when it crossed the Florida Gulf Coast earlier in the week, the storm left many areas of the central Charleston Peninsula underwater.
It also washed parts of four piers along the coast, including two in Myrtle Beach.
Online cameras showed The neighborhoods that fill the sea water in Garden City to calf level. When Ian moved through South Carolina on his way to North Carolina on Friday evening, it fell from a hurricane to a post-tropical hurricane.
Ian left a large area of Devastation in Florida, inundating areas on its coasts, ripping homes off their shingles, demolishing beachfront businesses and leaving more than two million people without electricity.
Many of the deaths were drowning, including the death of a 68-year-old woman who was swept into the ocean by a wave. A 67-year-old man waiting for rescue died after falling into high water inside his home, authorities said.
Other storm-related deaths included a 22-year-old woman who died after an SUV flipped from a road washer and a 71-year-old man who fell from a roof while installing rain shutters. An 80-year-old woman and a 94-year-old man who depended on oxygen machines also died after the machine stopped working during a power outage.
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