– This is one of the worst floods we have ever experienced. The question remains how much damage the wind caused, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said at a press conference Wednesday night.
Forecasts showed that most of central and northeast Florida would fall between 30 and 45 cm of rain, and in some places even more than 60 cm.
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“Our streets are practically under water,” Mike McNees of Marco Island City Council was quoted by NBC as saying. As he added, “you can’t tell the streets from the canals”.
– At least two million people are without electricity. Many places are cut off from shedflooded, the losses will be enormous. (…) There is no panic, but there is certainly nervousness – said Jan Pachlowski, journalist for the Southwest Florida channel on TVN24 on Thursday morning.
As he added, they are locally dangerous tornadoes. – Telephones stopped working, now luckily they are already working. It’s dark for the moment, no electricity so we can’t see anything. It’s always deadly – he stressed.
– We are afraid of what we will see tomorrow morning, how far the element has advanced in devastation. We don’t know yet, the reporter said.
Hurricane Ian in Florida
“Potentially deadly storm waves 8 to 10 feet high (2.5 to 3 m – editor’s note) above the southwest coast of Florida, from Englewood to Bonita Beach, passing through the port of Charlotte, occur on the ground” – announced the National Hurricane Center on Thursday morning Polish time.
Hurricane-force winds will continue to blow through central Florida through Thursday, he added. “Wide and life-threatening catastrophic flooding” is also expected in parts of central Florida, northern Florida, southeast Georgia and eastern South Carolina.
“There is a danger of life-threatening storm surge Thursday and Friday along the coasts of northeast Florida, Georgia and South Carolina,” it read.
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