Death toll Hurricane Ian

President Biden declared an emergency for South Carolina and ordered federal assistance with the hurricane moving toward the coast. The extent of the damage ...

“We will continue to assess the storm’s impact to employees and our operations.” The scale of the wreckage was staggering, even to Florida residents who had survived and rebuilt after other powerful hurricanes. Nearby hospitals in the same health system were having to evacuate patients Thursday because of problems with water and power supply. “He’s literally the talk of the hospital because he’s so chunky and so cute,” said Ms. Souza said the damage to the island was “biblical.” Around 2:30 p.m., with their almost-6-hour-old baby, the Mahrs and other expectant mothers and parents with newborns were shuffled into the hallways to ride out the worst of the storm away from any windows. “It was a nightmare,” he said on Thursday as he stood in muddy white waders not far from the Nightwind, smoking a cigarette. “You can’t estimate in the beginning of this,” Dr. “That’s one of the fascinations of it.” Ian could bring four to seven feet of storm surge to South Carolina’s coast, the document notes, and drop four to eight inches of rain in the northeast part of the state, with as much as 12 inches in places. “Without the context of a human being in the elements, I can tell you, people still don’t understand why they’re being told to leave.” He added that meteorologists were trained to read the storm and knew how to assess risks.

It is expected to make a second official landfall Friday afternoon in South Carolina, bringing with it heavy winds and "life-threatening" storm surge along the ...

[NHC officials warned Thursday night](https://twitter.com/NHC_Atlantic/status/1575602757012168704) that many hurricane-related deaths occur days after the storm has passed while people are recovering. [National Hurricane Center](https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2022/al09/al092022.update.09281909.shtml?). [weakening into a tropical storm](https://www.axios.com/2022/09/27/live-hurricane-ian-southwest-florida). [NHC said](https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2022/al09/al092022.public.032.shtml?). [news briefing Thursday](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmmbX5OieU4). [AP](https://apnews.com/article/hurricane-ian-live-updates-cc53497a4e7a53523c4f63c7bd9ffa0a). [National Hurricane Center](https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/outreach/history/)during the first half of the 20th century saw between around 350 and 1,800 deaths. [hurricane status on Thursday night](https://www.axios.com/2022/09/29/live-updates-tropical-storm-ian-georgia-carolinas-thursday) on its way to a damaging encounter with the Carolinas and a portion of southern Georgia. [major surge-related flooding](https://twitter.com/DrAHButler/status/1575160965015883779)during the storm. [Hurricane Ian](https://www.axios.com/2022/09/29/live-updates-tropical-storm-ian-georgia-carolinas-thursday) pummeled Florida's western coast with [record storm surge flooding](https://www.axios.com/2022/09/28/hurricane-ian-storm-surge-southwest-florida) as high as 12 feet in some areas and intense winds, according to [AP](https://apnews.com/article/hurricane-ian-live-updates-02202ebdebd898bb82ab0422f8c729cf). [Energy & Environment](https://www.axios.com/energy-environment) [More than 1.9 million customers](https://poweroutage.us/) were without power in Florida on Friday morning as the state began [search and rescue and recovery efforts](https://www.axios.com/2022/09/29/hurricane-ian-damage-images) to deal with severe damage in the hurricane's aftermath.

State's death toll rises to 21, most yet to be confirmed by officials to be related to storm, while the storm is expected to make landfall in South Carolina ...

The hurricane will be the first to directly hit South Carolina since Hurricane Matthew in 2016. Yesterday, Joe Bidensaid the hurricane could prove the deadliest in Florida’s history. The entire coast of South Carolina is under a hurricane warning. Meanwhile, Florida is still assessing the mass of damages from Ian, mostly from flooding that the hurricane left in its wake. Some South Carolina residents are starting to feel the storm’s effects. Once it makes landfall, Ian is expected to weaken back to a tropical storm as it makes its way across the southeastern US. The Charleston airport closed its runways this morning in anticipation of the storm making landfall later today. “Based on our initial analysis, insured losses could range from $25 billion-$40 billion for Florida, which could increase depending on the effect of the storm in the Carolinas. The state yesterday said they had over 15,000 responses from residents who sheltered in place during the storm. Guthrie explained that officials need time to determine whether the deaths were directly disaster-related. Meanwhile, South Carolina is hunkering down as Hurricane Ian heads toward land once again. Officials have confirmed one death in Polk county near Orlando, but the 20 other deaths still need to be confirmed.

Authorities throughout southwest Florida will hit the road on Thursday in communities battered by the massive Hurricane Ian to assess damage, clear debris ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Top Florida officials said Friday that the death toll wrought by Hurricane Ian has reached 21 people as search and rescue teams continue ...

The water main damage means that no water is currently getting to the county and its 750,000-plus residents. “FEMA is here to support these ongoing efforts right now to continue the lifesaving missions that are still ongoing, but to also to begin to support the recovery mission,” Criswell said during the Friday briefing. The state is working to clear roadways and set up staging areas for local residents to secure food and water. Dozens of school districts, however, remain closed at least through Friday as they deal with power outages and possible flooding. Hardee County is almost completely powerless while Charlotte and Lee counties are facing outages of roughly 85 percent. It’s likely to rank among the worst in the nation’s history,” he said. “You kind of have a lump in your throat because you just don’t know what’s going to happen,” DeSantis said of Marceno’s estimate. Officials, however, did not speculate the possible number of fatalities in badly-hit Lee County, where reports on Thursday indicated that at least five people died there from the storm. One of the state’s top priorities as of Friday is working with federal and local officials to repair the water main break in Lee County, DeSantis said. DeSantis, however, has attempted to downplay that possibility, remaining hopeful that search and rescue operations will turn up survivors. The state, aided by federal and local responders, has performed more than 700 rescues thus far and made contact with 3,000 people who sheltered in place throughout the massive storm. Henry McMaster on Friday and earlier issued an emergency declaration for the state.

Hurricane Ian barrelled towards South Carolina on Friday after leaving a path of devastation across Florida, where officials raced to assess damage amid a ...