PUNTA GORDA, Sept 29 — Hurricane Ian slammed into the coast of southwest Florida as a monster Category 4 storm on Wednesday with powerful winds and torrential rains threatening “catastrophic” damage and flooding.
Florida’s Governor Ron DeSantis said Wednesday that there were more than 1.1 million reported power outages in the state and that the figure is expected to grow. Some 2.5 million people were under mandatory evacuation orders in a dozen coastal Florida counties, with several dozen shelters set up, and voluntary evacuation recommended in others.
With up to two feet of rain expected to fall on parts of the so-called Sunshine State, and a storm surge that could reach devastating levels of 12 to 18 feet , authorities were warning of dire emergency conditions.The storm was set to move across central Florida before emerging in the Atlantic Ocean by late Thursday.Ian a day earlier had plunged all of Cuba into darkness after battering the country’s west as a Category 3 storm and downing the island’s power network.
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