Hurricane Ian slams into South Carolina, making another landfall after a deadly march across Florida that washed away houses, stranded thousands and left an unknown number of people dead
Human-caused climate change increased the extreme rain that Ian unleashed by over 10 percent, US scientists say.
It was later downgraded to a post-tropical cyclone but the NHC warned coastal residents that the "dangerous storm surge, flash flooding and high wind threat continues." More than 350,000 people were without power in North and South Carolina, according to the tracking website poweroutage.us., citing state and county reporting, said the storm had left at least 42 people dead in Florida but state officials cited a figure of 21 and said 20 of those deaths had not been confirmed yet as storm-related.
With damage estimates running into the tens of billions of dollars, Biden said it's "going to take months, years to rebuild."CoreLogic, a firm that specialises in property analysis, said wind-related losses for residential and commercial properties in Florida could cost insurers up to $32 billion while flooding losses could go as high as $15 billion.
DeSantis said the coastal town of Fort Myers where the hurricane made landfall, was "ground zero" but "this was such a big storm that there are effects far inland."
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