Hurricane Ian batters Florida
Rescue workers and residents of Florida's Gulf Coast searched for missing people and picked up the pieces from wrecked homes yesterday after Hurricane Ian tore through the area with howling winds, torrential rains and raging surf.
One of the mightiest storms to hit the US mainland in recent years, Ian flooded communities and left more than two million homes and businesses without power before barreling on across the peninsula to the Atlantic seaboard.
It was downgraded to a tropical storm yesterday morning. Ian blasted ashore at the barrier island of Cayo Costa on Wednesday afternoon as a Category 4 hurricane.
An unspecified number of people were stranded after choosing to ride it out at home rather than heed evacuation orders, Florida governor said.
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