Hurricane Ian lashes southern Florida 29.09.2022

Deutsche Welle | Sep 29, 2022 at 2:00 AM
  • Hurricane Ian brought high winds, heavy rains, storm surges and intense flooding to Florida on Wednesday, making landfall in the afternoon and moving inland through the evening.
  • The hurricane, a Category 4 storm out of a possible 5 on the Saffir Simpson scale upon arrival, made landfall near the city of Fort Myers on Florida’s western coast.
  • Electricity had been severed for more than 1 million homes out of just over 11 million tracked customers in the state of Florida.