Hurricane Ian has made landfall in southwestern Florida as a massive Category 4 storm
made landfall Wednesday in southwest Florida as one of the most powerful storms ever recorded in the U.S., swamping city streets with water and smashing trees along the coast.
The Category 4 storm slammed the coast with 150 mph winds and pushed a wall of storm surge accumulated during. The storm previously tore into Cuba, killing two people and bringing down the country's electrical grid. “We’re seeing tree damage, horizontal rain, very high wind — I think it’s a 100-plus sustained outside right now,” Boone said by telephone. “We have a 50-plus-year-old oak tree that has toppled over.”
“We were going to stay and then just decided when we got up, and they said 155 mph winds," Hawver said."We don’t have a generator. I just don’t see the advantage of sitting there in the dark, in a hot house, watching water come in your house.” “It is kind of scary, makes you a bit anxious,” Lewis said. “After the last year of not having any, now you go to a Category 4 or 5. We are more used to the 2s and 3s.”
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