Here's why Florida's recovery from Hurricane Ian will be so hard.
on Wednesday afternoon when NBC News meteorologist Bill Karins predicted that the damage and power outages would prevent tens of thousands of Floridians from returning home any time soon.
Ian had winds of only 75 mph Monday, but it intensified rapidly, as Laura and Delta did in 2020 and Ida did last year. Take it from someone whose house took on 8 feet of water after Hurricane Katrina and who has covered disastrous storms since then: Karins is right to predict a long displacement for people from the hardest-hit areas. He’s also right to implicate climate change as the reason we’re seeing storms hit coastlines with more frequency and strength.
Forecast to reach Florida as a Category 3 hurricane, Ian struck Cayo Costa as a 150-mph Category 4 storm Wednesday afternoon. It was, Karins reported, the fifth-strongest storm to ever hit the continental U.S. Ian had winds of only 75 mph Monday, but it
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