AMONG THE DEADLIEST AND COSTLIEST US STORMS, IAN LEFT AT LEAST 30 PEOPLE DEAD

  • 01/10/2022

While authorities in South Carolina started evaluating damage from its strike there, rescuers looked for survivors among the wreckage of Hurricane Ian's flooded homes in Florida. Meanwhile, one of the strongest and most expensive hurricanes to ever hit the United States was still moving north.

27 people from Florida were among the at least 30 confirmed fatalities, most of whom drowned but who also perished as a result of the storm's tragic aftereffects. Authorities reported that an elderly couple died after their oxygen machines shut off when they lost power.

The powerful storm terrorised millions of people for most of the week, battering western Cuba before raking across Florida from the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico to the Atlantic Ocean, where it mustered enough strength for a final assault on South Carolina. Now weakened to a post-tropical cyclone, Ian was expected to move across central. 

Meanwhile, distraught residents waded through knee-high water Friday, salvaging what possessions they could from their flooded homes and loading them onto rafts and canoes.

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