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Lee County has expanded evacuations ahead of Hurricane Ian. Additional Cape Coral and North Fort Myers areas in Zone C are now included. ... Additional Cape Coral and North Fort Myers areas in ...
Holly Harmon places a rose into a memorial for victims of Hurricane Ian in Fort Myers, Florida, on Monday, Oct. 10, 2022. More than 100 died during the hurricane, with the greatest number in Lee ...
August 25 – Hurricane Katrina moved ashore southeastern Florida as a minimal hurricane, producing a peak wind gust of 97 mph (156 km/h) at Homestead General Aviation Airport. Heavy rainfall accompanied the hurricane, peaking at 16.43 in (417 mm) in Perrine, which caused flooding in the Miami metro area. About 1.4 million people lost power ...
Radar loop showing Hurricane Ian making landfall in the Southwest Florida region. On September 29, Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno, whose jurisdiction covers Cape Coral and Fort Myers, estimated that thousands of people may still be trapped in floodwaters. [99] President Biden said the storm could end up as the deadliest in Florida's history ...
Hurricane warning maps show Florida blanketed in red and orange alerts. ... More than 1 million people were under evacuation orders in at least 16 counties, ... located near Fort Myers, planned to ...
President Biden meeting with FEMA officials in advance of the hurricane on September 29. Mandatory evacuation orders were issued for parts of multiple counties. [23] Around 300,000 people were evacuated in Hillsborough County (which centers on Tampa) with schools and other locations being used as shelters. Before the impact school closures and ...
Authorities continued ordering mandatory and voluntary evacuations Tuesday on Florida’s west coast ahead of Hurricane Ian, which is forecast to bring heavy rain, gusty winds and life-threatening ...
Hurricane Irma was the costliest tropical cyclone in the history of the U.S. state of Florida, before being surpassed by Hurricane Ian in 2022. Irma also was the first major hurricane [nb 1] to strike the state since Wilma in 2005 and the first Category 4 hurricane to make landfall in Florida since Charley in 2004.