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Hurricane Ian came ashore with devastating near-Category 5 winds that peeled the roofs off homes and uprooted trees. But for most of Florida, the greatest hurricane threat was the water.
Flooding and Damage from Hurricane Ian in North Port, Sarasota County. The most impacted areas of the western coast were in Sarasota and Manatee counties. Sarasota County reported extensive tree and structural damage due to wind, as well as significant flooding in inland areas, specifically in and around Venice and North Port. [70]
Ian became a hurricane 12 hours later and a major hurricane after another 24 hours. At approximately 08:30 UTC on September 27, Ian made landfall on western Cuba as a high-end Category 3 hurricane with sustained winds of 125 mph (205 km/h) and a pressure of 947 mbar (27.96 inHg), becoming the strongest tropical cyclone to impact Pinar del Río ...
The protest was one of the largest in Sarasota's history. [70] On September 28, 2022, Hurricane Ian made landfall in the State of Florida. The Category 5 hurricane had a 200-mile wind field that caused winds exceeding 85 miles per hour within Sarasota County.
Sarasota has long history of avoiding catastrophic storms. Hurricanes caused havoc in varying degrees in 1926, 1944 and 1950, as well as Donna in 1960. Charley was a near-miss in 2004 when its ...
The death toll steadily climbed as the weeks turned into months, but by early October 2022, it was already evident that Hurricane Ian was the deadliest hurricane in the state's history since the ...
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 ...
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