![]() The death toll was expected to increase substantially once emergency officials have an opportunity to search many of the hardest-hit areas. An 80-year-old woman and a 94-year-old man who relied on oxygen machines also died after the equipment stopped working during power outages.Īnother three people died in Cuba earlier in the week as the storm churned northward. Other storm-related fatalities included a 22-year-old woman who died after an ATV rollover from a road washout and a 71-year-old man who fell off a roof while putting up rain shutters. A 67-year-old man who was waiting to be rescued died after falling into rising water inside his home, authorities said. Many of the deaths were drownings, including that of a 68-year-old woman swept away into the ocean by a wave. ![]() Ian left a broad swath of destruction in Florida, flooding areas on both of its coasts, tearing homes from their slabs, demolishing beachfront businesses and leaving more than 2 million people without power. As Ian moved across South Carolina on its way to North Carolina Friday evening, it dropped from a hurricane to a post-tropical cyclone. Online cameras showed seawater filling neighborhoods in Garden City to calf level. ![]() It also washed way parts of four piers along the coast, including two at Myrtle Beach. While Ian’s center came ashore near Georgetown, South Carolina, on Friday with much weaker winds than when it crossed Florida’s Gulf Coast earlier in the week, the storm left many areas of Charleston's downtown peninsula under water. Study finds that climate change added 10% to Ian's rainfall ![]()
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