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  • Deadly tornadoes hit Texas and Oklahoma, flatten buildings

    Deadly tornadoes hit Texas and Oklahoma, flatten buildings

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    Residents in northeastern Texas and southeastern Oklahoma began assessing weather damage Saturday, working to recover and thankful to have survived after tornadoes tore through the region, killing at least two people, injuring others and leaving homes and buildings in ruins.

    Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt went to the town of Idabel to see the damage. He said on social media that all the homes had been searched and a 90-year-old man was killed. Keli Cain, spokesperson for the state’s Department of Emergency Management, said the man’s body was found at his home in the Pickens area of McCurtain County, about 36 miles north of Idabel.

    The Oklahoma Highway Patrol also reported a 6-year-old girl drowned and a 43-year-old man was missing after their vehicle was swept by water off a bridge near Stilwell, about 135 miles north of Idabel. The drowning has not been officially attributed to the storm and will be investigated by the medical examiner, Cain said.

    The small town of Idabel saw a church, medical center and a school torn apart.

    “There’s a lot of damage” in the town of about 7,000, Cain said. “There are well over 100 homes and businesses damaged from minor damage to totally destroyed.”

    Saturday afternoon Stitt declared a state of emergency for McCurtain County, where Idabel is located, and neighboring Bryan, Choctaw and LeFlore counties.

    The declaration is a step in qualifying for federal assistance and funding and clears the way for state agencies to make disaster-recovery related purchases without limits on bidding requirements.

    The National Weather Service said tornadoes also were reported in Texas and Arkansas.

    Morris County, Texas, Judge Doug Reeder said in a social media post that one person died as a result of a tornado in the far northeastern Texas County, offering no other details.

    Reeder and other county officials did not immediately return phone calls for additional comment.

    One community hit hard was Powderly, about 45 miles west of Idabel and about 120 miles northeast of Dallas. Both Powderly and Idabel are near the Texas-Oklahoma border.

    Shelbie Villalpando, 27, of Powderly, said she was eating dinner with her family Friday when tornado sirens prompted them to congregate first in their rented home’s hallways, then with her children, aged 5, 10 and 14, in the bathtub.

    “Within two minutes of getting them in the bathtub, we had to lay over the kids because everything started going crazy,” Villalpando said.

    “I’ve never been so terrified,” she said. “I could hear glass breaking and things shattering around, but whenever I got out of the bathroom, my heart and my stomach sank because I have kids and it could have been much worse. … What if our bathroom had caved in just like everything else? We wouldn’t be here.”

    Terimaine Davis and his son were huddled in the bathtub until just before the tornado barreled through Friday, reducing their home in Powderly to a roofless, sagging heap.

    “We left like five minutes before the tornado actually hit,” Davis, 33, told The Associated Press. “Me and my son were in the house in the tub and that was about the only thing left standing.”

    In their driveway Saturday morning, a child’s car seat leaned against a dented, grey Chevrolet sedan with several windows blown out. Around back, his wife, Lori Davis, handed Terimaine a basket of toiletries from inside the wreckage of their house.

    The couple and the three kids who live with them did not have renter’s insurance, Lori Davis said, and none of their furniture survived. “We’re going to have to start from scratch,” she said.

    They hope to stay with family until they can find a place to live.

    “The next few days look like rough times,” Terimaine Davis said.

    Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said damage assessments and recovery efforts are under way in northeast Texas and encouraged residents to report damage to the Texas Division of Emergency Management.

    “I have deployed all available resources to help respond and recover,” Abbott said in a statement. “I thank all of our hardworking state and local emergency management personnel for their swift response.”

    Weather service meteorologist Bianca Garcia in Fort Worth said while peak severe weather season typically is in the spring, tornados occasionally develop in October, November, December and even January.

    “It’s not very common,” Garcia said, “but it does happen across our region.”

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  • Cyclone Sitrang: Deep depression intensifies into cyclonic storm, IMD issues alerts

    Cyclone Sitrang: Deep depression intensifies into cyclonic storm, IMD issues alerts

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    Cyclone Sitrang: A deep depression over the Bay of Bengal has intensified into cyclonic storm ‘Sitrang’, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Sunday. In a tweet, the weather forecasting agency said the deep depression over the Bay of Bengal intensified into the cyclonic storm ‘Sitrang’ at 5:30 pm, 580 km south of Sagar Island and 740 km south-southwest of Barisal (Bangladesh). 

    The storm will move north-northeastwards and cross Bangladesh’s coast between Tinkona Island and Sandwip around Tuesday early morning, the department added. Cyclone Sitrang will primarily impact the Sunderbans spread over West Bengal and Bangladesh, as tidal waves are likely to reach a height of six metres.

    IMD Kolkata’s Deputy Director General Sanjib Bandopadhyay said the main affected area will be the Sunderbans in the coastal areas of North and South 24 Parganas districts of West Bengal and in Bangladesh. 

    He said the height of the waves due to the cyclone will be one metre above the astronomical tide level. But since the new moon is on October 25, he said, the tide level owing to it will be five to six metres at West Bengal and Bangladesh coasts, so the effective height of the tide at the time of landfall on Tuesday morning will be around six metres in North and South 24 Parganas.

    The IMD has predicted heavy rainfall for parts of West Bengal and Odisha. For Odisha, the department predicted light to moderate rainfall with isolated heavy fall at many places over coastal districts on 24th and isolated heavy rainfall over north coastal districts on Tuesday, 25 October. In Odisha, districts of Balasore, Bhadrak, Jajpur, Kendrapada, Jagatsinghpur, and Cuttack are predicted to witness heavy to very heavy rainfall during the next two days. 

    In West Bengal, light to moderate rainfall at most places with isolated heavy to very heavy fall is likely over coastal districts South and North Parganas, East and adjoining West Medinipur on Monday, 24th October. The weather office has issued an orange alert for these four districts on Monday. 

    “Light to moderate rainfall at many with isolated heavy to very heavy rainfall is likely over coastal districts (South & North Parganas and Nadia) of West Bengal on 25th October,” it said. For these three districts, the IMD has issued a yellow alert for Tuesday. 

    With inputs from PTI

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  • Hurricane Roslyn forecast to bring dangerous storm surge to Mexico

    Hurricane Roslyn forecast to bring dangerous storm surge to Mexico

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    Hurricane Roslyn was expected to deliver a treacherous storm surge to parts of Mexico Sunday after plowing over the Pacific as a powerful Category 4 storm just offshore from the resort of Puerto Vallarta.

    The U.S. National Hurricane Center said early Sunday that Roslyn had become “extremely dangerous” with maximum sustained winds of 130 mph.

    The storm was forecast “to bring damaging winds, a life-threatening storm surge and flooding rains to portions of west-central Mexico today,” the hurricane center said at 12 a.m. Sunday.

    The center placed Roslyn’s core about 45 miles west of Cabo Corrientes — the point of land jutting into the Pacific south of Puerto Vallarta — and moving north at 12 mph.

    Forecasters said Roslyn likely would pass close to Cabo Corrientes and the Puerto Vallarta region during the night, but warned that those areas would still see high winds, heavy rains and rough surf.

    A hurricane warning was in effect for Las Islas Marias and Playa Perula to Escuinapa. A hurricane watch was in effect for the area north of north of Escuinapa to Mazatlan, the center said.

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    This satellite image taken at 15:30 UTC and provided by NOAA shows Hurricane Roslyn approaching the Pacific coast of Mexico, Saturday, Oct. 22, 2022.

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    The storm was expected to come ashore in Nayarit state Sunday morning. Hurricane Orlene made landfall Oct. 3 a little farther north in roughly the same region, about 45 miles southeast of the resort of Mazatlan.

    Hurricane-force winds extended out 30 miles from Roslyn’s center, while tropical storm-force winds extended out to 80 miles, the U.S. hurricane center said.

    A hurricane warning was posted on a stretch of coast from Playa Perula south of Cabo Corrientes north to El Roblito and for the Islas Marias.

    Seemingly oblivious to the approaching storm, tourists ate at beachside eateries Saturday around Puerto Vallarta and smaller resorts farther north on the Nayarit coast where the storm likely was headed.

    “We’re fine. Everything is calm, it’s all normal,” said Jaime Cantón, a receptionist at the Casa Maria hotel in Puerto Vallarta. He said that if winds picked up, the hotel would gather up outside furniture “so nothing will go flying.”

    While skies began to cloud up, waves remained normal, and few people appeared to be rushing to take precautions. Swimmers were still in the sea at Puerto Vallarta.

    “The place is full of tourists,” said Patricia Morales, a receptionist at the Punta Guayabitas hotel in the laid-back beach town of the same name, farther up the coast.

    Asked what precautions were being taken, Morales said, “They (authorities) haven’t told us anything.”

    The Nayarit state government said the hurricane was expected to make landfall around the fishing village of San Blas, about 90 miles north of Puerto Vallarta.

    The head of the state civil defense office, Pedro Núñez, said, “Right now we are carrying out patrols through the towns, to alert people so that they can keep their possession safe and keep themselves safe in safer areas.”

    In the neighboring state of Jalisco, Gov. Enrique Alfaro wrote that 270 people had been evacuated in a town near the hurricane’s expected path and that five emergency shelters had been set up in Puerto Vallarta.

    The National Water Commission said rains from Roslyn could cause mudslides and flooding. and the U.S. hurricane center warned of dangerous storm surge along the coast, as well as 4 to 6 inches of rain.

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  • At least 28 killed as Julia tears through Central America

    At least 28 killed as Julia tears through Central America

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    Former Hurricane Julia tore a deadly path through Guatemala and El Salvador on Monday, killing dozens and drenching the nations with torrential rains. At least 28 people were reported dead as a direct or indirect result of the storm.

    Guatemala’s disaster prevention agency said five people died after a hillside collapsed on their house in Alta Verapaz province, burying them. And in Huehuetenango province, near Mexico, nine people died, including a soldier killed while performing rescue work.

    Authorities in El Salvador said five Salvadoran army soldiers died after a wall collapsed at a house where they sought refuge in the town of Comasagua, where hundreds of police and soldiers have been conducting anti-gang raids. Another soldier was injured.

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    View of a fallen wall following the passage of Tropical Storm Julia, in Antiguo Cuscatlan, El Salvador, on October 10, 2022. 

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    Two other people died in the eastern El Salvador town of Guatajiagua after heavy rains caused a wall of their home to collapse. Another man in El Salvador died when he was swept away by a current, and another died when a tree fell on him.

    Rivers overflowed their banks and El Salvador declared a state of emergency and opened 80 storm shelters.

    In neighboring Honduras, a 22-year-old woman died when she was swept away by currents, and three people died when their boat swamped or capsized. A man in Nicaragua was killed by a falling tree.

    Julia hit Nicaragua’s central Caribbean coast early Sunday as a hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 85 mph and survived the passage over the country’s mountainous terrain, entering the Pacific late in the day as a tropical storm..

    By Monday, Julia had moved inland over Guatemala and its winds were down to 30 mph. 

    The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Julia was centered about 80 miles west-northwest of Guatemala City, and was moving west-northwest at 15 mph. 

    The center said floods and mudslides were possible across Central America and southern Mexico through Tuesday, with the storm expected to bring as much as 15 inches of rain in isolated areas.

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    A resident rides his bike in a flooded street following the passage of Hurricane Julia in the town of Bluefields, on the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua on October 9, 2022.

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    In Guatemala, two people were listed as missing and two were hospitalized, and about 1,300 people had to leave their homes because of flooding and rising streams.

    Julia was expected to dissipate later Monday as it passes along the Guatemalan coast.

    Colombia’s national disaster agency reported Sunday that Julia blew the roofs off several houses and knocked over trees as it blasted past San Andres Island east of Nicaragua. There were no immediate reports of fatalities there. 

    In Nicaragua, Vice President Rosario Murillo told TN8 television that 9,500 people had been evacuated to shelters.

    Heavy rains and evacuations were also reported in Panama, Honduras and Costa Rica, where some highways were closed due to the downpours.

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  • Weather update today: IMD issues heavy rain alert for Delhi-NCR; schools shut in Noida, Ghaziabad

    Weather update today: IMD issues heavy rain alert for Delhi-NCR; schools shut in Noida, Ghaziabad

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    Heavy rainfall spell is likely to continue over Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, West Madhya Pradesh, and East Rajasthan during the next 2 days, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Sunday. Delhi too is expected to receive moderate to isolated heavy rainfall on Monday, with a yellow alert issued for all the districts. Delhi and NCR have witnessed heavy rainfall in the past few days leading to massive traffic jams and waterlogging in parts of the capital city, Noida, and Gurugram.
     
    The weather office has issued a red, orange, and yellow alert for most districts of Uttar Pradesh for Monday. A yellow alert has been sounded for Noida and Ghaziabad. The IMD in its latest update said that rain and thunderstorms are likely to strike parts of the state from October 9-12. “Thunderstorm accompanied by lightning is very likely at isolated places over the state from October 9-12. Heavy rain is very likely at isolated places over the state on October 10,” it said.
     
    Uttar Pradesh has shut schools in Lucknow, Noida, Agra, Ghaziabad, and Kanpur from Classes 1 to 12 on Monday on account of excessive rainfall. In UP, the IMD has issued a red alert for seven districts/cities – Kanpur, Kanpur Dehat, Unnao, Lucknow, Fatehpur, Hamirpur, and Raebareli. These regions have received heavy rainfall in the past few days.  
     
    Kanpur Dehat ADM Jagadamba Prasad Gupta on Sunday said that two persons and more than eight animals had been killed due to lightning strikes in the district the previous day. 
     
    The weather office has also predicted heavy rainfall in southern states. It said a heavy rainfall spell is expected over Tamil Nadu and Rayalaseema during the next 5 days and over Coastal Andhra Pradesh and Telangana during the next 24 hours.

    As per the forecast, fairly widespread to isolated heavy rainfall is likely over Rayalaseema, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, and Karaikal from 10th to 13th; Coastal Andhra Pradesh and Telangana on 12th and 13th; north interior Karnataka on 10th and 11th; South Interior Karnataka during 9th-11th and over Kerala on 10th October 2022. 
     

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  • Julia makes landfall as Category 1 storm in Nicaragua, brings

    Julia makes landfall as Category 1 storm in Nicaragua, brings

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    Hurricane Julia hit Nicaragua’s central Caribbean coast on Sunday and dumped torrential rains across Central America before an expected reemergence over the Pacific.

    Julia hit as a Category 1 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 85 mph, though its winds had dipped to tropical storm force of 50 mph by the evening as it pushed across Nicaragua.

    As of 5 p.m. ET, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said Julia was centered about 45 miles west-northwest of Managua, the capital, and was moving west at 16 mph.

    It said life-threatening flash floods and mudslides were possible across Central America and southern Mexico through Tuesday, with the storm expected to bring as much as 15 inches of rain in isolated areas.

    Colombia’s national disaster agency reported Sunday that Julia blew the roofs off several houses and knocked over trees as it blasted past San Andres Island east of Nicaragua. There were no immediate reports of fatalities

    In Nicaragua, Vice President Rosario Murillo told TN8 television that there had been no reports of deaths so far, but power and communications were cut to some areas. She said that 9,500 people had been evacuated to shelters.

    Local news media showed images of trees toppled across roads and local flooding.

    Heavy rains and evacuations were also reported in Panama, Honduras and Costa Rica, where some highways were closed due to the downpours.

    Guillermo González, director of Nicaragua’s Disaster Response System, told official media that people at high risk had been evacuated from coastal areas by noon Saturday. The army said it delivered humanitarian supplies to Bluefields and Laguna de Perlas for distribution to 118 temporary shelters.

    The storm was forecast to emerge over the Pacific and skirt the coasts of El Salvador and Guatemala, a region already saturated by weeks of heavy rains.

    In Guatemala, storms since early May had already caused at least 49 confirmed deaths, with six people missing. Roads and hundreds of homes have been damaged, Guatemalan officials say.

    In El Salvador, where 19 people have died this rainy season, the worst rainfall was expected Monday and Tuesday, said Fernando López, the minister of environmental and natural resources. Officials said they had opened 61 shelters with the capacity to house more than 3,000 people.

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  • Weather updates today: Rain to continue in Delhi-NCR, IMD issues yellow alert

    Weather updates today: Rain to continue in Delhi-NCR, IMD issues yellow alert

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    Moderate to heavy rain is likely to continue in Delhi and NCR during the next 24 hours, the weather forecasting agency said on Sunday. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued a yellow alert for all districts of the national capital, which has witnessed incessant rainfall in the past few days leading to massive traffic jams and waterlogging in parts of the city. 

    In its latest update, the weather agency said that Delhi recorded heavy rain on 8-9 October (24 hours till 8:30 am today) – 74.3mm, 87.2mm, and 85.2mm at Safdarjung, Lodhi Road, and Ayaynagar observatories respectively. As per rainfall recorded on Sunday, it’s not record-breaking rainfall for October in terms of daily 24 hours rain amount, the IMD said. 

    On Sunday, the city woke up to waterlogging in several parts after heavy rainfall in the past two days. Several parts of Noida and Ghaziabad also witnessed waterlogging due to heavy showers. 

    In its weather update released on Saturday, the weather office said that moderate to heavy rainfall is likely over Uttarakhand, East Uttar Pradesh and West Madhya Pradesh during 8th–10th; West Uttar Pradesh, and East Rajasthan on 8th and 9th; Haryana, Chandigarh and Delhi on 8th and East Madhya Pradesh on 11th October. 

    Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh are predicted to witness isolated very heavy rainfall on Sunday. Uttarakhand has been hit by heavy rainfall in the past two days. In Champawat, the Tanakpur-Pithoragarh road has been closed due to landslides triggered by heavy downpours. 

    “Heavy rainfall spells are likely to continue over Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, West Madhya Pradesh, and East Rajasthan during next 2-3 days,” the IMD said on Saturday. It also added that enhancement of rainfall activity is expected over Tamil Nadu during the next 4 days and over Coastal Andhra Pradesh during the next 2 days. 
     

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  • Photos show Hurricane Ian’s catastrophic damage

    Photos show Hurricane Ian’s catastrophic damage

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    Ian, which made landfall in the United States as a hurricane twice, left many areas unrecognizable after it unleashed catastrophic flooding, powerful winds and a damaging storm surge in Florida and the Carolinas. As search and rescue efforts continue, the storm‘s death toll is rising, and communities are reeling from the devastation. 

    On Wednesday, Ian made landfall in southwestern Florida as a Category 4 hurricane. After racing across the peninsula and going out into the Atlantic Ocean, the storm made a second landfall — this time as a Category 1 hurricane — in South Carolina on Friday.

    At least 28 people died due to the storm, and many more were left without a home. New photos show the extensive damage from what could be one of the strongest storms to have ever hit the U.S.:

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    Holly Ciaglia looks for her and her partner Evan Mackay’s personal belongings on the ground at the Red Coconut RV Park in Fort Myers Beach, Florida, on Friday, Sept. 30, 2022. Two days earlier, their mobile home was destroyed during Hurricane Ian.

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    A view of damage after of Hurricane Ian brought wind and heavy rain causing power outages and downing trees in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Oct. 1, 2022

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    University of Central Florida students try to get into their apartment near the campus, which was totally flooded by rain from Hurricane Ian, on Sept. 30, 2022, in Orlando, Florida.

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    A car drives through high water caused by Hurricane Ian, on Sept. 30, 2022, in Charleston, South Carolina.

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    A Sanibel Island resident hands off her dog to rescuers from Project DYNAMO after she was rescued and transported to Fort Myers on Sept. 30, 2022.

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    An unidentified volunteer and Ken Diesel, right, help cook food for people in need in Fort Myers, Florida, on Sept. 30, 2022.

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    A motorist drives though high water in Charleston, South Carolina, as another turns around, on Sept. 30, 2022.

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    University of Central Florida students evacuate after an apartment complex near the campus, which experienced heavy flooding, on Sept. 30, 2022.

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    A view of high waters in North Port, Florida, on Sept. 30, 2022.

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    Debris is seen on Sanibel Island, Florida, on Sept. 30, 2022.

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    In this aerial photo made in a flight provided by mediccorps.org, damage from Hurricane Ian is seen on Estero Island in Fort Myers Beach, Florida, on Sept. 30, 2022.

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    A damaged causeway to Florida’s Sanibel Island is seen in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian on Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022.

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    Destruction left by Hurricane Ian in Pine Island and Matlacha, Florida. “The devastation is heartbreaking,” the Lee County Sheriff’s Office wrote on its Facebook page on Sept. 30, 2022.

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    Destruction left by Hurricane Ian in Pine Island and Matlacha, Florida, on Sept. 30, 2022.

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    A damaged restaurant on the island of Matlacha, Florida, with debris scattered across the outside on Sept. 30, 2022.

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    Tori B. Powell is a breaking news reporter at CBS News. Reach her at tori.powell@viacomcbs.com

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  • Live Updates: Hurricane Ian makes landfall in Florida as powerful Category 4 storm

    Live Updates: Hurricane Ian makes landfall in Florida as powerful Category 4 storm

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    “I wish this wasn’t a forecast I had to deliver,” National Weather Service Director Ken Graham said Wednesday as federal officials gave a dire update on Hurricane Ian.

    “This is going to be a storm that we talk about for many years to come,” he said, adding that the majority of the state will be in Ian’s “crosshairs,” including inland areas.

    Ian’s winds are as strong as 155 mph and extend 35 miles beyond the eye of the storm.

    “It’s not just right there in the center. It’s a bigger impact from all this,” Graham said.

    Ian will take 24 hours or so to move across the state after the eye of the storm reaches land, Graham said, setting up a dangerous situation for millions. Powerful winds and rain, on top of slow movement, could contribute to some places seeing up to 18 feet of storm surge and up to 2 feet of rain alone.

    Even Florida’s east coast is expected to see some storm surge and strong winds, he said, and tornadoes will continue to be a threat, mostly in the front right quadrant of the storm.

    Gail McGovern, CEO of American Red Cross, said nearly 500 Red Cross responders are ready and shelter supplies are prepared for 60,000 people. By the end of the weekend, she anticipates more than 2,500 Red Cross responders will be deployed.

    “To everyone in the path of the storm: Please, please, please follow the evacuation instructions from your elected officials and your local officials,” McGovern said. “We know that for many of you, recovery from Hurricane Ian will likely be a very long road, and your American Red Cross will be there.”

    FEMA has staged 3.7 million meals and 3.5 million liters of water ahead of landfall. 300 ambulances – the same used to help the state during the COVID-19 pandemic – are ready to assist. 

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