More than 2.2 million energy customers across Florida were still without power as of early Friday morning, with more than 400,000 customers in Lee County alone left in the dark.
Striking videos and photos emerging from Florida have captured the level of devastation across the state, with some footage showing heroic rescues of people stranded in submerged cars and wading into floodwaters, while others portray the destruction left in Ian’s wake.
Taking aim at South CarolinaIan barreled towards South Carolina’s coast Friday morning, with the storm expected to make landfall later in the day.
The hurricane was downgraded to a tropical storm on Thursday, but strengthened again into a hurricane, with maximum sustained winds of 85 mph and higher gusts, according to the National Hurricane Center.
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