Hurricane-force winds expected across central Florida early today with widespread, catastrophic flooding likely
Hurricane Ian left a path of destruction in southwest Florida, trapping people in flooded homes, damaging the roof of a hospital intensive care unit and knocking out power to 2 million people before aiming for the Atlantic Coast.
Water gushed down onto the ICU, forcing staff to evacuate the hospital’s sickest patients — some of whom were on ventilators — to other floors, said Dr. Birgit Bodine of HCA Florida Fawcett Hospital. Staff members used towels and plastic bins to try to mop up the sodden mess. Wind gusts blow across boats in the Sarasota Bay as Hurricane Ian churns to the south on Sept. 28, 2022, in Sarasota, Fla.A tree is uprooted by strong winds as Hurricane Ian churns to the south in Sarasota, Fla.A man walks through the mudflats as the tide recedes from Tampa Bay as Hurricane Ian approaches on Sept. 28, 2022, in Tampa.People look from Bayshore Boulevard in Tampa as the tide recedes from Tampa Bay as Hurricane Ian approaches.
The storm was about 90 km southwest of Orlando with maximum sustained winds of 120 km-h at 2 a.m. Thursday, the Miami-based hurricane center said. No deaths were reported in the United States from Ian by late Wednesday but a boat carrying Cuban migrants sank Wednesday in stormy weather east of Key West.
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