In Lee County, which includes Fort Myers, just south of where Hurricane Ian made landfall, the sheriff’s Office also posted a phone number family and friends can call for welfare checks.
and causing at least one confirmed death — although authorities feared the toll could be far higher. in water in a canal behind his home in Deltona near Daytona Beach, the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement. It said he appeared to be using a hose to drain his pool into the wide canal and fell down an incline that was "extremely soft and slippery due to the heavy rain."
Fort Myers Mayor Kevin Anderson told NBC’s "Today" that he had not been told of any deaths in the city. He said Ian by far was the worst storm he has witnessed since he first came to the area in the 1970s.FOX Weather's Robert Ray checks on damage at one of the marinas in Fort Myers, near where Hurricane Ian made landfall.
Emergency crews sawed through toppled trees to reach people in flooded homes, but with no electricity and virtually no cell service, it was impossible for many people to call for help from the hardest hit coastal areas where the surge came in. officially declared a major disaster in Florida over the devastation and was scheduled to visit FEMA headquarters in Washington, D.C. later Thursday. FOX 35 reporter Randi Hildreth reports live from Central Florida in the middle of Hurricane Ian. The now tropical storm caused severe flooding throughout the state of Florida.Ian's center came ashore more than 100 miles south of Tampa and St.
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