Five days after Hurricane Ian cut a swath of destruction across Florida and the Carolinas as one of the strongest storms ever to hit the U.S. mainland, officials are still assessing the damage.
As of Monday morning, at least 85 deaths had been attributed to the storm, including 81 in Florida, which took the brunt of Ian's power when the storm slammed into the state's Gulf Coast last Wednesday as a Category 4 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 150 miles per hour .More than half of the reported fatalities occurred in coastal Lee County, where officials have defended their decision not to order evacuations sooner.
Rescue crews have visited about 45,000 homes and businesses in affected areas, Kevin Guthrie, the state's emergency management director, told reporters on Monday.PROPERTY DAMAGE That total, which includes damage from wind, storm surge and flooding, excludes losses covered by the U.S. government's National Flood Insurance Program or costs associated with litigation, among other elements. Those could bring the top end of the estimated range closer to $60 billion, Verisk said. Virtually all of the losses stem from Florida.
Ian also left more than 1.1 million homes and businesses in North and South Carolina without power over the weekend, though most of those customers have since had their power restored.
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