The destruction caused by Hurricane Ian has left 600,000 Florida homes without power and many without clean water after the storm battered Florida, Cuba and the US east coast
hit the coast of Florida on 27 September
“We’re just beginning to see the scale of that destruction. It’s likely to rank among the worst… in the nation’s history,” said US president Joe Biden inThe category 4 hurricane blasted Florida with 250-kilometre-per-hour winds, more than 3.5 metres of storm surge and more than 40 centimetres of rainfall in some areas. Damage is concentrated in Florida’s Lee County, which includes the cities of Fort Myers, Cape Coral, Bonita Springs and Sanibel Island.
“The biggest challenge with power restoration is going to be in those areas that bore the brunt of the category 4 plus, almost category 5, impact where it may have uprooted some of the existing infrastructure,” said Florida governor Ron DeSantis in. “Now, that will be fixed – it’s just not something that gets fixed in 24 or 48 hours.”
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