The current goal is to restore power by Sunday to customers whose power lines and other electric infrastructure is still intact, Florida Division of Emergency Management Director Kevin Guthrie said Monday. What roads remained above water were blocked, according to the Nassau County Sheriff’s Office, which was assisting with the efforts.
Many residents in the rural county of about 37,000 people could only be reached by boat. In DeSoto County, northeast of Fort Myers, the Peace River and tributaries reached record high levels. The situation in many areas wasn’t expected to improve for several days because waterways were overflowing, leaving the rain that fell with nowhere to go. Washed-out bridges to barrier islands, flooded roadways, isolated cellphone service and a lack of water, electricity or the internet left hundreds of thousands still isolated. More than 1,600 people have been rescued statewide, according to Florida’s emergency management agency.įort Myers Beach Mayor Ray Murphy told NBC’s “Today Show” that residents who evacuated were largely being kept away from their homes because of searches likely to last a few more days. Search and rescue efforts were still ongoing Monday in Florida. Coastal flooding was possible from North Carolina’s Outer Banks to Long Island, the National Weather Service said.Īt least 68 people have been confirmed dead: 61 in Florida, four in North Carolina and three in Cuba since Ian made its first landfall on the Caribbean island on Sept. Norfolk and Virginia Beach declared states of emergency as they watched to see how bad Monday’s high tides would be. Forecasters said the storm’s onshore winds could pile even more water into an already inundated Chesapeake Bay and threatened to cause the most significant tidal flooding event in Virginia’s Hampton Roads region in more than a decade.
The mid-Atlantic and Northeast coasts were getting flooding rains. (AP) - Days after the skies cleared and the winds died down in Florida, Hurricane Ian’s effects persisted Monday, as people faced another week without power and others were being rescued from homes inundated with lingering floodwaters.įrustrations mounted in the path the storm cut through Florida, and the hurricane’s remnants, now a nor’easter, weren’t done with the U.S.
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