Hurricane Ian is still in full destructive mode, as it continues to barrel the Bay Area in the United States. Hurricane Ian crashed into the South Carolina seaside on Friday afternoon, making another landslide after destroying lands and houses across the Florida peninsula and stranding thousands along the state’s Gulf Coast.
Weather authorities have predicted that Ian would bring life-threatening flooding, storm ripples, and whirlwinds to South Carolina, Georgi, and North Carolina.
In a statement, Kevin Guthrie, director of the state’s Division of Emergency Management said that Hurricane Ian had taken about 21 lives in Florida.
Before the storm on Friday, the authorities ordered clear roads in South Carolina, and Charleston International Airport was closed because of high winds.
The National Weather Service warned of “life-threatening” storm surges along 125 miles (201 kilometers) of the South Carolina coast, from Isle of Palms near Charleston to the North Carolina border, although Charleston had already been dealing with heavy rainfall and minor flooding.
Matt Storen, a police sergeant in Isle of Palms said:
“We are in the heart of it right now. A lot of power outages, we are getting some downed trees.”
Fort Myers, a city close to where the eye of the storm first came ashore, absorbed a major blow, with many houses destroyed.
