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Sep 30, 2022 · At least 21 people have been reported dead in Florida after Ian tore across the peninsula, the state emergency director said, a tally that would make the storm the deadliest in the state’s ...
- Why Warnings Went Unheard
- ‘I Was Ready to Say My Last Prayer’
- A Lesson For Future Storms
One of the most common reasons people chose not to leave areas at high risk of storm surge was that they had survived hurricanes before unscathed. It is human nature for people to measure their risk in a coming storm by comparing it to storms they’ve weathered in the past. But that calculation is wrong, experts say. Every hurricane is different, an...
By dawn on Tuesday, Sept. 27, Ian’s projected path put Lee County in the storm’s crosshairs. Over the previous 24 hours, the expected landfall had shifted about 80 miles south, according to the National Hurricane Center. At 7 a.m., Lee County officials ordered a mandatory evacuation for the county’s highest-risk areas. The directive expanded throug...
Plenty of people who stayed in the danger zone did so knowingly and willingly — and some refused offers of help. They included Kristina Peters, 59, who chose to stay with her boyfriend in North Fort Myers, where they lived a baseball’s throw away from the Gulf of Mexico. Her son Robert DeMoss drove to her house soon after Lee County’s evacuation or...
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Oct 1, 2022 · The death toll from Hurricane Ian has climbed to at least 45 after the Medical Examiners Commission of Florida identified three additional deaths in three counties.
Sep 30, 2022 · The toll in lives that Hurricane Ian exacted in Florida may take weeks to emerge, but the first list of confirmed deaths was released on Friday night by the state Medical Examiners...
Oct 2, 2022 · The four deaths bring the toll from Hurricane Ian so far to 48 fatalities, including 44 reported in Florida. The overall death toll could rise, as rescuers in Florida continue to search for...
Oct 4, 2022 · Death toll from Hurricane Ian surpasses 100 as the search for survivors continues in Florida By Nouran Salahieh and Dakin Andone , CNN 8 minute read
Oct 7, 2022 · Hurricane Ian’s death toll has climbed into the triple digits. The number of recorded storm-related deaths rose Thursday to at least 101 in the eight days since the storm made landfall in southwest Florida.
