TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The U.S. Coast Guard began performing hurricane rescue missions on barrier islands off southwest Florida early Thursday, as soon as the winds died down, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said at a news conference.
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“The Coast Guard had people who were in their attics and got saved off their rooftops,” DeSantis said. The most vulnerable areas were along the barrier islands of Lee, Charlotte and Collier counties, along with inlets and inland areas along rivers.
Power failures from Hurricane Ian are significant, he said. Two counties, Lee and Charlotte, “are basically off the grid at this point,” the governor said, and will likely have to rebuild the power structure.
“We’ve never seen storm surge of this magnitude,” DeSantis said. “The amount of water that’s been rising, and will likely continue to rise today even as the storm is passing, is basically a 500-year flooding event.”
An earlier report of hundreds of deaths in Lee County has not been confirmed and was likely an estimate based on 911 calls, the governor said.
DeSantis said he will ask the federal government to expand its emergency declaration to cover counties in central Florida that are also reporting damage.
The degenerate descent of mankind
echoes dor hamabul. Fear of Hashem is a much needed antidote right now.
Ahavas Yisroel and Ayin Tovah is necessary to navigate our journey to Geulah. Let’s Do It Now!
He opposed relief funds for Sandy. Maybe if New York has another need he’ll be more understanding. He should fly those migrants back from Martha’s Vineyard and hire them to help with the clean up.
All these historic storms in recent years… Anyone want to continue playing Russian roulette with CO2 emissions and its potential for climate change or can we all agree that we should move faster and put more money towards moving off fossil fuels. And it would also reduce geopolitical concerns related to oil.
As long as we have deviants trying to change their gender G-D will continue to change the climate.
global worming is a chines hoax, just like Covid was a chines hoax
Desantis seems to be a real leader. He isn’t sleepy and is there when we need him as he was in Surfside. he laso doesn’t play piety politics in times of crisis. (I confess Trump is guilty of that at times)
To those who say, well then why did he vote against sandy funds? Well I think if you look at what endded happening its obvious. That wasn’t just a relief bill. it was loaded with pork. And we all know people whio milked it dry with nonsense and scams