: Florida Rescue Efforts Continue as Death Toll From Hurricane Ian Rises #WorldNEWS PAWLEYS ISLAND, S. C. — Rescuers searched for survivors among the ruins of Floridas flooded homes from Hurricane

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Florida Rescue Efforts Continue as Death Toll From Hurricane Ian Rises #WorldNEWS
PAWLEYS ISLAND, S. C. — Rescuers searched for survivors among the ruins of Floridas flooded homes from Hurricane Ian while authorities in South Carolina began assessing damage from its strike there as the remnants of one of the strongest and costliest hurricanes to ever hit the U. S. continued to push north.
The powerful storm terrorized millions of people for most of the week, battering western Cuba before raking across Florida from the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico to the Atlantic Ocean, where it mustered enough strength for a final assault on South Carolina. Now weakened to a post-tropical cyclone, Ian was expected to move across central North Carolina on Saturday morning then move into Virginia and New York.


At least 30 people were confirmed dead, including 27 people in Florida mostly from drowning but others from the storms tragic aftereffects. An elderly couple died after their oxygen machines shut off when they lost power, authorities said.
Meanwhile, distraught residents waded through knee-high water Friday, salvaging what possessions they could from their flooded homes and loading them onto rafts and canoes.
“I want to sit in the corner and cry. I dont know what else to do,” Stevie Scuderi said after shuffling through her mostly destroyed Fort Myers apartment, the mud in her kitchen clinging to her purple sandals.
In South Carolina, Ians center came ashore near Georgetown, a small community along the Winyah Bay about 60 miles (95 kilometers) north of historic Charleston. The storm washed away parts of four piers along the coast, including two connected to the popular tourist town of Myrtle Beach.
The storms winds were much weaker Friday than during Ians landfall on Floridas Gulf Coast earlier in the week. Authorities and volunteers there were still assessing the damage as shocked residents tried to make sense of what they just lived through.
Anthony Rivera, 25, said he had to climb through the window of his first floor apartment during the storm to carry his grandmother and girlfriend to the second floor. As they hurried to escape the rising water, the storm surge had washed a boat right up next to his apartment.
“Thats the scariest thing in the world because I cant stop no boat,” he said. “Im not Superman. ”
Pawleys Island, a beach community about 73 miles (117 kilometers) up South Carolina’s coast from Charleston, was among the places hardest hit by Ian.
Eddie Wilder, who has been coming to Pawleys Island for more than six decades, said Fridays storm was “insane to watch. He said waves as high as 25 feet (7. 6 meters) washed away the pier, just two doors down from his home.

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