IF YOU listened to the media, you’d think that Florida had never had hurricanes before.
Last week when the Category 3 Hurricane Idalia hit the Sunshine State, Sky News called it ‘unprecedented’, even though such storms are commonplace there.
A huge search and rescue effort is continuing in Florida in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian, which cut a swathe of destruction across the US state.
At least 10 people have died in the state but officials fear the confirmed toll could rise considerably.
Hurricane Ian made landfall Wednesday in western Florida at 2:24 p.m. — causing panic and wreaking havoc as it destroyed buildings, ripped trees from the ground, caused cars to float away and flooded houses up to their roofs.
Ian is forecast to approach the west coast of Florida as an extremely dangerous hurricane, forecasters said in an 11 p.m. update from the National Hurricane Center.
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