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Ian deaths span Central Florida to Keys, include drownings, post-storm accidents and suicides

MIAMI — Hurricane Ian is one of the deadliest storms in Florida’s history, with more than 115 fatalities confirmed by state and county authorities. But the hurricane’s magnitude is also reflected in the geographic area in which those deaths occurred, spanning the peninsula from north of Daytona Beach to the…

Miami Herald

Hurricane Ian destroyed close to 8,000 homes in Cuba, damaged another 68,000, government says

Hurricane Ian, which hit western Cuba last week with Category 3 force winds and brought devastating flooding to the western provinces of Pinar del Río and Artemisa, destroyed more than 7,600 homes and damaged more than 68,000, Cuban authorities said.

Miami Herald

Their father, 87, evacuated for Hurricane Ian. Rattled by storm surge, he died in his car

The day Hurricane Ian hit Florida, Tom Cummiskey, 87, had evacuated his Fort Myers trailer and was driving about 35 miles east from the coast, fielding calls on his flip phone from friends and family urging him to get off the road.

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Homes Deemed ‘unlivable’ As Cleanup Efforts Continue In Florida

Florida's residents are only beginning to pick up the pieces after the havoc wreaked by Hurricane Ian

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Florida officials are scrambling to limit Hurricane Ian's impact on the election

Election officials in Florida say they are meeting a Thursday deadline to send out mail ballots, despite the hurricane. But in-person voting sites remain a concern.

WEKU

After Ian, Florida island residents return to assess damage

Residents of Florida’s Gulf Coast barrier islands are returning to assess the damage from Hurricane Ian, despite limited access to some areas

The Independent UK

This is how scientists will predict the next massive hurricane

An army of high-tech sailing drones has collected crucial data this hurricane season that could provide helpful insight into future storms.

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Man fell to his death attempting handstand on hotel balcony during Hurricane Ian

Markell Hope fell 15 floors to his death, says coroner’s office in South Carolina

The Independent UK

Hurricane Julia could form in the Caribbean Sea. What the forecast shows

MIAMI — A disturbance over the southern Caribbean Sea is expected to turn into a tropical depression soon, with the forecast calling for it to strengthen into a hurricane by the time it nears Nicaragua this weekend.

Miami Herald

Hurricane Ian: residents return to battered homes as death toll rises

Ian is the second-deadliest storm to strike the US in the 21st century

The Guardian - US

Jan. 6 committee hearing set for Oct. 13

The hearing had been postponed due to Hurricane Ian.

Axios

AccuWeather Forecasters Tracking More Tropical Activity In The Atlantic Basin

There are two new significant candidates for tropical development in the Atlantic basin this week, and although neither budding storm poses a threat to the United States at this time, at least one will drift westward across the Caribbean and bears watching for potential adverse conditions, AccuWeather meteorologists say

Zenger

Ian shakes up election preparations, could hurt Florida turnout

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Running an election in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian is going to be a monumental challenge for elections officials in the Florida counties hit hardest by the storm as they face poll worker shortages, damaged polling places and voters who lost their homes.

Orlando Sentinel

Real estate Q&A: What happens now with contract to buy property in path of hurricane?

Q: We are under contract to buy a property in the path of the recent hurricane. What happens now? — Anonymous

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Will Hurricane Ian cut Florida’s Gulf Coast real estate boom short?

Hurricanes have always posed an inevitable threat to Florida. But the risk hasn’t detered the droves of people who have flocked to the state since the start of the pandemic.

Miami Herald

Tropical depression expected to form in the Caribbean Sea soon. What the forecast shows

MIAMI — A disturbance just off the coast of Venezuela could turn into a tropical depression this week as it moves through the Caribbean Sea toward Central America.

Reuters

About 82,000 still without power in Puerto Rico two weeks after Fiona

Around 82,000 homes and businesses were still without power in Puerto Rico on Thursday, over two weeks after Hurricane Fiona caused an island-wide outage for its 3.3 million people.

Orlando Sentinel

Scott Maxwell: Florida knew the insurance crisis was coming. Lawmakers waged culture wars instead

Thanks to Hurricane Ian, Florida is about to experience an insurance crisis that could send your already-high rates even higher, limit your insurer choices even more and cost taxpayers billions.

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Florida's property insurance market was already under stress. Ian could make it worse

Rampant litigation, costlier storms and rising reinsurance costs have all combined to make chaos in Florida's home insurance market. Now, some worry Ian could send even more insurers out of the state.

WEKU

One Florida community built to weather hurricanes endured Ian with barely a scratch

Hundreds of thousands of people in Southwest Florida still don't have electricity or water. But Babcock Ranch, north of Fort Myers, was designed and built to withstand the most powerful storms.

Tribune News Service

Editorial: Searching for the living, finding the dead. Hurricane Ian takes toll on rescuers, too

They go from door to door, hoping to find survivors and accounting for the dead, a grueling mission that continues even as bright and sunny skies make monstrous Hurricane Ian seem like something out of our deepest nightmares.

Los Angeles Times

Michael Hiltzik: How the GOP counts on Democrats' goodwill to conceal its own cruelty

In a world where Republicans set political standards, one could expect that migrants would be abandoned in remote places without hope of succor and that funding for infrastructure construction and disaster relief would be provided only to GOP-led communities.

Daily Mirror

Brit couple evacuated amid Hurricane Ian endured four-day ordeal with no hot food or water

Chris and Sue Lawson flew across the Atlantic to visit one of Chris' lifetime friend, an American exchange student he met in a Hull Co-op, in Lee County, Florida as Hurricane Ian hit

Miami Herald

Can noncitizens get FEMA assistance after Hurricane Ian? Yes, under these conditions

A week after Hurricane Ian ravaged entire communities across Southwest Florida, people of all backgrounds are trying to put their lives back together by throwing away water-damaged furniture, removing mold-infested walls and finding a place to get a hot shower for the first time in a while.

The Independent UK

Son films himself swimming to save elderly mother from Hurricane Ian floods

Family thinks stranded mother was 20 minutes from drowning

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