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Ian made landfall as a Category 1 hurricane with winds at 85 mph near Georgetown, South Carolina, just after 2 p.m. Friday.
The storm made its first U.S. landfall on Florida’s west coast on Wednesday as a powerful Category 4 hurricane.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster have each declared a state of emergency.
Sanibel, Florida Mayor Holly Smith said that her city will not be the same following Hurricane Ian’s catastrophic impact.
Smith said she was on the island for four hours Friday and witnessed the devastation firsthand.
«Unless you’re on the ground, you really can’t take in the gravity of what we experienced. It’s a different Sanibel,» Smith Live Prime.
Smith said that she was checking in on 300 residents and that it was very important to make contact.
«As far as we know at this point, the number of fatalities recorded are four,» Smith said.
«This is going to be a very long recovery process,» Smith added of the efforts to get everybody off the island and to safety. «It’s not habitable.»
Key West did not escape hardship, but in Ian’s wake, many Key West residents have expressed relief that the coastal city hadn’t endured far worse.
