Armando Escalona, a 43-year-old taxi driver, said he was attending an evangelical church service with his family when the flood waters caught them by surprise. The streets of Tejerias, a town of about 73,000 inhabitants, were filled with mud, boulders and tangled tree branches and lined by boarded-up houses, according to Reuters witnesses. "What has happened in the town of Tejerias is a tragedy." President Nicolas Maduro said in a tweet that he had designated the area a disaster zone and had declared three days of mourning. "We have lost boys, girls," the vice president said from a flooded street in Tejerias. Rodriguez said that the priority was to locate people still trapped under mud and rocks throughout the town, while military and rescue personnel also searched the riverbanks for survivors. Rodriguez said that a month's worth of rain had fallen in just eight hours and pumps used to power the community's drinking water system were carried away in the flood waters, she said. The downpour on Saturday night swept large tree trunks and debris from surrounding mountains into the community of Tejerias, 40 miles (67 kilometers) southwest of Caracas, damaging businesses and farmland, Rodriguez said in a televised address. That meant residents who evacuated were technically blocked from returning.Reuters | Updated: 10-10-2022 05:40 IST | Created: 10-10-2022 05:40 ISTĪt least 22 people died and 52 were missing after five small rivers in central Venezuela flooded due to heavy rains, Venezuela Vice President Delcy Rodriguez said Sunday. Officials on the island had ordered a complete curfew after the storm passed, allowing search and rescue teams to do their work. The broken causeway to Sanibel Island might not be passable until the end of the month. Officials estimate the storm has caused billions of dollars in damage. Beaches disappeared, as ocean surges pushed shorelines far inland. Backyard waterways overflowed into neighborhoods, sometimes by more than a dozen feet (3.5 meters), tossing boats onto yards and roadways. The deluge turned streets into gushing rivers. Ian, a Category 4 storm with sustained winds of 150 miles per hour (240 kilometers per hour), unleashed torrents of rain and caused extensive flooding and damage. The flames were so large that they forced Breslin to do what the hurricane could not - flee with her husband and a neighbor’s dog. Her husband had passed away, his body laid out on a picnic table until help could arrive. When she checked on a neighbor, she found the woman crying. Pamela Brislin arrived by boat to see what she could salvage.īrislin had stayed through the storm, but is haunted by what happened afterward. Residents of Florida’s devastated barrier islands are starting to return, assessing the damage to homes and businesses despite limited access to some areas. was the Great Galveston Hurricane in 1900 that killed as many as 8,000 people. The deadliest hurricane ever to hit the U.S. in the 21st century behind Hurricane Katrina, which left more than 1,800 people dead in 2005. Ian is the second-deadliest storm to hit the mainland U.S. Five people were also killed in North Carolina, three in Cuba and one in Virginia. According to reports from the Florida Medical Examiners Commission, 92 of those deaths were in Florida. The number of storm-related deaths rose to at least 101 on Thursday, eight days after the storm made landfall in southwest Florida.
Pick it up and shake it - that’s what happened,” said Fred Szott.įor the past three days, he and his wife Joyce have been making trips to their damaged mobile home in Fort Myers, cleaning up after Hurricane Ian slammed into Florida’s Gulf Coast.Īs for the emotional turbulence, he says: “You either hold on, or you lose it.” Huge shrimp boats sit perched amid the remains of a mobile home park. On the mainland, debris from washed-away homes is heaped in a canal like matchsticks. (AP) - Rotting fish and garbage lie scattered in Sanibel Island’s streets.
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