Passengers react as plane flies into Hurricane Ian: 'Oh s***'
"Hurricane Ian made for a rough ride during a NOAA WP-3D Kermit Hurricane Hunter flight into the storm this morning," NOAA wrote in the caption to the post.
Over the last few days, the NOAA Twitter page has been sharing updates from the National Weather Service on the path of the hurricane as well as preventative and reactionary measures than can be taken., authorities warned coastal communities on the state's peninsula of"catastrophic" storm surges, which occur when water is pushed inland from the ocean, potentially triggering severe flooding.
Ian made landfall in Florida as a Category 4 storm, with maximum sustained winds of 150 mph, before it weakened over land. Potentially one of the most severe hurricanes to hit Florida, Ian brought record-breaking floods to the southwestern tip of the state.2.
PowerOutage.us showed that the most affected areas in Florida are DeSoto County, with a power outage estimated at 91.7 percent and over 17,000 people affected, Charlotte, with a power outage estimated at 91.6 percent and over 116,000 people affected, and Hardee, with an estimated power outage of 99.5 percent and over 9,500 customers left in the dark.
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