

For more: /jvcEOYj64o- National Hurricane Center Septem9:00 p.m.: Ian expected to turn north, head to east coast of FloridaĪs of 8 p.m., Ian’s center was about 30 miles northeast of Punta Gorda and 95 miles south-southwest of Orlando.
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It lapped against a toppled palm tree, beside which Renas’ daughter usually waits for the school bus.About 100 yards up the street, a white car lay abandoned in the road, water up to the floorboards.ĩ PM EDT 9/28 Tropical Cyclone Update for Hurricane #Ian: A University of Florida Coastal Monitoring Program wind tower located near Punta Gorda recently reported sustained winds of 55 mph (89 km/h) with a wind gust of 78 mph (126 km/h). Murky brown seawater still soaked their front and side yards about 9:30 p.m. Then she looked outside and saw the floodwaters creeping closer. Renas said his 12-year-old daughter was having fun at first, treating shelter-in-place like camping trip. “Or a plane flying overhead,” Irwin said. “Like cars revving their engines,” said daughter Brianna Renas, 17. “The howling, just something I’ll never forget,” Renas said. He held onto one, he said, and his son, Zak Irwin, clutched the other. For hours, Renas said, it felt like the wind was going to suck out the doors. The wind was equally terrifying, shaking and lifting the eaves. The surge climbed to the edge of their house at the corner of Santa Barbara Boulevard and SE 39th Terrace. They never really considered evacuating for Ian, he said. “It was just blasting us for hours,” said Renas, who has lived in the area since he was 16. John Renas, 42, surveyed his yard with two of his children, their headlamps darting over knee-high floodwater. CAPE CORAL - Hours after Hurricane Ian made landfall near Caya Costa, this city that once rose improbably from wetlands was pitch black Wednesday night.
