the west coast. we are not going to see storm surge quite as high on the east coast. but still, we could see some flooding as well. so, storm surge is a wall of water, it gets pushed on by wind, and it is salt water moving on to dry land. so, you have that in addition to the freshwater deadliest number one reason why giant hurricanes, it s always due to the water. especially in low-lying areas fellowship of these, that s why we saw that flooding, especially on the west coast. that can certainly happen in portions of the carolinas into the east coast of florida and also portions of georgia as well. we are going to see dangerous beach conditions. hopefully you re not thinking of going to the beach. you want to heed any warnings. i know there s not a lifeguard working at this hour. dangerous rip currents. we are looking at winds, also tropical storm force winds. as we go throughout time here, that s going to continue to go through our trees and also lines. tropical hours. 21 milli
leading up to this you are evacuating. some of them were lifelong floridians for the very first time despite experiencing a plethora of hurricanes prior to this. but this one different, a lot of them decided to move further inland. people who wouldn t normally make that choice. right now, it seems like this area has gotten quite lucky and things have not been nearly as severe as initially there was the potential for high severity levels and lack of damage. we have not seen a whole lot of damage so far. once the sun comes up in the morning, we will be able to better get a better assessment of things. but in terms of just rainfall, winds, there were moments where it felt like much more powerful you could sense, you could feel very much that you are getting some of the outer bands of the hurricane. but for hours now, things had been in a situation where moving ahead in the days to come, with the city, this area, becomes a place that, and a lot of, ways
i m alicia menendez, and this is msnbc s continuing breaking news coverage of hurricane. it is midnight in florida and in just a few hours, on the southwest coast, first look at the aftermath of hurricane ian. how many people are trapped, how many of them can be rescued. that while parts of central florida are bracing for impact, a storm that hit the southwest coast of florida this afternoon, and just shy of a category five hurricane, with winds up to 150
you have the saturated ground with all that rain falling. we could see some trees coming, down some power lines, that wind is howling, with that rain falling. so, we could see more power outages. here is the latest. and the next advisory comes out and about 20 minutes. winds are at 90 miles an hour. it s south of orlando, florida. so, those winds are kicking. we have been overland for quite awhile. notice all this rain falling as well. it is moving very slowly, so we are going to see crawl across the peninsula of florida over the next 36 hours or so. that s why we are going to see so much rain. we are still under so much tropical alerts. that s really indicating that this weather is still here. and we still have a lot to contend with as we go through the next couple of days, not only in florida, it s going to move to the southeast portions of florida, also south carolina and north carolina, and then eventually into the mid-atlantic. we are not done with a, story we are gonna be talki
especially my district. to that question about recovery, any sense of how long until power might begin to be restored there? you know what, earlier in the day, i was basically operating a command center on marco island and, given a lot of direction, and power with the problem. we have full tv and wi-fi. it was because the winds really went that bad. and that s what normally knocks out a lot of those things. but as the water came in, and then we got hit with was a bit of everything, and then we ve been in the dark for a while. i was without power here in marco island here for ten days. and so there s a lot of little communities around here, and it takes a lot a while to get back, especially when one of the poles has gone down. we won t really know a full assessment until tomorrow, as to how quickly restore power. there s a lot of people that did evacuate, so we might have a lot of homes without power. but not necessarily a lot of people. but i know we will work really hard to ge