A revived Hurricane Ian pounded coastal South Carolina on Friday, ripping apart piers and flooding streets after the ferocious storm caused catastrophic damage in Florida, trapping thousands in their homes and leaving at least 30 people dead.
Ian strengthened back to a Category 1 hurricane as it moved west over the Atlantic toward the U.S. eastern coast, after making landfall in Florida as a major Category 4 storm on Wednesday with 150 mph winds.
South Carolina Senator Tim Scott says thousands are without power across the state as Ian made landfall. Now a post-tropical cyclone, Ian is moving up the East Coast. Scott says around 200-thousand people are without power, and that now is not the time to ease up worries.
Ian’s center came ashore near Georgetown, South Carolina, on Friday with much weaker winds than when it crossed Florida’s Gulf Coast earlier in the week, the storm left many areas of Charleston’s downtown peninsula under water. It also washed away parts of four piers along the coast, including two at Myrtle Beach.
Meanwhile, around 2 million are without power in Florida. A 14-mile stretch of Interstate 75 was closed in both directions in the Port Charlotte area because of the amount of water in the Myakka River.
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