![]() “Then I heard clink-clanking around on the patio out there as the chairs were falling around. Hollywood resident Gary Adams heard a boom outside his house Tuesday night, and the sound of something rolling across his roof. ![]() National Weather Service meteorologist Anthony Reynes said that tropical bands can produce wind gusts up to 40 or 50 mph, and take down trees.Ī King Point resident looks through her broken window on Wednesday as a man boards up a broken window from an overnight tornado spawned from Hurricane Ian at Kings Point 55+ community in Delray Beach. The National Hurricane Center has added hurricane warnings to the central east coast of Florida, as far south as Sebastian Inlet, as the storm now looks like it will remain more intact as it crosses the state. Petty Officer Nicole Groll, a spokesperson for Coast Guard District Seven, said officials are still searching for the 20 others, but that “the chances of them still being alive are not good.” Coast Guard Southeast officials said in a Tweet shortly before 3:30 p.m. They were hospitalized and treated for exhaustion and dehydration, U.S. Three of the missing people were rescued 2 miles south of Boca Chica, near Key West. Four migrants where able to swim ashore to Stock Island, just east of Key West, at 7:30 Wednesday morning, and informed Border Patrol officials that there were 23 others stranded at sea. The storm sank a boat carrying some 27 migrants off Key West. Several aircraft flipped upside down during an apparent tornado Tuesday night in Pembroke Pines at North Perry Airport.Īt North Perry Airport, 30 personal aircraft and hangars were damaged in a tornado in Pembroke Pines, said Arlene Satchell, spokesperson for the airport and Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. “I don’t have a nightgown,” said Harriet Finkel, lifting the white handbag that contained most of her remaining belongings. Some trickled out Wednesday afternoon, picked up by friends or family, but about half remained with nowhere to go. Most were then moved to the South County Civic Center down the road. Two residents remained in the hospital Wednesday afternoon and more than 30 spent the night in the neighborhood Clubhouse. Behind them, the tornado had twisted the red car she drove into a piece of scrap metal. “Hurricane yes, tornado, no,” Esturiljo said. Maria Esturiljo followed her son, Tony, down the road. Other residents carried suitcases as they left to stay with friends or relatives. Some homes no longer had doors or windows, and one was impaled by a tree. In the aftermath Wednesday afternoon, King’s Point residents covered shattered car windows with tarps and boarding over the holes in their homes.
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