Millions are under evacuation orders as Hurricane Ian barrels towards Florida.
“Ian is expected to make landfall in southwestern Florida in the next few hours as a catastrophic hurricane,” the National Hurricane Center says, repeating its warnings of a storm surge up to 18ft, and winds of 155mph at landfall.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis issued this statement:
Pray for people. This is a major, major storm.
“There’s some storms that really leave an indelible impact… this is going to be one of those historic storms and it’s going to shape the communities in south west Florida and have a profound impact on our state.
So we just ask people for their thoughts and their prayers.”