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Continued from Front ing is still going to occur."
Jackson Boone left his Flash floods were possible
home near the coast and across all of Florida. Haz-
hunkered down at his law ards include the polluted
office in Venice with em- leftovers of Florida's phos-
ployees and their pets. phate fertilizer mining in-
Boone at one point opened dustry, more than 1 billion
a door to howling wind and tons of slightly radioactive
rain flying sideways. waste contained in enor-
"We're seeing tree dam- mous ponds that could
age, horizontal rain, very overflow in heavy rains.
high wind — I think it's a Isolated tornadoes spun
100-plus sustained outside off the storm well ahead of
right now," Boone said by landfall. One tornado dam-
telephone. "We have a aged small planes and a
50-plus-year-old oak tree hangar at the North Perry
that has toppled over." Airport, west of Hollywood
In Naples, the first floor of a along the Atlantic coast.
fire station was inundated More than 1 million homes
with about 3 feet of water and businesses were with-
and firefighters worked to out electricity, and Florida
salvage gear from a fire- Power and Light warned
truck stuck outside the ga- those in Ian's path to brace
rage in even deeper wa- Waves crash along the Ballast Point Pier ahead of Hurricane Ian, Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2022, in for days without power.
ter, a video posted by the Tampa, Fla. The federal government
Naples Fire Department Associated Press sent 300 ambulances with
showed. Naples is in Collier medical teams and was
County, where the sheriff's age. search and rescue teams, not having any, now you ready to truck in 3.7 million
department reported on Ian had strengthened rap- and 7,000 National Guard go to a Category 4 or 5. meals and 3.5 million liters of
Facebook that it was get- idly overnight, prompting troops from Florida and We are more used to the 2s water once the storm pass-
ting "a significant number Fort Myers handyman Tom elsewhere ready to help and 3s." es. "We'll be there to help
of calls of people trapped Hawver to abandon his once the weather clears. Ian made landfall more you clean up and rebuild,
by water in their homes" plan to weather the hur- Florida residents rushed than 100 miles (160 kilome- to help Florida get moving
and that it would prioritize ricane at home and head ahead of the impact to ters) south of Tampa and again," President Joe Biden
reaching people "report- across the state to Fort Lau- board up heir homes, stash St. Petersburg, sparing the said Wednesday. "And we'll
ing life threatening medi- derdale. precious belongings on up- densely populated Tampa be there every step of the
cal emergencies in deep "We were going to stay and per floors and join long lines Bay area from its first direct way. That's my absolute
water." then just decided when we of cars leaving the shore. hit by a major hurricane commitment to the people
Ian's windspeed at landfall got up, and they said 155 Some decided to try and since 1921. Officials warned of the state of Florida."
tied it for the fifth-strongest mph winds," Hawver said. ride out the storm. Jared residents that Tampa could Parts of Georgia and South
hurricane to strike the U.S., "We don't have a genera- Lewis, a Tampa delivery still experience powerful Carolina also could see
along with several other tor. I just don't see the ad- driver, said his home has winds and up to 20 inches flooding rains and some
storms. Among them was vantage of sitting there in withstood hurricanes in the (50 centimeters) of rain. coastal surge into Saturday.
Hurricane Charley, which the dark, in a hot house, past, though not as power- "Please, please, please Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp
hit almost the same spot watching water come in ful as Ian. be aware that we are not preemptively declared an
on Florida's coast in August your house." "It is kind of scary, makes out of danger yet," Tampa emergency, ordering 500
2004, killing 10 people and The governor said the state you a bit anxious," Lewis Mayor Jane Castor said in National Guard troops onto
inflicting $14 billion in dam- has 30,000 linemen, urban said. "After the last year of a video on Twitter. "Flood- standby.q

Biden to oil industry: Don't raise prices due to hurricane

against increasing prices thing," Biden added. caused a spike in oil prices.
for consumers as Hurricane There are few signs that Gasoline prices mostly re-
Ian lashed Florida's south- average gas prices have flect trends in global oil
west coast. jumped significantly in Flor- prices, and crude — both
"Do not, let me repeat, do ida as the hurricane be- the U.S. benchmark and
not use this as an excuse gan to approach. AAA put the international Brent —
to raise gasoline prices the statewide average at has been slumping since
or gouge the American just under $3.40 a gallon, mid-June on growing fears
people," Biden said at the six-tenths of a cent higher of a global recession that
start of a conference on than a week ago. would reduce demand for
hunger in America and just A 99-day run of falling energy.
hours before the hurricane pump prices nationally Many energy analysts be-
made landfall as a mas- ended recently, and the lieve prices are more likely
sive Category 4 storm. 14-week decline was the to rise than fall in the next
Biden said that the hurri- longest streak since 2015. few months. But changes
President Joe Biden speaks during the White House Confer- cane "provides no excuse The nationwide average in sentiment about the
ence on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health, at the Ronald Reagan for price increases at the price had risen past $5 a economy, Russia's war
Building, Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2022, in Washington. pump" and if it happens, gallon — and $6 in Califor- against Ukraine, and even
Associated Press he will ask federal officials nia — in June as the eco- hurricane season — al-
to determine "whether nomic recovery and an ways a threat to disrupt
By AAMER MADHANI President Joe Biden on price gauging is going on." increase in travel boosted refineries along the Gulf
Associated Press Wednesday warned "America is watching. The demand for gasoline and Coast — make predictions
WASHINGTON (AP) — oil and gas companies industry should do the right Russia's war in Ukraine uncertain.q