Posted on 09/28/22
| News Source: FOX News
Floridians are beginning to lose power, with outages topping 1 million as the Category 4 Hurricane Ian made landfall Wednesday afternoon.
In the morning — around 5 a.m. — reported outages totaled approximately 35,000, according to PowerOutage.us.
The majority of the outages so far are in Lee, Collier and Sarasota counties.
People look out as clouds from the approaching Hurricane Ian darken the sky on Tuesday in St Petersburg, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images / Getty Images)
Ian is just shy of a Category 5 storm — and Gov. Ron DeSantis told residents Wednesday that the time has passed to evacuate.
"If you are in any of those counties, it's no longer possible to safely evacuate. It's time to hunker down and prepare for this storm," he urged.