As officials officially confirmed the first death from Hurricane Ian in Florida, footage revealed the devastation caused by the storm in southwestern Florida.
It’s “like somebody took an atom bomb and dropped it,” Kevin Behen, 60, told the Tampa Bay Times about the devastation. “It sounded like there was a tornado coming every five minutes,” Behen said, adding that he hunkered down in a building in Fort Meyers—near where the Category 4 made landfall on Wednesday afternoon.
The first death in Florida due to Ian occurred on the other side of the state. A 72-year-old man in Volusia County died overnight Thursday when he went outside to drain his pool before he apparently slipped down a hill, officials confirmed….