A re-energized Hurricane Ian on Sept. 30 made landfall in South Carolina, according to U.S. weather officials.
The center of the hurricane made landfall at 2:05 p.m. near Georgetown, the National Hurricane Center said.
The storm had sustained winds of 85 miles per hour, much lower than the 150 mile per hour winds that struck Florida when the hurricane hit there on Wednesday. The difference means the storm is a category 1, versus a category 4 when it landed in Florida.
“This is not as bad as it could have been,” South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster told reporters in Columbia before the hurricane made landfall in his state. “A lot of prayers have been answered but I would ask people, don’t quit yet because it’s still coming. We are not out of the woods.”…