Hurricane Ian unleashed” major” desolation in Florida, submerging homes, washing out roads and islands and leaving millions without power, officers said Thursday, as President Joe Biden advised of a potentially” substantial” death risk. The storm,.

The storm, one of the most important ever to hit the United States, churned towards South Carolina as a order 1 hurricane after forging Florida, where at least eight people failed and numerous awaited deliverance in swamped homes.

This could be the deadliest hurricane in Florida history,” Biden said after a briefing at FEMA exigency operation headquarters in Washington.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis described the destruction in the southwest part of the southern littoral state as a” 500- time flood tide event.”

The damage that was done has been major and this is just off original assessments,” DeSantis said.” We have noway seen storm swell of this magnitude.”

The US Coast Guard said nine settlers have been saved from a boat that sank at ocean during the hurricane on Wednesday, leaving 18 missing. Among them were four Cubans who swam to reinforcement in the Florida Keys.