In a hurricane, local emergency managers in Florida are the officials who order evacuations. But it's hard to assign where that failure is in the system." Brian Wolshon, a civil engineering professor at Louisiana State University who studies evacuations says, "Obviously, if there's a death, there's a failure someplace. But it's already clear Ian is the deadliest storm to hit Florida since the 1935 Labor Day hurricane. Medical examiners are still certifying storm-related deaths. But it was also a county that delayed ordering residents to evacuate for more than a day, despite warnings from meteorologists that it would see "life-threatening" flooding. The largest number of fatalities was in Lee County, home to three islands that saw the greatest impact from the storm. Most of those deaths came from drowning in a storm surge as high as 18 feet in some areas. In Florida, at least 119 people died in Hurricane Ian.
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