Evacuation orders gave some residents only a day to prepare their homes and leave. Others couldn’t afford to evacuate, or felt they had no choice because their bosses told them they had to work.
Some didn’t expect the storm to be as bad as it was, or believed they were outside of its direct path, which shifted to the south as Ian neared landfall. At least another 11 people died directly from vehicle accidents, wind, and damage during the storm. Hurricane Ian’s storm surge and flooding resulted in at least 62 confirmed drownings in Florida, according to the Florida Medical Examiners Commission. “If you were in fragile health, it hastened moving on from this world.”ĭirect deaths a result of two main factors “It’s stress and the whole disruption and interruption and all the things that people hate about hurricanes,” said Willoughby, who teaches earth and environment at Florida International University and researches hurricane mortality. The building itself survived largely intact, he said, and yet there were several deaths among the clients. Professor Hugh Willoughby recalled a friend of his wife’s, who worked at an adult day care center during Hurricane Andrew.
Recent research on past hurricanes suggests that those deaths will keep climbing in the coming weeks and months, and ultimately could number in the thousands. While people tend to focus on the direct casualties after a major hurricane, it is the indirect deaths that often claim the most lives. But the deaths that keep inching the toll upward are now the indirect ones: the heart attacks and suicides, the infections and injuries, and the inability to receive vital medical services.
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