By that point, more than 164,000 customers were without power in Manatee County and nearly 255,000 were in the dark in Sarasota County. In the interim, you shouldn’t be going anyplace that requires a shower anyway!”Īs of 8 p.m., the eye of the storm moves into the Port Charlotte area but continued on a north-northeast path toward Orlando and alongside Sarasota and Bradenton. We’ll get them up and running as soon as it’s save. As power goes out, so do the lift station,” said Manatee County Commissioner George Kruse in a tweet. “Our lift stations work off the same power grid as everyone else. Meanwhile, Manatee County officials immediately ran into power issues as 15% of lift stations lost power, leading the county to discourage people from excessive flushing of toilets. Residents were ordered off the roads, and shelters early in the day were locked down in Manatee at capacity as individuals still in the region were to shelter in place in their own homes. While the Sarasota-Manatee area avoided a direct hit from the storm, severe winds forced law enforcement and first responders to suspend service for several hours on Wednesday. Sarasota County also evacuated residents from flood zones A and B as the storm track forecasts showed the storm system impacting the region.

County commissioners there declared a state of emergency this weekend. Manatee County saw more than 100,000 residents evacuated from flood zones into shelters or out of the state. Sarasota, Manatee Look Toward Hurricane Ian Recovery Jacob Hurricane Ian made landfall in Lee County, Sarasota and Manatee counties dealt with the rain and wind of the Category 4 storm as it moved through the region.

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