The remnants of Hurricane Nicole brought heavy rain to the US states of Georgia and the Carolinas on Friday after it left its mark on homes on the beach and damaged hotels and apartments on the Florida coast, killing at least four people.
In Valusia County, local authorities evacuated 24 beachfront hotels and apartments late Thursday after structures were deemed dangerous, hours after the storm made landfall as a Category 1 hurricane.
About half a dozen homes collapsed into the sea in Wilbur-by-the-Sea, an upscale beachfront community south of Daytona Beach, with 25 more families declared structurally dangerous and evacuated, officials said.
“The structural damage to our coastline is unprecedented,” Volusia County Administrator George Recktenwald said in a statement. Said. “It will be a long recovery.”
Two people were electrocuted after the storm in Orange County, and two people were killed in a traffic accident during the storm on the Florida Turnpike, the Orlando Sentinel newspaper reported, citing the state Highway Patrol.
With the start of cleanup operations in Florida, Nicole moved from northern Georgia to western North Carolina and the Appalachians on Friday afternoon after being reduced to a post-tropical cycle. It was still producing heavy rain, but the winds had dropped to 32 km/h.
source: Noticias
