Hurricane Ian pounds Florida as monster Category 4 storm

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PUNTA GORDA, Sept 29 — Hurricane Ian slammed into the coast of southwest Florida as a monster Category 4 storm on Wednesday with powerful winds and torrential rains threatening “catastrophic” damage and flooding.The National Hurricane Center (NHC) said the eye of the “extremely dangerous” hurricane made landfall just after 3:00pm (1900 GMT) on the barrier island of Cayo Costa, west of the city of Fort Myers.Dramatic television footage from the coastal city of Naples showed floodwaters surging into beachfront homes, submerging roads and sweeping away vehicles.Some neighbourhoods in Fort Myers, which has a population of more than 80,000, resembled lakes.The NHC said Ian was packing maximum sustained winds of 150 miles (240 kilometers) per hour when it made landfall and forecast “catastrophic storm surge, winds and flooding in the Florida peninsula.”Florida’s Governor Ron DeSanti…