“In the immediate aftermath, it is difficult to know how many have been affected and to what degree, but as ’Canes fueled by a mission of service, we are determined to provide hope and take action during this critical time,” President Julio Frenk said in a message to the University community. The University of Miami Miller School of Medicine’s Division of Emergency Management was among those contacted by West Coast medical facilities on the same day of the storm’s landfall.
Florida’s Lee County municipalities are the hardest hit, but all along the southwestern coast, cities and towns of every size are now reeling from the brunt of Hurricane Ian, which made landfall in the region on Wednesday as a powerful Category 4 storm, knocking out power to millions of people, tearing houses off foundations, destroying critical bridges, and turning streets into rivers.įrom health care and housing to food and clothing, relief efforts will be immense, with calls for aid being initiated even before Ian even slammed into the coast, emergency managers are reporting.
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