Americans are emptying supermarket shelves, and Hurricane "Ayan" cuts electricity to a million homes

More than a million people were without power in Florida, the United States, on Wednesday, after Hurricane Ian made landfall.

In detail, outage tracking website PowerOutages reported that 1,040,000 of the state's 11 million customers suffer from power outages.

This came amid expectations of a rise in numbers in light of strong winds and heavy rain, according to "AFP".

Hurricane Ian intensified, becoming a Category 4 storm, as it was on its way to the US state of Florida.

The hurricane sparked panic among residents of the Florida coast on the Gulf of Mexico, who fled to shelters as it approached.

The southern fringes of the state saw strong winds hours before the hurricane was expected to make landfall.

The hurricane hit Cuba on Tuesday, leaving the island nation completely without power.

In a photo published by "Reuters", the shelves of a grocery store in Tampa, Florida, appear empty except for a few sandwiches, as the city prepares for the coming of the hurricane.

Residents of the city on the coast of Florida prepared for the hurricane early, emptying grocery store shelves, closing windows and fleeing to shelters before the powerful hurricane approached their city, at a time when authorities urged more than 2.5 million people to evacuate their homes, and go to higher places, after a warning From high waves and coastal floods.

Hurricane storms also landed at an airport in South Florida, causing a number of small planes to capsize, and a number of airport facilities and hangars were damaged.

The US National Hurricane Center put Ian under the classification of: "A very dangerous Category 4 hurricane", and the speed of storms in that classification ranges from 310 to 390 km per hour, as hurricanes of that category cause great destruction, such as: destroying concrete houses, flying Wooden houses in the air, cars, trees for great distances.

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