{O/C} Days after Hurricane Ian scraped across Florida, residents there are still wrapping their heads around lingering power outages and massive damage.
While questions mount over whether evacuation orders came way too late, President Joe Biden paid a visit to storm-ravaged Puerto Rico.
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Hurricane Ian may have left Florida, but its detritus remains.
Power supply has been resumed for 95 percent of Floridians so far.
In Orlando, a woman was plucked to safety after menacing floodwaters dragged her car away.
The storm battered Florida with unprecedented levels of rainfall that besieged homes and marooned thousands.
Aerial footage showed the aftermath -- obliterated homes and heaps of mangled structures.
But despite the agonising setback, residents remain Florida-Strong.
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JANE COMPTON, Florida Resident Displaced by Hurricane Ian:
But we will get by. We will make it.
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Now, questions are piling up over whether evacuation orders came too late.
The National Hurricane Centre cited a "life-threatening storm surge" at 5 p.m. on September 26th, but only on the next day's morning were the first orders in place.
But with bridges all wiped out, those in the remote island of St. James have had their communications with the outside world cut off by the storm.
Residents are also shorn of potable water, generators and food.
The National Guard is now ferrying vehicles and bringing back cell phone service to the island.
Sanibel Island was also left bleeding. Aerial footage revealed its iconicbeach cottages mowed down.
And more than two weeks after Hurricane Fiona wrecked the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico President Biden pledged unfaltering commitment to the beleaguered residents.
This as the island recovers from damage wreaked by both Hurricane Maria five years ago and Hurricane Fiona.
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JOE BIDEN, U.S. President:
We came here in person to show that we're with you. All of America is with you as you receive and recover and rebuild.
I'm confident we're going to be able to do all you want, Governor, and I'm committed to his island.
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