Storm Nicole reaches Georgia and the Carolinas after leaving extensive damage in Florida

The nicole storm headed north on Friday, pummeling parts of Georgia and North and South Carolina with heavy rains and leaving in its wake four dead and a path of shattered, shaky beachside homes with damaged hotels and condos along the way. Atlantic coast of Florida.

In Volusia County, local authorities evacuated 24 beachside hotels and condominiums after the structures were deemed unsafe late Thursday, hours after the storm made landfall on Florida’s Atlantic coast as category 1 hurricane.

In Wilbur-by-the-Sea, an upscale beachfront community just south of Daytona Beach, about a half-dozen homes collapsed and fell into the sea, while another 25 single-family homes were declared structurally unsafe and evacuated. authorities said online.

“The structural damage along our coastline is unprecedented,” Volusia County Manager George Recktenwald said in a statement.

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We have never experienced anything like this before. … This is going to be a long road to recovery,” she said.

The beaches of this community of about 30,000 people were littered with piles of concrete, lumber and rebar, where grand homes with picturesque ocean views once stood. Residents looked at the ruins in disbelief.

In addition to two people electrocuted in the chaotic situation that left Orange County -where Orlando and Disney World– Two other people were killed in a car accident on the Florida Turnpike during the storm, the Orlando Sentinel reported, citing the state Highway Patrol.

The storm, packing sustained winds of 120 km per hour, downed power lines on Thursday, knocking out power to more than 300,000 homes and businesses. Some 44,500 homes and businesses were still without power as of Friday morning, Poweroutages.us reported.