Pages on social media circulated a video that they claimed depicts the size of Hurricane Ian on a beach in Florida, USA.
The circulation of the clip came in conjunction with the arrival of Hurricane Ian to Florida and caused several losses, and were documented by photos and videos of American and international media.
However, the circulating clip, which shows a beach with a cloudy sky, is not recent, but was filmed last year, according to a person who posted it on Facebook in 2021 and republished it these days, in response to its circulation again as documenting the effects of Hurricane Ian.
The video was published last year on the account of a user named Andrew Varnam, who said in the accompanying comment – after noticing the spread of the video – that it was filmed in Fort Walton Beach.
“I never thought this would reach so many people! This was in Fort Walton Beach, Florida,” he wrote.
And after killing at least ten people in Florida, Hurricane Ian on Friday threatens other states in the southeastern United States, including North and South Carolina.
And Ian, which was accompanied by strong winds and heavy rain, followed by floods, and was a Category 4 hurricane on a scale of five categories, killed at least 12 people in Florida, according to the authorities, who confirmed that the toll could rise in the coming days.
After falling back to the first category, Ian became carrying winds of 140 km per hour and threatening “fatal sea floods” on the coasts of South Carolina and North Carolina, as stated in the latest bulletin issued by the National Hurricane Center, which put the entire coastal region from Georgia to North Carolina on alert. for the hurricane.
The hurricane, which was at eight o’clock (12:00 GMT), 175 kilometers southeast of Charleston, South Carolina, is expected to make landfall on Friday afternoon and then “weaken rapidly” as it advances between Friday and Saturday, according to the same agency.