Good morning. Welcome, Naxios today. It's Thursday, September 29th. I'm Nyla Boudou.

Here's what you need to know today. Russia looks to ANX parts of Ukraine. Plus, low-income

Americans struggle to afford hurricane prep. But first, Ian confirms the new normal for

hurricanes. That's today's one big thing.

Hurricane Ian made landfall in Florida on Wednesday afternoon as a high-end category

for storm. Governor Rhonda Santas spoke yesterday afternoon from Tallahassee after more than

a million Floridians had already lost power.

You're going to see more power outages as this storm moves through the center part of

our state and before it exits into the Atlantic coast.

Other effects of the storm won't be clear for days, according to Kevin Grimsley, a

Tampa-based hydrologist for the US Geological Survey.

Some of the rivers do take a very long time to build up and they're very slow to then

come back down. As soon as the hurricane moves on here in the next day or two, hopefully

that flooding could continue for a week or more.

Axios' climate and energy reporter Andrew Friedman has been covering this storm. Andrew,

what stands out to you about Ian?

I think the thing that really made a lot of meteorologists and reporters sick to our

stomachs on Wednesday morning looking at this on satellite and on radar was just the

rate at which this thing intensified from a category of three to the borderline of

category five, putting on this display of 1,000 lightning strikes in one hour in the

circular ring of thunderstorms that surrounds the eye.

Lightning is pretty unusual, especially continuous lightning in that region. It's a sign of

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