Hurricane Ian left a path of destruction in south-west Florida, trapping people in flooded homes, damaging the roof of a hospital intensive care unit and knocking out power to two million people before aiming for the Atlantic Coast.
Hurricane Ian turned streets into rivers and blew down trees as it slammed into south-west Florida on Wednesday with 150mph winds, pushing a wall of storm surge.
Still, storm surges as high as six feet were expected on the opposite side of the state, in north-east Florida, on Thursday.
No deaths were reported in the United States from Ian by late Wednesday.
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Four other Cubans swam to Stock Island, just east of Key West, the US Border Patrol said.
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The storm previously tore into Cuba, killing two people and bringing down the country’s electrical grid.