A British couple are sheltering in their hotel room as a ferocious hurricane rips through Florida claiming many lives.
Hurricane Ian made landfall on the western coast of the US earlier this week, hurling boats onto shore and completely destroying countless buildings.
Millions of people were evacuated from their homes in Sunshine state as the Category 1 storm gained more and more power.
As of the this morning the true death toll is unknown, with NBC News reporting at least 10 people had died, while CNN put the toll at 17.
Jade Doswell, a Labour councillor for Fallowfield in Manchester, headed to Orlando with her partner Liam for the two week trip, Manchester Evening News reported.
Their holiday soon took a scary turn when they ended up in lockdown in the hotel room for two days.
Sheltering amid all the chaos are the couple from Manchester who flew put to Florida on September 18 for a holiday.
Jade, 32, has spoken of the terrifying scenes she has witnessed on television news reports, seeing 'houses floating in the water' and 'mass devastation'.
As the storm passed over Orlando in the early hours of Thursday morning, Jade said that her hotel room windows on the second floor were 'rattling'.
Speaking from her hotel room Jade said: "We came out here almost two weeks ago, we knew it was hurricane season and expected storms, but nothing anywhere near this bad.
"Every time we turn on the TV it's all over the news. It has caused such awful devastation, especially at the coast.
"Houses are floating in water and bridges have been blown down. So many people have had to leave their homes, it is just awful."
Jade said it would've been 'too dangerous' to go outside, but luckily they'd stocked up at a local supermarket before retreating to their room.
"We had trees crashing down and there was rubbish everywhere, but at least we are safe," she continued.
"We didn't even have a power cut, which we had expected.
"At around 2am on Thursday morning, I opened the hotel room door and it was like the rain was pelting down horizontally, it was bonkers.
"Everything around us has shut, you would be daft to go out in it, it just isn't safe.
"We had a warning flash up on our phones to tell us to stay indoors. There has been a general understanding that everyone should just stay in their rooms."
Some of the damage to coastal towns, including Fort Myers Beach, was "indescribable" Governor Ron DeSantis said after surveying the affected areas from the air on Thursday.
Earlier on Thursday, President Joe Biden warned Ian could prove to be the deadliest hurricane in Florida history, saying preliminary reports suggested a "substantial" loss of life.
More than 2.3 million homes and businesses remained without power on Thursday evening, according to the tracking website PowerOutage.us, while many more were affected by surging floods.
