In the wake of Hurricane Ian, at least 21 are dead and as many as 10,000 in southwest Florida are unaccounted for.
Local muralist Candy Miller, left, embraces Ana Kapel, the manager of the Pier Peddler, a gift shop that sold women’s fashions, as she becomes emotional at the site of what used to be the store on the island of Fort Myers Beach on Friday, Sept. 30. Hurricane Ian made landfall Wednesday as a Category 4 hurricane on the Southwest coast of Florida.
“The water up over the rooftop, and we had a Coast Guard rescue swimmer swim down into it, and he could identify what appeared to be human remains,” he said. “We want to be transparent, but we just don’t know that number.”Rescue crews piloted boats and waded through streets that became rivers to save thousands of people trapped amid flooded homes and shattered buildings.
In North Fort Myers, another man who relied on oxygen was narrowly saved when his neighbors used an extension cord to connect his oxygen machine to a neighbor’s generator, the New York Times reported. Ian has likely caused “well over $100 billion’' in damage, including $63 billion in privately insured losses, according to the disaster modeling firm Karen Clark & Company, which regularly issues flash catastrophe estimates. If those numbers are borne out, that would make Ian at least the fourth costliest hurricane in U.S. history.were completely razed, leaving twisted debris. Broken docks floated at odd angles beside damaged boats. Fires smoldered on lots where houses once stood.
Lee County is entirely without water due to a main break, DeSantis said Friday. The state is transporting 1.2 million gallons of water from Lakeland to Fort Myers to support hospitals there that have no potable water.to children’s hospitals in South Florida. The babies arrived by air ambulances and ground vehicles Friday, said Ronald Ford, chief medical officer of Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital in Hollywood.Ian had made landfall on the Florida mainland at 4:35 p.m.
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