“The damage done is historic,” Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said of HurricaneIan. “We have never seen a flood like this. We have never seen storm surge of this magnitude.”
Emergency officials in Fort Myers Beach told the Tampa Bay Times that not everyone abided by evacuation orders and that they expected to find bodies as the searched through the rubble.causeway to Sanibel Island
Nearby, his father picked through the wreckage of the restaurant's first floor, standing in the doorway. There were no walls surrounding the door frame.Doc's Beach House also suffered a propane leak, and Lee County sheriff's deputies were turning residents back, urging them to stay away and stay safe. The smell of gas wafted through the air, and was noticeable blocks away.
“Unfortunately, we prepared for the winds but not for the floods,” said Heitman, who said flooding in the city’s downtown area was between seven and nine inches. Instead, they found Venice Little Theater devastated by Hurricane Ian. The near-Category 5 storm had ripped through the local landmark just over the north bridge to the island of Venice.
Doris Welch has owned a manufactured home in the park since 1997, but only owned the mobile home – where the aluminum roof was now peeled like an orange – since 2005.Justin Pachota, 42, owns several waterfront restaurants in Venice. He said he doesn’t know if there’s any damage to the buildings yet, but around his house there are trees down and debris in the street. “We’re just anxious for the winds to die down,” he said.
George and Sharon Fink weathered Hurricane Ian in their manufactured home in North Port, only to realize Thursday morning that their house was one of few spared by the Category 4 storm that tore through the community. “That aluminum sound is the biggest noise, because its light, it takes off like a plane, then when it hits, it hits,” George, 82, said. “I really think it was exciting, because I would look out the windows and see a part of a roof just blowing past.”
Dr. Birgit Bodine spent the night at HCA Florida Fawcett Hospital in Port Charlotte, anticipating the storm would make things busy, “but we didn’t anticipate that the roof would blow off on the fourth floor,” she said.
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