After Hurricane Ian dumped record levels of rain across Florida, rivers flooded, leaving thousands stranded on newly created islands. In one community a small navy of volunteers used their air boats to help their stranded neighbors.
DeSoto County Commissioner J.C. Deriso turns his airboat around before heading out to help hurricane survivors stranded on newly-created islands brought on by the flooding Peace River.
"We're fine compared to so many who lost everything," she said, three days later,"We just can't leave."About 2,000 homes were flooded by the river a full day after the storm had passed, according to Desoto County Commissioner J.C. Deriso, who spent several days helping rescue efforts. Deriso and a small navy of volunteers ferried food and water across the flooded highway in air-boats: shallow skiffs propelled by giant fans. They took sick and injured people back from the newly formed island, where National Guard soldiers set up food and water distribution sites on the last stretches of highway still above water.
"We just don't have anything right now," she said, standing outside a food tent set up by a local charity. She's been sleeping in her car, which is somehow still running, even though there's mud on the roof and the windshield from where the water washed over it.
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