I live in Ft Myers. Evacuated to Vero Beach). My area suffered significant damage and flooding. one pErson witnessed the wind pick up an entire house and slam it into our plaza building where we have art class and rosary prayers. The Sanibel causeway bridge is severely damaged and not useable. Boats now only way to island. How many joyous trips I’ve made there to shell....... Man oh man. Satan had a field day with us.
Glad to hear you/hub are back with us, in one piece, and hope ‘everything’ else survived too.
My heart breaks for Ft Myers after seeing the photo of the causeway. We are former residents of Ft Myers, and the only way my husband keeps me happy is to take me there for a few weeks each summer. We recently began to look at buying a vacation home. I can’t imagine the devastation people are waking up to this morning.
Hurricane Ian severs section of Sanibel Causeway
by: AP
Posted: Sep 29, 2022 / 09:17 AM EDT
Updated: Sep 29, 2022 / 10:01 AM EDT
Hurricane Ian left a path of destruction in southwest Florida, trapping people in flooded homes, destroying the only bridge to Sanibel Island, damaging the roof of a hospital intensive care unit and knocking out power to 2.5 million people as it dumped rain across the peninsula on Thursday.
One of the strongest hurricanes to ever hit the United States threatened catastrophic flooding around the state. Ian’s tropical-storm-force winds extended outward up to 415 miles (665 km), drenching much of Florida and the southeastern Atlantic coast.
With no electricity and patchy cellphone coverage, many calls for help weren’t getting through, even as emergency crews sawed through toppled trees to reach people in flooded homes. “If the line is busy, keep trying,” the Lee County Sheriff’s Office said in a Facebook post early Thursday.
The National Hurricane Center said Ian became a tropical storm over land early Thursday and was expected to regain near-hurricane strength after emerging over Atlantic waters near the Kennedy Space Center later in the day, with South Carolina in its sights for a second U.S. landfall.
https://www.wfla.com/news/florida/hurricane-ian-severs-section-of-sanibel-causeway/