Fort Myers

2022 - 9 - 30

Post cover — Image courtesy of "The New York Times"

Fort Myers Mayor Finds a Long Line for Pizza Amid Ian Destruction (The New York Times)

Mayor Kevin B. Anderson of Fort Myers watched helplessly from his condo on Wednesday as Hurricane Ian pushed ashore and water from the Caloosahatchee River ...

Anderson, a resident since the mid-1970s, said he had never experienced such a strong storm. A hospital was without power and water and had to transfer some patients to another hospital in Naples, he said. One pizza place, he said, stayed up all night cleaning and, by lunchtime, had a line out the door of people willing to wait an hour for a hot pie.

Fort Myers photographer captures powerful images in Hurricane ... (WGCU News)

Kinfay Moroti, a Fort Myers photographer, found power, hopelessness and hope in a variety of images taken following the deadly passage of Hurricane Ian in ...

Lonnie Garretson cries on Thursday (9/29/2022) upon seeing damage to mobile homes and flooding in Suncoast Estates in North Fort Myers. 13 of 13 — Hurricane Ian Fort Myers Trailer 5.jpg Hundreds of families in Suncoast have been displaced by the hurricane. "This gown is all I have," said Schuster, as she and Whitlock walked back to the mobile home they were rescued from during Hurricane Ian. "The dream is gone," Grey said of losing his house boat. James Grey looks for his house baot on Thursday (9/29/22) along the Caloosahatchee River in downtown Fort Myers, Flrodia.

As Fort Myers takes stock of Ian's damage, residents look for ... (NBC News)

This was a city Thursday where yachts were parked on the street and hundreds of cars were underwater, thanks to Hurricane Ian and its deadly and ...

Francisco said he was grateful that his family made it through the storm intact and still had running water, food and electricity. "I was in the police department for almost 25 years, saw a lot of storms here. This is by far the worst storm I have ever witnessed." "Our boat is done," said 23-year-old Addie Maynard, who until Ian intruded Wednesday had been living on a 34-foot yacht with her boyfriend at the Old Bridge Marina in North Fort Myers. "I'm just wondering how you clean up," Stough said. And at the few gas stations that reopened, there were long lines of motorists waiting to fill up.

Aerial Images of Hurricane Ian's Devastation in the Fort Myers, Fla ... (HSToday)

A U.S. Coast Guard aircrew from Air Station Miami conducted overflights around the Fort Meyers, Fla., area on Sept. 29, the morning after Category 4 ...

If you need help, call 911 or use Ch. [#HurricaneIan], do not use social media to call for help! Some of the things crews look out for are people in distress, scope of damage, and potential pollution.

Boats washed ashore, gas station chaos in Fort Myers after hurricane (NEWS.com.au)

Drone footage shows the damage to Fort Myers, Florida from Hurricane Ian with boats washed ashore and cars crowded at a gas station.

Fort Myers resident documents the hurricane damage (West Virginia Public Broadcasting)

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Fort Myers, Fla., resident Bobby Pratt about the damage Hurricane Ian had on his town.

Like I said, I went to the beach, and the beach is the place that me and my friends - we definitely spent a lot of our time there. As I went to the beach, as I drove over the bridge, I could see that our fishing pier that had stormed - that was completely gone. So, yeah, a lot of the places that me and my friends and family frequented are just gone. I could just see that it was going to be bad - worse than I could have ever thought it was. And we don't have shutters or anything up on our windows, so we were just praying that none of the debris was going to hit our house and break any of our windows or damage our house severely. As I was in the downtown area of Fort Myers, I saw boats in the streets. That's pretty much all the damage that is to our house. And as I said, our roof - the tiles are coming off the roof. We have a fence in our backyard that's pretty much completely - it was destroyed by the wind. I mean, it was just - it was destroying things around me. And as the storm grew closer, it changed and it made landfall here. We had - the wind was crazy.

Good Samaritans help clear out Hurricane Ian debris in Fort Myers (WPLG Local 10)

A woman was on her knees on the side of the road assembling a chainsaw, next to a blue pickup truck with large wheels, on Thursday in Fort Myers.

Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno and the Fort Myers Police Department asked anyone who is concerned about their family’s safety in the area to call 239-321-7700. – A woman was on her knees on the side of the road assembling a chainsaw, next to a blue pickup truck with large wheels, on Thursday in Fort Myers. FORT MYERS, Fla.