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The Sanibel Grill had a soft opening on Sunday and began its regular opening schedule on Dec. 1. The Sanibel Grill will be open from noon to 6 p.m. Thursday through Sunday, general manager Julie ...
The hurricane made landfall as a Category 4 storm on September 28, destroying portions of the Sanibel Causeway, a three-mile bridge system connecting Sanibel Island to the mainland and cutting off ...
STILL STANDING: Here's a view of Sanibel Lighthouse from this morning. It's still unknown if there was any structural damage. Gov. DeSantis says the causeway that connects the island to the ...
Causeway to Sanibel Island severed as Florida wakes up to Ian’s trail of destruction Linda Robertson, Zachary T. Sampson, David Ovalle September 29, 2022 at 8:06 AM
Sanibel is only reachable now by air or boat. Hurricane Ian washed large portions of its causeway bridge away. "Our island is a jewel. People come from around the world to see our island," said Smith.
Sanibel is an island and city in Lee County, Florida, United States. The population was 6,382 at the 2020 census, [4] down from 6,469 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Cape Coral-Fort Myers, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area. The island, also known as Sanibel Island, constitutes the entire city.
Sanibel Island, Fort Myers Beach, and Pine Island bore the brunt of Ian's powerful winds and its accompanying storm surge at landfall, which leveled thousands of standing structures in the region and collapsed the Sanibel Causeway and the Pine Island Causeway to Pine Island, entrapping those left on the islands for several days.
On Fort Myers Beach, another vacation island community south of Sanibel, video and photos posted on social media emerged showing wrecked remains of the downtown “Times Square,” where tourists ...