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The damage has stranded people who chose to ride out the storm on the 18-mile-long mangrove-wrapped island, washing out roads and drowning at least one person who has yet to be identified.
Donna LaMountain, 51, surveys damage on Pine Island Road on Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022, in Matlacha, Fla. Hurricane Ian made landfall on the coast of South West Florida as a category 4 storm Tuesday ...
Over the past few days days, Pine Island residents have taken to Twitter to share their accounts of facing Hurricane Ian and then being stuck on the island after the storm. Concerned loved ones ...
Pine Island Center is located at the intersection of Pine Island and Stringfellow Roads. Pine Island Road (County Road 78) is the only road that leads to the mainland. Pine Island Center is the location of the island's two large grocery stores, along with an elementary school, library, museum, swimming pool, and a large park.
The city reported just over $8.2 million in damage, with about $4.5 million in damage to the municipal marina. [200] About 250 homes in St. Johns County had some degree of damage. [201] Overall, the county suffered about $32.7 million in damage, [202] with over $1 million in damage to crops. [203] One indirect death occurred due to a heart attack.
As Hurricane Ian took aim on Pine Island, the largest barrier island off Florida’s Gulf Coast, Jackie Mononhan and her neighbor Bernee Brawn headed to the opposite side of the state and safety.
The history of Jensen Beach in the 19th century revolved around pineapple farming. John Laurence Jensen, an immigrant from Denmark, arrived in 1881, and set up his pineapple plantation, which became the town of Jensen. By 1894, the Florida East Coast Railway reached Jensen Beach, and freight shipments were loaded directly onto the freight cars.
Pine Island, top, can be accessed by a private, one-lane dirt road that winds through a heavily forested peninsula of St. Helena Island as seen in this drone photo taken on April 12, 2023.