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Ten days after Hurricane Ian tore through his small, tight-knit waterfront community of Fort Myers Beach with a storm surge estimated as high as 18 feet, Jerry Altrip boarded a bus and made his ...
The island saw roughly 6 feet of storm surge, which left behind tons of sand covering streets, and filling some homes and businesses as the water receded. While Fort Myers Beach will still need to ...
Streets in downtown Fort Myers saw storm surge spill into the city, a grim reminder of the ferocious impact of Hurricane Ian in 2022. Several feet of water rose as Milton washed ashore. Several ...
Fort Myers marked 5.25 feet of inundation on its tide gauge, under the 7-foot record set by Hurricane Ian. To the South, in Naples, the National Weather Service recorded water levels about 5 feet ...
Fort Myers (or Ft. Myers) is a city in and the county seat [7] of Lee County, Florida, United States. As of the 2020 census , the population was 86,395; it was estimated to have grown to 95,949 in 2022, making it the 25th-most populous city in Florida. [ 5 ]
The hardest-hit areas were in Lee County, where catastrophic damage occurred as Ian pushed a destructive 10–15 ft (3.0–4.6 m) storm surge into Fort Myers Beach, Sanibel Island, and Bonita Springs, just south of where its eye made landfall. [72]
Nearly every dock on the north and west shores of Lake Jackson were damaged or destroyed. Water from the lake also flooded the first floor of some homes along the north shore. [174] The city of Lake Placid was also hard hit by the storm. A majority of homes suffered some degree of roof damage, with many homes along Lake Placid being completely ...
In Fort Myers on the southwest coast, resident Connor Ferin surveyed the wreckage of his home, which had lost its roof and was full of debris and rainwater after a tornado suddenly hit.