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PHOTO: A day after Hurricane Ian hit Florida's west coast as a Category 4 storm, wrecked ships (mostly shrimpers) can be seen at San Carlos Island in Fort Myers Beach on Sept. 29, 2022.
Ian rapidly intensified to a Category 5 storm before making landfall at Cayo Costa, Fort Myers Beach, Fort Myers and Punta Gorda as a high-end Category 4 storm, respectively. Ian killed 72 people in Lee County (the Fort Myers area) and nine in Charlotte County (the Punta Gorda area), and brought massive storm surge to Southwestern Florida ...
Holly Harmon places a rose into a memorial for victims of Hurricane Ian in Fort Myers, Florida, on Monday, Oct. 10, 2022. More than 100 died during the hurricane, with the greatest number in Lee ...
Wreckage in Fort Myers pictured in late April 2023, about seven months after the hurricane In 2023, Florida senator Rick Scott introduced the Hurricane Tax Relief Act into the 118th Congress , which would enable Ian's victims, as well as victims of Hurricanes Nicole and Fiona in the US and Puerto Rico to more easily claim damage relief on their ...
On Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022, a biker rides by boats that were run aground in the Legacy Harbour Marina in Fort Myers. Hurricane Ian hit the west coast of Florida as a Category 4 storm a day earlier.
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]
Chad Gillis, Fort Myers News-Press October 1, 2022 at 1:11 PM Hurricane Ian plowed into Southwest Florida Wednesday afternoon as a devastating and deadly Category 4 storm.
The 2022 Atlantic hurricane season was a destructive and deadly ... 4 intensity and produced a storm surge which peaked at 7.25 ft (2.21 m) in Fort Myers, ...