GALLERY: SWFL in the aftermath of Ian
GALLERY: SWFL in the aftermath of Ian
Damage on Broadway St. - Fort MyersPhoto by: WFTX
Damage on Broadway St. - Fort MyersPhoto by: WFTX
Damage on Broadway St. - Fort MyersPhoto by: WFTX
Apopka neighborhoodPhoto by: Agustin Quintana
Matlacha/Pine IslandPhoto by: Kevin Russell
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Photo by: WFTX
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Photo by: WFTX
Photo by: WFTX
Photo by: WFTX
Photo by: WFTX
Photo by: WFTX
McGregor Blvd. heavily damaged and the "Rachel at the Well" (Spirit of Fort Myers) statue destroyedPhoto by: Alexandra Rangel/WFTX
McGregor Blvd. heavily damaged and the "Rachel at the Well" (Spirit of Fort Myers) statue destroyedPhoto by: Alexandra Rangel/WFTX
McGregor Blvd. heavily damaged and the "Rachel at the Well" (Spirit of Fort Myers) statue destroyedPhoto by: Alexandra Rangel/WFTX
Photo by: WFTX
Photo by: WFTX
Bonita Springs damagePhoto by: City of Bonita Springs
Bonita Springs damagePhoto by: City of Bonita Springs
Bonita Springs damagePhoto by: City of Bonita Springs
Bonita Springs damagePhoto by: City of Bonita Springs
Bonita Springs damagePhoto by: City of Bonita Springs
Bonita Springs damagePhoto by: City of Bonita Springs
Bonita Springs damagePhoto by: City of Bonita Springs
Bonita Springs damagePhoto by: City of Bonita Springs
Bonita Springs damagePhoto by: City of Bonita Springs
Bonita Springs damagePhoto by: City of Bonita Springs
Old Bridge Village in North Fort MyersPhoto by: Ray Thurber
Old Bridge Village in North Fort MyersPhoto by: Ray Thurber
Old Bridge Village in North Fort MyersPhoto by: Ray Thurber
Old Bridge Village in North Fort MyersPhoto by: Ray Thurber
Old Bridge Village in North Fort MyersPhoto by: Ray Thurber
Old Bridge Village in North Fort MyersPhoto by: Ray Thurber
Downtown Fort Myers damagePhoto by: Bre Brownlee | WFTX
Downtown Fort Myers damagePhoto by: Bre Brownlee | WFTX
Downtown Fort Myers damagePhoto by: Bre Brownlee | WFTX
Downtown Fort Myers damagePhoto by: Bre Brownlee | WFTX
Downtown Fort Myers damagePhoto by: Bre Brownlee | WFTX
Downtown Fort Myers damagePhoto by: Bre Brownlee | WFTX
Naples Pier damagePhoto by: Jason Zullo
Naples PierPhoto by: Jason Zullo
Port Charlotte damagePhoto by: Scripps
Port Charlotte damagePhoto by: Scripps
Port Charlotte damagePhoto by: Scripps
Bermont Road/Neal Road, Punta gordaPhoto by: Cindy Justus
Bermont Road/Neal Road, Punta gordaPhoto by: Cindy Justus
Bermont Road/Neal Road, Punta gordaPhoto by: Cindy Justus
Bermont Road/Neal Road, Punta gordaPhoto by: Cindy Justus
Bermont Road/Neal Road, Punta gordaPhoto by: Cindy Justus
Bermont Road/Neal Road, Punta gordaPhoto by: Cindy Justus
Big Hickory Waterfront Grille, Bonita SpringsPhoto by: Big Hickory - Facebook
Big Hickory Waterfront Grille, Bonita SpringsPhoto by: Big Hickory - Facebook
Big Hickory Waterfront Grille, Bonita SpringsPhoto by: Big Hickory - Facebook
Big Hickory Waterfront Grille, Bonita SpringsPhoto by: Big Hickory - Facebook
Big Hickory Waterfront Grille, Bonita SpringsPhoto by: Big Hickory - Facebook
Big Hickory Waterfront Grille, Bonita SpringsPhoto by: Big Hickory - Facebook
Big Hickory Waterfront Grille, Bonita SpringsPhoto by: Big Hickory - Facebook
Big Hickory Waterfront Grille, Bonita SpringsPhoto by: Big Hickory - Facebook
Flooding in SE Cape CoralPhoto by: Alexandra Rangel | WFTX
Flooding in SE Cape CoralPhoto by: Alexandra Rangel | WFTX
Flooding in SE Cape CoralPhoto by: Alexandra Rangel | WFTX
Photo of a boat over a bridge ramp.Photo by: WFTX
In this aerial photo made in a flight provided by mediccorps.org, damage from Hurricane Ian is seen on the causeway leading to Sanibel Island, making it impassable, in St. James City, Fla., on Pine Island, Friday, Sept. 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)Photo by: AP
Water streams past buildings on the oceanfront after Hurricane Ian passed by the area, Friday, Sept. 30, 2022, in Sanibel Island, Fla. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)Photo by: AP
Damaged homes and debris is seen on Sanibel Island, in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian, Friday, Sept. 30, 2022, on Sanibel Island, Fla. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)Photo by: AP
A TV news crew works in debris on Sanibel Island, in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian, Friday, Sept. 30, 2022, on Sanibel Island, Fla. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)Photo by: AP
A U.S. Coast Guard helicopter takes off on Sanibel Island, Fla., with people affected by Hurricane Ian, as seen from inside a damaged home, Friday, Sept. 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)Photo by: AP
Destroyed homes are seen on Sanibel Island, in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian, Friday, Sept. 30, 2022, on Sanibel Island, Fla. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)Photo by: AP
Damaged condominiums along the beachfornt after Hurricane Ian passed by the area Friday, Sept. 30, 2022, in Sanibel Island, Fla. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)Photo by: AP
David Muench sits with his birds after being rescued from Sanibel Island in the wake of Hurricane Ian, Friday, Sept. 30, 2022, in Fort Myers, Fla. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)Photo by: AP
In this aerial photo made in a flight provided by mediccorps.org, damage from Hurricane Ian is seen on the causeway leading to Sanibel Island from Fort Myers, Fla., Friday, Sept. 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)Photo by: AP
CORRECTS LOCATION TO FORT MYERS, NOT ST. JAMES CITY - In this aerial photo made in a flight provided by mediccorps.org, damage from Hurricane Ian is seen on the causeway leading to Sanibel Island from Fort Myers, Fla., Friday, Sept. 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)Photo by: AP
Skyline Blvd., Cape CoralPhoto by: Karen Simms
Flooded campers are seen at the Peace River Campground in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian in Arcadia, Fla., Monday, Oct. 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)Photo by: AP
Chris Spiezo, 18, takes a break on the front lawn after removing water logged walls from his home Monday, Oct. 3, 2022, in Fort Myers, Fla. The canal behind his home crested at 12 feet on Wednesday as Hurricane Ian ravaged the area. Residents of Southwest Florida continue the arduous task of cleaning their flooded homes and salvaging whatever they could. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)Photo by: AP
Sivan Cohen looks our from her pool deck as she tries to dry water logged belongings, Monday, Oct. 3, 2022, in Fort Myers, Fla. The canal next to her home crested at 12 feet on Wednesday as Hurricane Ian ravaged the area. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)Photo by: AP
Residents are evacuated by airboat through floodwaters along the Peace River in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian in Arcadia, Fla., Monday, Oct. 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)Photo by: AP
Alice Pujols goes through someone else's discarded items for clothes and shoes for her family Monday, Oct. 3, 2022, in Fort Myers, Fla. Pujols's home was completely destroyed after her home flooded due to rising waters caused by Hurricane Ian. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)Photo by: AP
J.C. Derison, a DeSoto County commissioner, who is using his airboat along with other citizen volunteers, carries an oxygen tank as he evacuates residents during flooding along the Peace River in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian in Arcadia, Fla., Monday, Oct. 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)Photo by: AP
Coralwood mobile home park, Cape CoralPhoto by: Sucel Tamayo
Coralwood mobile home park, Cape CoralPhoto by: Sucel Tamayo
Coralwood mobile home park, Cape CoralPhoto by: Sucel Tamayo
Coralwood mobile home park, Cape CoralPhoto by: Sucel Tamayo
Coralwood mobile home park, Cape CoralPhoto by: Sucel Tamayo
Coralwood mobile home park, Cape CoralPhoto by: Sucel Tamayo
Coralwood mobile home park, Cape CoralPhoto by: Sucel Tamayo
Coralwood mobile home park, Cape CoralPhoto by: Sucel Tamayo
Coralwood mobile home park, Cape CoralPhoto by: Sucel Tamayo
FILE - Men walk past destroyed homes and debris as they survey damage to other properties, two days after the passage of Hurricane Ian, in Fort Myers Beach, Fla., on Sept. 30, 2022. Florida's home insurance market was already on shaky ground. It now faces an even mightier struggle after the damage caused by the hurricane. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)Photo by: AP
FILE - A road is completely filled with a tall pile of debris from destroyed beachfront homes and businesses, two days after the passage of Hurricane Ian, in Fort Myers Beach, Fla., Sept. 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)Photo by: AP
FILE - Household belongings and debris lie scattered in a trailer park, two days after the passage of Hurricane Ian, in Fort Myers Beach, Fla., Sept. 30, 2022. Florida's home insurance market was already on shaky ground. It now faces an even mightier struggle after the damage caused by the hurricane. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)Photo by: AP
Damaged boats lie grounded between apartment buildings at the Riverwalk complex, one week after the passage of Hurricane Ian, in Fort Myers, Fla., Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)Photo by: ap
A contractor cleans personal items from a ground-floor river-front apartment which was flooded during the passage of Hurricane Ian, at the Riverwalk housing complex in Fort Myers, Fla., Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2022. According to a neighbor who aided in their rescue and preferred not to be identified, the family with two young children who lived there was trapped inside after flooding from the river burst down their front door, tearing the jam from the wall, and flooded the apartment to waist-height. Neighbors helped them to safety in a nearby second-story unit.(AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)Photo by: ap
Paris Foye, right, and his fiancé Kelly Rice indicate how high flood waters rose during the passage of Hurricane Ian, as they work to sort through their waterlogged possessions to see what is salvageable, at the Riverwalk housing complex in Fort Myers, Fla., Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2022. Foye and Rice say the owners of the complex gave ground-floor residents less than 48 hours notice to sort through their damaged possessions and move out, with no guarantee that they will be allowed to return. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)Photo by: ap
Contractors Miguel Ortiz, left, and Mitchell Brown, take down a waterlogged heavy bag used for boxing, so that apartment resident Janelle Thiel, right, can salvage the bracket used to hang it, after the apartment flooded to waist-height during the passage of Hurricane Ian, at the Riverwalk complex in Fort Myers, Fla., Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)Photo by: ap
Jordan Cromer cleans water-logged items at his home, Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2022, in North Port, Fla. Residents along Florida's west coast are cleaning up damage after Hurricane Ian make landfall the week before. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)Photo by: ap
Toys and personal items lay scattered on the floor of a bedroom, in a ground-floor river-front apartment which was flooded during the passage of Hurricane Ian, at the Riverwalk housing complex in Fort Myers, Fla., Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2022. According to a neighbor who aided in the rescue and preferred not to be identified, the family with two young children who lived there was trapped inside after flooding from the river burst down their front door, tearing the jam from the wall, and flooded the apartment to waist-height. Neighbors helped them to safety in a nearby second-story unit.(AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)Photo by: ap
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A home collapsed into the inlet on Fort Myers BeachPhoto by: Fox 4
Photo by: WFTX
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Bobbie Jo Gordon and her son Lucas are pictured in front of their home.Photo by: Johnny Gonzalez
Sanibel School courtyardPhoto by: School District of Lee County | Facebook
Pine Island ElementaryPhoto by: School District of Lee County | Facebook
Pine Island ElementaryPhoto by: School District of Lee County | Facebook
Pine Island ElementaryPhoto by: School District of Lee County | Facebook
Pine Island ElementaryPhoto by: School District of Lee County | Facebook
Sanibel SchoolPhoto by: School District of Lee County | Facebook
Photo by: School District of Lee County | Facebook
Fort Myers Beach ElementaryPhoto by: School District of Lee County | Facebook
Sanibel School after Hurricane IanPhoto by: School District of Lee County | Facebook
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Pine Island ElementaryPhoto by: School District of Lee County | Facebook
Fort Myers Beach ElementaryPhoto by: School District of Lee County | Facebook
Fort Myers Beach ElementaryPhoto by: School District of Lee County | Facebook
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Volunteers help Pine Island residents evacuate to safety.Photo by: Johnny Gonzalez
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McGregor Blvd. heavily damaged and the "Rachel at the Well" (Spirit of Fort Myers) statue destroyedPhoto by: Alexandra Rangel/WFTX
Photo by: CNN Newswire.
Pictures in Charlotte CountyPhoto by: Citrus County Sheriff's Office
Pictures in Charlotte CountyPhoto by: Citrus County Sheriff's Office
Pictures in Charlotte CountyPhoto by: Citrus County Sheriff's Office
Tonight, 10,000 meals from Operation BBQ Relief were donated to our community by Lizbeth Benacquisto, Senator Ben Albritton, & County Commissioner Kevin Ruane. Deputies helped unload & prepare the meals for distribution throughout Lee County to impacted areas.Photo by: Lee County Sheriff's Office
Tonight, 10,000 meals from Operation BBQ Relief were donated to our community by Lizbeth Benacquisto, Senator Ben Albritton, & County Commissioner Kevin Ruane. Deputies helped unload & prepare the meals for distribution throughout Lee County to impacted areas.Photo by: Lee County Sheriff's Office
Tonight, 10,000 meals from Operation BBQ Relief were donated to our community by Lizbeth Benacquisto, Senator Ben Albritton, & County Commissioner Kevin Ruane. Deputies helped unload & prepare the meals for distribution throughout Lee County to impacted areas.Photo by: Lee County Sheriff's Office
Tonight, 10,000 meals from Operation BBQ Relief were donated to our community by Lizbeth Benacquisto, Senator Ben Albritton, & County Commissioner Kevin Ruane. Deputies helped unload & prepare the meals for distribution throughout Lee County to impacted areas.Photo by: Lee County Sheriff's Office
Cape Coral near Santa Barbara BlvdPhoto by: WFTX
Cape Coral near Santa Barbara BlvdPhoto by: WFTX
Charlotte County street sign repairs on Thursday, October 6, 2022.Photo by: Charlotte County Emergency Management
Charlotte County street sign repairs on Thursday, October 6, 2022.Photo by: Charlotte County Emergency Management
Charlotte County street sign repairs on Thursday, October 6, 2022.Photo by: Charlotte County Emergency Management
Charlotte County street sign repairs on Thursday, October 6, 2022.Photo by: Charlotte County Emergency Management
FILE - Cars and debris from washed away homes line a canal in Fort Myers Beach, Fla., Oct. 5, 2022, one week after the passage of Hurricane Ian. Hurricane Ian confounded one key computer forecast model, creating challenges for forecasters and Florida residents. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)Photo by: AP
FILE - Snowbirds Bruce and Kathy Hickey, both 70, are seen through the windows of a trailer that had been waterfront, as they look at the wreckage of the trailer park where they had a winter home, originally purchased by Kathy's mother in 1979, on San Carlos Island, Fort Myers Beach, Fla., Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2022, one week after the passage of Hurricane Ian. Hurricane Ian confounded one key computer forecast model, creating challenges for forecasters and Florida residents. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)Photo by: AP
FILE - In a flight provided by mediccorps.org, debris from Hurricane Ian covers Estero Island in Fort Myers Beach, Fla., Sept. 30, 2022. Hurricane Ian confounded one key computer forecast model, creating challenges for forecasters and Florida residents. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)Photo by: AP
FILE - A member of Florida Task Force 8 urban search and rescue tags a condominium building that has been checked and found clear of people, in Fort Myers Beach, Fla., Oct. 5, 2022, one week after the passage of Hurricane Ian. Hurricane Ian confounded one key computer forecast model, creating challenges for forecasters and Florida residents. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)Photo by: AP
FILE - Jose Cruz, 13, carries an empty jerrycan through receding flood waters outside his house as his family heads out to look for supplies, three days after the passage of Hurricane Ian, in Fort Myers, Fla., Oct. 1, 2022. Hurricane Ian confounded one key computer forecast model, creating challenges for forecasters and Florida residents. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)Photo by: AP
Mobile home wrapped around a phone pole by Lowes off 41 and GladiolusPhoto by: WFTX
Mobile home wrapped around a phone pole by Lowes off 41 and GladiolusPhoto by: WFTX
"Took a pit stop at Laishley Park on the way back from Englewood to see some of the damage from #HurricaneIan. The bent over palm is a monument to the city after #HurricaneCharley in ‘04. Uncanny knowing now the extent of #Ian."Photo by: @CalvinLewisTV | Twitter
"Took a pit stop at Laishley Park on the way back from Englewood to see some of the damage from #HurricaneIan. The bent over palm is a monument to the city after #HurricaneCharley in ‘04. Uncanny knowing now the extent of #Ian."Photo by: @CalvinLewisTV | Twitter
"Took a pit stop at Laishley Park on the way back from Englewood to see some of the damage from #HurricaneIan. The bent over palm is a monument to the city after #HurricaneCharley in ‘04. Uncanny knowing now the extent of #Ian."Photo by: @CalvinLewisTV | Twitter
"Took a pit stop at Laishley Park on the way back from Englewood to see some of the damage from #HurricaneIan. The bent over palm is a monument to the city after #HurricaneCharley in ‘04. Uncanny knowing now the extent of #Ian."Photo by: @CalvinLewisTV | Twitter