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Possible hurricane - 2022 (Ian)

Thanks for posting that video, Melinda. Absolutely unreal!

My brother just bought a house in Fort Myers, for retirement in a couple years. Fortunately, they hadn't moved anything in yet, and are up here in Michigan. I talked to him today. His mood hasn't improved much.
 
I was looking at reports earlier today stating that the bridge to Sanibel Island is now impassable. Washed the causeway out in several places, and actually part of the bridge ramp itself collapsed. So anyone who didn't evacuate Sanibel and Captiva before the storm are pretty much stuck there for a while.

Connie and I have been talking about going to Sanibel as soon as she gets through the chemo treatments and feels like traveling. Her favorite restaurant is Doc Ford's on Sanibel. Not sure how the place fared through the hurricane though, even if we could get there. But maybe by Spring the bridge will be repaired and Connie will be feeling better. And hopefully Doc Ford's didn't get demolished.
 
Insomniac101 said:
Thanks for posting that video, Melinda. Absolutely unreal!

My brother just bought a house in Fort Myers, for retirement in a couple years. Fortunately, they hadn't moved anything in yet, and are up here in Michigan. I talked to him today. His mood hasn't improved much.
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Well, that is the thing about Florida. "364 days of paradise. Maybe one day of Category 5 hurricane."
 
WebSlave said:
I was looking at reports earlier today stating that the bridge to Sanibel Island is now impassable. Washed the causeway out in several places, and actually part of the bridge ramp itself collapsed.
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Yeah it looks pretty bad, photo of the bridge and this video shows how the island faired, not too well
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-EKMtv7BjQ
 

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Yeah, I guess Connie and I won't be going there any time soon.

Seeing these images brings back recent memories of driving through Mexico Beach after hurricane Michael. Pretty damned heart breaking stuff. Knowing that some people lost everything in these storms.
 
I read a report from someone who owns property on Sanibel that anyone who didn't evac is being removed by boat. Most infrastructure is gone and until the causeway is rebuilt even getting basic services such as power and water back can't even start.
 
Heck, just not having mosquito control in operation along with no air conditioning would be a unbearable. Sanibel island used to be considered as uninhabitable because of the mosquito population there. The first people who tried really had a rough time of it.
 
A friend of mine told me that he took a drive locally up here in north Florida along the coast during Ian's landfall and nearly ALL of the water had been sucked out of every bay, river, coast line, etc. Wish I had seen that.
 
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