Fort Myers
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| ZIP code(s) | 33900-33999 |
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| Weather | 30°C, Wind S at 8 km/h, 67% Humidity |
| Colleges and universities | Florida Gulf Coast University |
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| ID | 911273 |
About Fort Myers
Fort Myers or Ft. Myers, is the county seat and commercial center of Lee County, Florida, United States. It has grown rapidly in recent years. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 62,298 and in 2018 was estimated at 82,254.
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...By Bernd Debusmann JrBBC News, WashingtonWhen Florida Governor Ron DeSantis strolled up to the podium on a sunny day in early October, he didn t look the part of a man standing just feet from the shattered remnants of boats and properties left ruined by Hurricane Ian in Fort Myers Beach...
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... The bulk of the deaths - 42 - have been reported in Lee County, which includes the hard-hit areas Fort Myers, Sanibel and Pine Island...
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... Suzie Mack, a Fort Myers resident, told the BBC that her brother s mobile home park saw water as high as 8ft during the storm...
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... Ahead of the hurricane, Oscar and Myra Jean Gavin, both in their 70s, packed up as many belongings as they could fit in their car and crossed the thin causeway that connects Sanibel to the mainland to ride out the storm in a friend s Fort Myers condominium...
Cyclone Ian batters South Carolina in second US landfall
... Fort Myers beach was one of the first places to encounter the power of Hurricane Ian when it struck the Florida peninsula this week...
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... The state s Governor Ron DeSantis told a news conference on Thursday evening that the damage in Fort Myers, a harbourside city there, was " almost indescribable"...
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... In Fort Myers, near where the storm made landfall, streets have been flooded by a surge of sea water driven by the storm...
Cyclone Ian batters South Carolina in second US landfall
Post-Tropical Cyclone Ian is lashing South Carolina in its second US landfall after carving a swathe of deadly destruction across Florida .
Ian returned as a category one hurricane near Georgetown at 14:05 local time (18:05 GMT) on Friday before losing some power as it marched inland.
But the danger is not over. Flooding is projected to continue throughout the region, including in Florida , for days.
Florida emergency officials announced 21 deaths as of Friday morning.
But a state Medical Examiner must determine if all the fatalities are directly related to The Storm .
Ian was one of The Strongest storms ever to hit the US when it struck Florida as a category four hurricane on Wednesday.
In coastal South Carolina , Ian has already ripped apart four piers and sent torrents of water flooding into neighbourhoods, including in the popular seaside city of Myrtle Beach .
Nearly 200,000 homes and businesses in South Carolina were without power by Friday Evening .
In The City of Charleston, around 80 miles (130km) south of where The Hurricane made landfall, cars have been seen driving through flooded roads.
The Storm is moving north with maximum sustained winds of around 70mph (110km/h), according to The National Hurricane Center (NHC).
Although Ian weakened on Friday, it is still dangerous, says the NHC.
The Agency warns that Central Florida could see record river flooding into next week.
Considerable flash and urban flooding was possible across coastal and north-east South Carolina , coastal North Carolina and south-east Virginia on Friday, the NHC said.
There was also a chance that Ian could spawn tornados in North Carolina and Virginia as it marched north, according to the NHC.
Ian is expected to dissipate over either North Carolina or Virginia by late on Saturday.
Meanwhile, the full scope of the disaster in Florida - where 1. 6 million People still have no Electricity - is coming to light.
" We're just beginning to see the scale of that destruction, " President Joe Biden said at the White House on Friday.
He Said Ian was likely to be among the worst Natural Disasters in US history. The Storm has caused $47bn in insured losses, according to research firm CoreLogic.
Hurricane Ian was much less damaging than category five Hurricane Katrina , which killed More Than 1,800 People and wreaked $125bn in damage when it slammed into Louisiana in August 2005.
Fort Myers beach was one of The First places to encounter The Power of Hurricane Ian when it struck the Florida peninsula This Week .
Two Days on, shell-shocked residents like Pat and Kathleen Unger - who have an apartment close to The Beach - are returning to their homes.
" Elevator's gone, pool sheds are gone, office is gone, The Library 's gone, " Mrs Unger says.
" Parking lot's gone, everything's gone except for The Buildings , " Mr Unger adds.
" It looks like three buildings standing in The Middle of the Sahara Desert . "
At what was once a small marina on the Caloosahatchee River in Fort Myers , about 30 boats have been destroyed.
" I'm in The Boat business, " a visibly upset man said. " Well, actually, I guess I was in The Boat business, Past Tense . "
Meanwhile, in Cuba - where Ian knocked out Electricity for the entire island of 11 million People - residents in several neighbourhoods of the capital Havana have taken to The Streets to bang pots in protest at a Third Day of Blackouts .
Source of news: bbc.com
