Fort Myers

Hurricane Ian's wind, rain and storm surge has caused at least a dozen deaths, flooded homes, left millions without power and flattened businesses.

The Lee County Sheriffs Office is mobile and will stop at nothing to help our residents. People who live in Fort Myers are now in search of food, basic necessities, gas, and other things they lost in the storm. Now, people who live there are assessing the damage, and preparing to rebuild what Ian destroyed.

Doug Listin told CBS4 he stayed on his boat the entire time. At one point, he said the storm surge was so high it was over the roofs of buildings. Listin said, ...

I ended up on the restaurant next door with my boat." I don't know how to take it." Listin said, "I ended up myself and the guy in that sailboat..

Kinfay Moroti, a Fort Myers photographer, found power, hopelessness and hope in a variety of images taken following the deadly passage of Hurricane Ian in ...

Lonnie Garretson cries on Thursday (9/29/2022) upon seeing damage to mobile homes and flooding in Suncoast Estates in North Fort Myers. 13 of 13 — Hurricane Ian Fort Myers Trailer 5.jpg Hundreds of families in Suncoast have been displaced by the hurricane. "This gown is all I have," said Schuster, as she and Whitlock walked back to the mobile home they were rescued from during Hurricane Ian. "The dream is gone," Grey said of losing his house boat. James Grey looks for his house baot on Thursday (9/29/22) along the Caloosahatchee River in downtown Fort Myers, Flrodia.

A chunk of the causeway connecting Sanibel Island to Florida's mainland had fallen into the sea Wednesday, cutting off access to the barrier island.

Stan Pentz heard the boom of the stormwater rushing into his Iona Ranch mobile home in Fort Myers on Wednesday loud and clear. The cities and towns there were some of the first areas to receive a lashing from the storm. He said efforts were underway to bring those who remained on the island to safety. Mitch and Mike Stough sheltered on the third floor of the Estero Island Beach Club, where Mike worked. Residents, looking shell-shocked, began the monumental task of cleaning up, picking up pieces of debris from their lawns. Sheriff’s deputies blocked access to Estero Island, saying the bridge was unsafe to cross. Closer to the Matanzas Pass Bridge, entire marina buildings were shattered, wooden docks twisted and splintered. Waves poured over Estero Boulevard, demolishing the lower floors of buildings and carrying away vehicles, they said. From there, they had a front-row view of the chaos. The town has a population of nearly 6,000. Other areas of the state are still seeing heavy rains and haven't broken free of Ian's grip yet. She wondered how her home in the nearby Iona Ranch mobile home had fared after

This was a city Thursday where yachts were parked on the street and hundreds of cars were underwater, thanks to Hurricane Ian and its deadly and ...

Francisco said he was grateful that his family made it through the storm intact and still had running water, food and electricity. "I was in the police department for almost 25 years, saw a lot of storms here. This is by far the worst storm I have ever witnessed." "Our boat is done," said 23-year-old Addie Maynard, who until Ian intruded Wednesday had been living on a 34-foot yacht with her boyfriend at the Old Bridge Marina in North Fort Myers. "I'm just wondering how you clean up," Stough said. And at the few gas stations that reopened, there were long lines of motorists waiting to fill up.

Aerial photos from the Fort Myers area, a few miles west of where Ian struck land, showed homes ripped from their slabs and deposited in a jumble among shredded ...

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Fort Myers, Fla., resident Bobby Pratt about the damage Hurricane Ian had on his town.

Like I said, I went to the beach, and the beach is the place that me and my friends - we definitely spent a lot of our time there. As I went to the beach, as I drove over the bridge, I could see that our fishing pier that had stormed - that was completely gone. So, yeah, a lot of the places that me and my friends and family frequented are just gone. I could just see that it was going to be bad - worse than I could have ever thought it was. And we don't have shutters or anything up on our windows, so we were just praying that none of the debris was going to hit our house and break any of our windows or damage our house severely. As I was in the downtown area of Fort Myers, I saw boats in the streets. That's pretty much all the damage that is to our house. And as I said, our roof - the tiles are coming off the roof. We have a fence in our backyard that's pretty much completely - it was destroyed by the wind. I mean, it was just - it was destroying things around me. And as the storm grew closer, it changed and it made landfall here. We had - the wind was crazy.

A U.S. Coast Guard aircrew from Air Station Miami conducted overflights around the Fort Meyers, Fla., area on Sept. 29, the morning after Category 4 ...

If you need help, call 911 or use Ch. [#HurricaneIan], do not use social media to call for help! Some of the things crews look out for are people in distress, scope of damage, and potential pollution.

Images of the destruction wrought by the ferocious winds of Hurricane Ian are being revealed Thursday as residents who opted to stay venture outside.

- Image 5 of 5 "It was pretty amazing." That was when the destruction started. According to Benham, he noticed the winds switch directions about 3 p.m. [Category 4](https://www.foxweather.com/extreme-weather/hurricane-ian-ties-4th-strongest-storm-to-make-landfall-in-florida) storm with 150-mph winds when it came ashore on Cayo Costa about 3 p.m. [FOX Weather Wire](https://www.foxweather.com/live-news/ian-batters-florida-with-damaging-winds-life-threatening-storm-surge) for live updates on Ian as it moves out of Florida.

A woman was on her knees on the side of the road assembling a chainsaw, next to a blue pickup truck with large wheels, on Thursday in Fort Myers.

Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno and the Fort Myers Police Department asked anyone who is concerned about their family’s safety in the area to call 239-321-7700. – A woman was on her knees on the side of the road assembling a chainsaw, next to a blue pickup truck with large wheels, on Thursday in Fort Myers. FORT MYERS, Fla.

Hurricane Ian sent 150 mph winds and a towering storm surge tearing through the town of Fort Myers Beach in Florida.

Sheriff’s deputies blocked access to Estero Island, saying the bridge was unsafe to cross. From there, they had a front row view of the chaos. “Fort Myers Beach is gone.” Mitch and Mike sheltered on the third floor of the Estero Island Beach Club, where Mike worked. “The whole entire Times Square is gone. The Whale’s gone.