As Hurricane Ian death toll rises, officials in Lee County, home to 45 deaths, are put on the defensive
Brad Lambert, who spent a harrowing day trying to escape Ian’s fury while floodwaters rose in his mobile home near the Caloosahatchee River and the Sanibel Causeway, readily admitted he and his wife made the wrong call.
“Lots of us locals who have been here for years and years and years, we know when it’s time to go," Murphy said.Andrea Melendez, Fort Myers News-Press Regardless of when an evacuation order is issued, many chose to stay, experts said. Some do so because while they trust the forecasts, they somehow believe they will be spared.
In Florida, he said, people’s obsession with wind is rooted in Hurricane Andrew. The 1992 storm that packed winds of 174 mph turned neighborhoods in Miami-Dade County into rubble and killed 65 people.While a 2014 study by the National Hurricane Center debunked that widely-held fear, few paid attention.
“There were a lot of drownings,” said Mark Glass, who as commissioner of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement oversees the board that determines causes of death.
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