Cars are left abandoned where they stalled on the road into Fort Myers Beach when the Hurricane Ian's storm surge flooded their engines and their drivers couldn’t continue
Robert Leisure surveys the wreckage of his business, Getaway Marina, which was destroyed during the passage of Hurricane Ian, in Fort Myers Beach, Fla., Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022. FORT MYERS BEACH, Fla. — — On the road into Fort Myers Beach, cars are left abandoned in the roadway, where they stalled whenstorm surge flooded their engines and their drivers couldn't continue. Broken trees, boat trailers and other debris litter the road.
At the Cottage Point mobile home park in Fort Myers Beach, William Goodison and his son, Kurtis, wheeled two garbage cans filled with what was left of his belongings through knee-high water Thursday. A portable air conditioner. Some tools. And a baseball bat. Goodison said he lost numerous family photos and mementoes. “We’ll have to start building new ones,” he said.
“I was like, ‘Where’s my store?’” she said. The other six stores in the strip mall also appeared to suffer extensive roof damage, and a motor home in the parking lot had been flipped on its side. “We had a Tiki hut over there,” he said, pointing to an empty spot. “It was really cute,” he said about his business, “but no more.” He thought for a moment as he considered the rebuilding job ahead, “But where do you start?”
“I thought that given that I have a concrete home with hurricane shutters and storm-grade windows, everything would hold,” Siefert said. “And for the most part it did. We just didn’t think we’d get an 18-foot storm surge.”
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