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The Relief Efforts. A Category 4 storm, Hurricane Ian made landfall on Wednesday afternoon at Cape Cayo, a small island north of Captiva, then again north of Punta Gorda on the mainland.
The hurricane damaged the Pine Island Causeway and washed out the approach to it which connected Pine Island to the mainland. [77] A temporary bridge was opened for public use on October 5. [78] Both the Sanibel Causeway and the Matlacha Bridge are eligible for federal bridge rehabilitation funds. [77] [70]
When Hurricane Ian struck Florida’s Gulf Coast, it washed out the bottom level of David Muench's home on the barrier island of Sanibel along with several cars, a Harley-Davidson and a boat.
Hurricane Ian was a devastating tropical cyclone which, at the time, was the third costliest weather disaster on record worldwide. It was also the deadliest hurricane to strike the state of Florida since the 1935 Labor Day hurricane, and the strongest hurricane to make landfall in Florida since Michael in 2018.
A damaged causeway to Sanibel Island is seen in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian , Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022, near Sanibel Island, Fla. (Wilfredo Lee/) Across the state, Ian has knocked out power to ...
Hurricane Irma was the costliest tropical cyclone in the history of the U.S. state of Florida, before being surpassed by Hurricane Ian in 2022. Irma also was the first major hurricane [nb 1] to strike the state since Wilma in 2005 and the first Category 4 hurricane to make landfall in Florida since Charley in 2004.
A day after Hurricane Ian made landfall in southwest Florida as a Category 4 storm, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Thursday that the storm surge that came with it was “basically a 500-year flood ...
Hurricane Irma was attributed to around $1 billion in damage, [85] and the NHC attributed three fatalities to Irma in Puerto Rico, though four deaths were related to the storm. [ 6 ] [ 133 ] Two people died due to rainstorms ahead of the hurricane: one man died in Orocovis after falling off his ladder while repairing his roof; another man on ...