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South Seas Island Resort is a 330-acre (1.3 km 2) resort located on the shores of the Gulf of Mexico in the community of Captiva in Lee County, Florida.The original resort, South Seas Plantation, was opened in 1946 as a fishing resort by Clarence Chadwick, following a dry hurricane (salt-water storm surge kills the plants) which ended commercial farming on the island.
South Seas Island Resort on 5400 Plantation Rd., was called “the belle of the island” by a Miami Herald columnist in 2006, 18 months after Hurricane Charley in 2004, “ravaged its luscious ...
These images of South Seas Island Resort in Captiva, Florida, were taken on Sept. 29, 2022, a day after Hurricane Ian made landfall, and are from NOAA’s Emergency Response Imagery website.
The hardest-hit areas were in Lee County, where catastrophic damage occurred as Ian pushed a destructive 10–15 ft (3.0–4.6 m) storm surge into Fort Myers Beach, Sanibel Island, and Bonita Springs, just south of where its eye made landfall. [72]
After Hurricane Charley ravaged Southwest Florida in August 2004, it took 18 months — and a multimillion-dollar renovation — for South Seas Island Resort to reopen after getting severely ...
Hurricane Andrew causes $25.5 billion in damage (1992 USD, $39.2 billion 2008 USD) in south Florida and 15 direct deaths. At the time, Andrew was the costliest North Atlantic hurricane in the history of the United States, though has since dropped to eighth after Hurricanes Katrina , Ike , Irma , Maria , Sandy , Ida and Harvey .
A U.S. Coast Guard aircrew hoists people from flooded areas near Sanibel, Florida, after Hurricane Ian, Sept. 29, 2022. Crews continue to conduct search and rescue operations in affected areas.
On Sept. 28, the monstrous Category 4 hurricane struck southwest Florida’s beloved barrier islands including Fort Myers Beach, Sanibel, Captiva and Pine Island, the largest island on Florida’s ...