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Ian rapidly intensified to a Category 5 storm before making landfall at Cayo Costa, Fort Myers Beach, Fort Myers and Punta Gorda as a high-end Category 4 storm, respectively. Ian killed 72 people in Lee County (the Fort Myers area) and nine in Charlotte County (the Punta Gorda area), and brought massive storm surge to Southwestern Florida ...
Killed about 200 people [26] Unnamed: 1909 October 11: Florida Keys: No Yes No 3 110 mph (180 km/h) clocked before anemometer disabled [27] Unnamed: 1910: October 17–18: Key West Fort Myers: Yes Yes No 2 Caused much flooding [28] Unnamed: 1916 July 5: Pensacola* No Yes No † Gusted to 104 mph (167 km/h) [26] Unnamed: 1916 October 18 ...
The hurricane produces heavy rainfall, which causes damaging flooding along crop fields. Heavy damage is also reported from Fort Myers to Sarasota, and statewide damage from the hurricane totals about $31 million (1947 USD, $300 million 2008 USD). The hurricane causes 11 direct fatalities in the state, and is indirectly responsible for six more.
This storm killed 408 people in the Keys, “primarily among World War I veterans working in the area,” NOAA said. ... Betsy killed five in Florida. Hurricane Andrew. Andrew made landfall as a ...
Wreckage in Fort Myers pictured in late April 2023, about seven months after the hurricane In 2023, Florida senator Rick Scott introduced the Hurricane Tax Relief Act into the 118th Congress , which would enable Ian's victims, as well as victims of Hurricanes Nicole and Fiona in the US and Puerto Rico to more easily claim damage relief on their ...
Hurricane Ian’s storm surge in Southwest Florida in 2022 – estimated at a peak of 15 feet in Fort Myers Beach – prompted emergency water rescues as the sun set, but still claimed 41 lives.
Chad Gillis, Fort Myers News-Press October 1, 2022 at 1:11 PM Hurricane Ian plowed into Southwest Florida Wednesday afternoon as a devastating and deadly Category 4 storm.
August 13, 1971– A tropical depression strikes Fort Myers, turns to the northwest into the Gulf of Mexico, intensifies as it turned to the northeast, and moves ashore near Steinhatchee. The depression produces hurricane-force wind gusts at Cedar Key and drops rainfall of over 8 inches (203 mm), resulting in some coastal flooding. [45]