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Heavy rains and storm surge are the most likely impacts to the Lee County area as Hurricane Ian charges toward the open Gulf of Mexico.. Meteorologists say the storm could dump 4 to 7 inches in ...
South of Tampa along the coast, storm surge was flooding into communities, with increases in water levels exceeding 4-8 feet in some locations. ... including in Collier County and Lee County ...
That area of Southwest Florida, much more heavily populated, suffered billions in damage, much of it from storm surge, and dozens of deaths. Lee County, home to Fort Myers Beach, had a death toll ...
While escaping the storm surge that occurred further to the south, catastrophic wind damage occurred in Charlotte County. In all, more than 200 homes were destroyed in Charlotte County. Ian also dumped over 2 feet of rain in portions of the county, with the storm maximum rainfall total of 26 inches (660 mm) being recorded in Grove City. [1]
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, where over 1 million people lost electricity. Its outer bands caused damage near Miami, where tornadoes were reported.
The National Hurricane Center’s peak storm surge forecast map released on Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2024, ahead of Hurricane Milton’s landfall somewhere along the state’s west coast.
Hurricane Lee was a long-lived and intense tropical cyclone which impacted Bermuda, the Northeastern United States, and Eastern Canada in September 2023. The twelfth named storm, fourth hurricane, and third major hurricane of the 2023 Atlantic hurricane season, Lee formed on September 5 from a tropical wave that had moved offshore from West Africa into the tropical Atlantic a few days earlier.
The fence can hold back up to 15 feet of storm surge and takes a crew of 60 workers to install over three days, said Bevis. Crews reinforced the barrier with resin anchors and concrete in 2023.