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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.
Ten days after Hurricane Ian crashed into Southwest Florida as a dangerous, high-end Category 4 storm on Sept. 28, the first group of residents returned to Fort Myers Beach — one of the areas ...
Although the storm was a considerable threat to the majority of the Tampa Bay area, Ian's core remained well to the south of Tampa and St. Petersburg. Ian's blowout tide pulled a large amount of water out of Tampa Bay, [81] with tides reaching 5 to 7 ft (1.5 to 2.1 m) below normal at the Hillsborough County side of the bay. Parts of the county ...
Location of Boca Grande, Florida Public beach on Gulf Blvd, looking north. Boca Grande is a small residential community on Gasparilla Island in southwest Florida.Gasparilla Island is a part of both Charlotte and Lee counties, while the actual village of Boca Grande, which is home to many seasonal and some year-round residents, is entirely in the Lee County portion of the island.
Ian was the ninth named storm, fourth hurricane, and second major hurricane of the 2022 Atlantic hurricane season, and was the first Category 5 hurricane in the Atlantic since Lorenzo in 2019. [6] Ian originated from a tropical wave that moved off the coast of West Africa and across the central tropical Atlantic towards the Windward Islands.
The Mucky Duck in Captiva, a beloved waterside restaurant and bar, suffered extensive damage during Ian and dug itself out of mounds of wet sand to recover. Mucky Duck posted on its Facebook page ...
Cayo Costa State Park is a state park in the U.S. state of Florida, on Cayo Costa (formerly known as La Costa Island or Padilla Rancho), an island directly south of Boca Grande (Gasparilla Island) and just north of North Captiva Island, approximately 12 miles (19 km) west of Cape Coral. The park is accessible only by charter boat (with or ...