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Hurricane Ian made landfall in Charlotte County last week, with powerful 150-mile-per-hour winds and a storm surge that caused damage to homes and left entire mobile home communities in pieces.
ABC57 News in South Bend, Ind. covers all of Michiana including St. Joseph, Elkhart, Kosciusko, LaPorte and Marshall counties in Indiana and Berrien, Cass, Van Buren and St. Joseph counties in Mich.
Almost 530,000 homes, businesses and other customers in Florida still did not have power as of Monday evening.
Some residents and businesses in storm-damaged counties may not be back on the grid for "weeks or months" because of the structural damage caused by the hurricane, said Eric Silagy, president and CEO of Florida Power & Light Company.
At least 54 people died in Lee County alone, Sheriff Carmine Marceno said Monday -- up from the county's previously announced death toll of 42