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Fort Myers Beach was one of the places hit hardest by Hurricane Ian. Jim and Susan Helton are two of the many whose homes were destroyed. Now they don't know what's next.
Extended summary: As people return to Fort Myers to pick up the pieces after Hurricane Ian, some are finding that harder than others. Crystal Edge of Naples has spent days trying to pry the last vestige of her mother’s memory from the water. She left the 28-year-old sailboat that belonged to her mother tied up at a marina underneath the Fort Myers Beach bridge when Hurricane Ian made landfall. When Edge’s mother died last year, the boat became more important to her. When she checked on the family heirloom after the storm, she was distraught to see it sunken and piled underneath another boa...
Crystal Edge has been trying to recover the mast from her boat’s wreckage. She intends to repurpose it as a flagpole to honor her mother.
At a press conference Sunday afternoon Governor Ron DeSantis directed FDOT to assist Lee County to expedite emergency repairs to the road and bridges that provide motorists access to Pine Island.
Fort Myers Beach was one of the places hit hardest by Hurricane Ian. Jim and Susan Helton are two of the many whose homes were destroyed. Now they don't know what's next.