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Hurricane Ian barreled toward South Carolina after making landfall in Florida


Homes damaged by Hurricane Ian are seen in Fort Myers Beach on September 29.
Homes damaged by Hurricane Ian are seen in Fort Myers Beach on September 29. (Greg Lovett / USA Today Network)

The city of Fort Myers Beach on Florida’s southwest coast was flattened by Hurricane Ian, a local politician said late Thursday.

“I’m about two-thirds down the island and I’d say 90% of the island is pretty much gone,” Fort Myers Beach Councilman Dan Allers told CNN’s Don Lemon. “Unless you have a high-rise apartment or a newer concrete house built to the same standards today, your house is pretty much gone.”

City, with population about 5,600 people, located on Estero Island in the Gulf of Mexico.

Many people struggle to get to higher ground amid high tides, Allers said.

Allers said: “I’ve heard stories of people getting into freezers and dropping freezers into another house… and being rescued by taller houses.

Council members said that, instead of standing houses, there were only rubble.

“Every house on the beach is gone,” Allers said. “Some of the houses on the streets have completely disappeared, and there is nothing but a watering hole,” he said.

Allers, who had evacuated to higher ground during the storm, later discovered that his own home had been lost.

“Everything clearly inside is gone,” he said, though the structure still exists. “We can rebuild,” he added.



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