Housekeeping and other staffing were limited. No valet met her at the door when she arrived. That's how Jan Tuckwood, who has a home in Lake Worth but spends much of her time in Charlotte, North Carolina, described Tuesday and Wednesday at Disney's Swan Reserve. Disney was a 'Twilight Zone' during Ian's impactsĪ Disney resort during a hurricane is basically like the Twilight Zone. This content is not available due to your privacy preferences. Our biggest problem is we don’t have anywhere to go now," Bob said. Their boat has damage but was not destroyed. “I wasn’t leaving him behind, he’s been with us too many years,” Charlene said.īob wore flip-flops and a tank top that read: Old Salt, Fort Myers Beach. She cradled their 35-year-old ball python Tyge in a gray pillowcase. Charlene and Bob stood outside in the sunshine. The helicopter brought them to Hertz Arena in Estero on Thursday morning. At that point, Bob thought, this could end badly.Īround 10 a.m., they signaled a Coast Guard helicopter, which lowered a basket. The couple watched from the cabin as the storm surge pushed the water up over the concrete pilings, causing the floating dock to detach from the pilings and float into the bay. The ride from the marina to the mangroves was very unexpected.” “It was a lot windier and worse than we expected it to be. The couple has lived on the boat since 1998 and have survived multiple hurricanes. Stefania Lugli of Sarasota Herald-Tribune Coast Guard rescues Fort Myers Beach couple from boatīob and Charlene Johnson felt fairly confident facing Hurricane Ian on their 35-foot cabin cruiser in a bay on Fort Myers Beach. “It looks like what Homestead looked like after Hurricane Andrew.” “The text messages I’m getting are saying that it looks like total destruction,” she said. Task Force 1 team members told Buzzo that pictures of the damage “don’t do it justice.” “Usually the fatalities -it takes days to figure out,” she said. She did not immediately provide any more details about the two individuals.Ĭalculating the death toll may be a slow process, said Claudine Buzzo of Metro-Dade Firefighters Local 1403, because the search teams must go grid-by-grid, one house at a time. The Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office said it is investigating two deaths related to Hurricane Ian.Ĭounty spokeswoman Kaitlyn Perez said the information is preliminary. Two more deaths confirmed, why calculating a death toll will be a slow process The latest trek of Hurricane Ian, a tropical storm that was recategorized as a hurricane Thursday evening. It is expected to turn out over the Atlantic Ocean, avoiding Jacksonville and coastal Georgia, before reappearing along the South Carolina coast near Charleston around 2 p.m. The storm is hovering off the east coast of Florida around 240 miles south of Charleston, South Carolina. In its latest update, the National Hurricane Center has categorized Ian as a hurricane again. Hurricane Ian pummels southwest Florida: Terrorizes Palm Beach County with at least one tornado 5 p.m. Hurricane Ian updates from Wednesday: Read how the state steadied itself, bracing for the storm's landfall Two minutes of terror at Kings Point: Tornado leaves many in 55+ community west of Delray homeless
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What's open and closed Friday? Tropical Storm Ian: Schools back open Friday, see full Palm Beach County open, close list As of Thursday morning, around 11,000 customers were without power throughout Palm Beach County.
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