Rescue groups have been out on boats checking on the roughly 200 households that did not evacuate from the Florida barrier island.
An older couple who rode out Hurricane Ian in their home on Sanibel Island in Florida could not agree on evacuating after parts of the causeway to the mainland were destroyed. “We’re going. We’re going,” the unidentified man told his partner as she looked down from the home’s upper porch. “But where?” she asked. Fort Myers, she was told by the man and members of a rescue mission who arrived by boat. “The bridge is down.” “I’m not ready to go,” she said Thursday, staying behind.
“I heard they weren’t going to do anything after the bridge closed down but my granddaughters are in Ohio and she was crying hysterical when I talked to her,” Nancy Sharon said. Her grandchildren contacted the Cajun Navy and Project Dynamo and begged them to check for proof of life. Some rescue teams were transported by helicopter to the islands, where they went door-to-door checking on residents, according to Florida State Fire Marshal Jimmy Patronis.
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