My wife and I had built a house in Cape Coral that we sold 3 weeks before Charlie took the roof and ruined the house.
Took subsequent owners 2 foreclosures and 6 years to restore.
Our friends in Punta Gorda had winds drive posts through their storm shutters and through the house while they sheltered in one of their bathrooms.
Weather channel is saying Ian is the first bad hurricane in 100 years in the area.
I call b.s. and then they say that Charlie was only 7 miles wide and Ian is half the state.
I just can't imagine that, but the pictures from Punta Gorda and Ft. Myers are showing extensive flooding, power outages, and wind damage.
My thoughts go out to the folks that are still there, and hope they come out of this safely.