![]() The entrance to the Walt Disney theme park is seen closed in Lake Buena Vista, Florida as Hurricane Ian approached on Wednesday, Sept. “Everything obviously inside was gone,” he said, although the structure survived. “Some of the homes on the side streets are completely gone, and there’s nothing but a hole with water,” he said.Īllers, who evacuated to higher ground during the storm, later discovered that his own home was lost. “Every home pretty much on the beach is gone,” Allers said. Instead of where homes stood, there’s only rubble, the council member said. “I’ve heard stories of people getting in freezers and floating the freezers to another home … and being rescued by higher homes,” Allers said. Many people struggled to get to higher ground amid the storm surge, Allers said. ![]() The city, with a population of around 5,600 people, is on Estero Island in the Gulf of Mexico. “Unless you have a high-rise condo or a newer concrete home that is built to the same standards today, your house is pretty much gone.” ![]() “I made it about two-thirds down the island and I’d say 90% of the island is pretty much gone,” Fort Myers Beach Town Councilman Dan Allers tells CNN’s Don Lemon. ![]() The city of Fort Myers Beach on Florida’s southwest coast was leveled by Hurricane Ian, a local politician said late Thursday. ![]() Homes damaged by Hurricane Ian are seen in Fort Myers Beach on September 29. ![]()
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