One vet and her pets rode out Ian’s fierce eye in Fort Myers parking garage
“This is the most destructive and dangerous hurricane I’ve ever seen here,” she said, nimbly jumping over a shrub that skidded through the garage. “It’s worse than we expected.”
Late afternoon, in another parking garage south of downtown and across the river from Cape Coral, a Herald reporter and photographer hunkered down as the eye ground slowly past, listening to the wind’s shrieks and moans and flinching when electrical transformers blew and lit up the air with green flashes. A gas station sign was ripped to shreds, trees bowed and broke, roof tiles sailed, aluminum siding unraveled, a dumpster tumbled across Colonial Boulevard. A massive SUV shuddered in the gusts.
The city center was flooded with 4-5 feet of water. Boats from the river bumped against parking meters.
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