Many people along the southwest Florida coast spent Sunday growing weary, frustrated, and angry.' Something needs to be done today or more people will die. It is a complete war zone down here,' a woman posted on Facebook.
Some took to social media to vent and plead for help.
Miami native Tony Jankowski, who moved to Port Charlotte in 2015, works at the Gasparilla Marina in the town of Placida, where they lost 60 of 800 boats in the hurricane and suffered considerable damage. He said the mobile home park next to the marina was completely leveled, some of the trailers landed in the marina, and most of the residents there were retirees on fixed incomes.
Jankowski, whose house is still without electricity, said he had just returned from Publix, where he got a quarter pound of four different deli meats. The man in front of him ordered three pounds of each meat. He said cars lined up for more than two miles along Veterans Way to get into a Home Depot. ▪ Power restoration continues across Florida. Nearly 70 percent of peak power outages have been restored and fewer than 800,000 power outages remain.
“We saw well over 2 million customers without power immediately following the storm and the power companies have done an amazing job of getting things restored as quickly as possible,” she said. “But those hardest hit areas, they’re going to take some more time and we know that there’s a water issue right now in Lee County.
“The Biden administration has responded, as they said, no complaints there. I think in times like this it’s not about politics,” Rubio said. “There will be a lot of people who have no homes to return to…We’re still in the search and rescue process, although now I think it becomes more about search and recovery. Then begins the process of rebuilding, to the extent possible, which will take years.”
Timbers Resorts CEO Gregory Spencer told the Miami Herald Saturday afternoon his top concern was the well-being of his 400-member staff of the South Seas Island Resort. Spencer weathered the storm at his home in Winter Park, while everyone else dispersed to Orlando, Cape Coral, Jupiter and Fort Myers. It took three days, but by Saturday night, everyone was accounted for.
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