The latest on Ian: Patients forced from hospitals; access to Sanibel island cut off; people trapped in flooded homes as storm eyes more coastal states.
People are also reading… ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Hurricane Ian destroyed a cross-section of Florida, trapping people in flooded homes, forcing patients from nursing homes and hospitals, cutting off a popular barrier island and obliterating a historic waterfront pier. Nearly 2.7 million people lost power as rain fell and waters rose.
"It crushed us," Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno told ABC's"Good Morning America." He said roads and bridges remained impassable, stranding thousands in the county where Ian made landfall just north of Fort Myers."We still cannot access many of the people that are in need." Marceno said that while he lacked any details, he believed the death toll would be"in the hundreds." Gov. Ron DeSantis later said that toll was not confirmed and was likely an estimate based on 911 calls.
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