“I lost everything from my kids, my grandkids. Everything I worked for for 27 years, gone in one blink,” she said.
COMING UP IN A FEW MINUTES, WE’LL TAKE A LOOK AT SOME OF THOSE TRAVEL TIMES AS ONE YEAR AGO TODAY, HURRICANE IAN MADE LANDFALL AS A CATEGORY FOUR STORM ON FLORIDA’S SOUTHWEST COAST. BUT RIGHT HERE IN CENTRAL FLORIDA, WE WERE NOT IMMUNE. IN FACT, THE IMPACTS WERE GREAT AND FLOODING WAS SEVERE IN SO MANY OF OUR LOCAL COMMUNITIES.
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