North Fort Myers

Clean-up is beginning in earnest in downtown Fort Myers, flooded by Hurricane Ian. Another restaurant is open, and people are clearing water-logged items from buildings. At the same time a man in North Fort Myers is warning looters to stay away from vacant and damaged homes.

Thousands of Southwest Floridians are getting water, ice and food at distribution points and give-away locations across the region. The local government and some volunteer groups are operating the distributions of emergency supplies after Hurricane Ian.

Residents are looking at mobile home damage caused by Hurricane Ian. In North Fort Myers, site of a number of mobile home parks, the initial take is positive in some ways. However some manufactured homes did not survive the pounding wind of the storm.