“We’re in Florida, we’re naturally not scared of hurricanes,” Fort Myers resident Gage Long said. ”But nobody expected this. Every time I came to check on the water, it just kept coming…'
, even as they reached 155 mph just miles from his apartment on the Fort Myers waterfront. His building was solid concrete and he felt safe, he told The Daily Beast Thursday, adding that many of his neighbors said the same.
Casualty estimates have varied drastically: Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno initially said he feared there would be “hundreds” dead among the “thousands of people that are waiting to be rescued.” But Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Thursday it was too early to say with certainty how many people died.
The surge washed away Wednesday evening, Long said, but the tide didn’t carry the boats back with it. Instead, the massive vessels were abandoned in the complex along with a wave of destruction around them. Long said one boat's owner came by Thursday morning and “was pissed,” but he said he understood.Long, a 29-year-old bartender, said he fared well in the storm, but that’s because he was on the second floor.
Heraldo Ramirez, 39, lived on the complex’s ground floor. He said in Spanish on Thursday that “everything was gone” and that he did not have time to speak more, as he hauled drenched furniture outside. At the few businesses open Thursday—like a Circle K and Waffle House just outside downtown Fort Myers—families filed in lines out the door for the opportunity to buy anything, while hundreds of other businesses sat in darkness.
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