'People are losing their homes and their businesses.'
October 8, 2022, 5:17 AMJohn Lynch points to his home which was damaged when Hurricane Ian struck the area, in Matlacha, Fla.Roughly three dozen pastel-colored cottages line the only road to Pine Island, the largest island along Florida's Gulf Coast where Hurricane Ian made landfall.
The sea wall, which used to keep the waters at bay, has now partially collapsed. If it's not repaired, he said, his cottage will wash away with the tide."They're focused on the roads and the bridge, rightfully so," Lynch, 59, said on Wednesday as he pointed to the tide that had breached the sea wall and enveloped his home on Pine Island Road.
John Lynch points to his home which was damaged when Hurricane Ian struck the area, in Matlacha, Fla.Ian battered the southwest coast of Florida at speeds just shy of a Category 5 hurricane. At least 117 have died, making it the deadliest storm there since 1935. "It's a drinking town with a fishing problem," joked John Hayes, who also lives in Matlacha and is known by locals as 'Fishcutter John.'Blue Dog Bar & Grill in Matlacha, Fla., was damaged during Hurricane Ian.Lynch described Matlacha as a blue-collar community without the high rises like those on the ravaged neighboring barrier islands of the popular vacation destinations Sanibel and Fort Meyers Beach.
It "was like a foreign landscape. I couldn't landmark things because the landmarks were gone," he said.
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