Rescuers continue to search for survivors in flooded homes in Florida after Hurricane Ian's passage earlier this week
Jose Cruz, 13, carries an empty Jerrycan through receding flood waters outside his house as his family heads out to look for supplies, three days after the passage of Hurricane Ian, in Fort Myers, Fla., Saturday, Oct. 1, 2022.
“She stayed on the island. My brother-in-law and sister-in-law own two businesses over there. They evacuated. She did not want to go, thinking it wasn’t going to be bad," Schnapp said. Now, she said, she wasn't sure if her mother-in-law was still on the island or had been taken to a shelter somewhere.
“We watched it hit the pier and saw the pier disappear,” said Wilder, whose house sits about 30 feet above the ocean and stayed dry inside. “We watched it crumble and and watched it float by with an American flag still floating." John Joseph, whose father built the family’s beige beach house in 1962, said Saturday he was elated to return from Georgetown — which took a direct hit — to find his Pawleys Island home entirely intact.
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