FORT MYERS BEACH, Fla. — Around the corner from where President Joe Biden was about to speak Wednesday afternoon, Louis “Smoky” Casin sat in a lawn chair under the front of a fifth-wheel trailer.
He picked at a styrofoam container of rice and sipped a cold Busch one week after Hurricane Ian, savoring a sliver of shade amid the ruins of the Sunnyland Trailer Court.
Casin, 76, didn’t see the president, who stared into cameras and promised the people of Southwest Florida the country would stay with them, even if recovery takes a “hell of a long time.”
