“It’s kind of hard to talk about because we don’t have a place to go,” Michelle Reidy of Iona, Florida, told AccuWeather on Thursday – one day after Category 4 Hurricane Ian crashed into southwestern Florida with maximum sustained of 150 mph, causing utter devastation.
Reidy is one of the longtime residents of the Iona community, which is about 12 miles away from Fort Myers. Yet in 29 years, she said, she had never experienced or seen a hurricane like Ian.
“Our families have lost everything,” Reidy said, her voice almost breaking. “There is, I can tell you, like a boat sitting almost like in our apartment. It’s all underwater.”
