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Hurricane Ian: Damage will drive insurance rates even higher, cripple industry

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — With early predictions of $50 billion in damage from Hurricane Ian, experts worry whether the state’s struggling property insurance system will become another casualty of the storm and lead to even higher premiums.

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As Ian’s aftermath is felt across Florida, its destruction comes into view

TAMPA, Fla. — It wasn’t just the coastline, though it took most of the blow.

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Judge favors free speech arguments in prosecutor's case against Gov. Ron DeSantis

TAMPA, Fla. — The federal judge considering Andrew Warren’s challenge to his suspension by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis declined in a written order Thursday to immediately reinstate the ousted state attorney, but appeared to favor Warren’s arguments that his removal violated his free speech rights.

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Teddy Bridgewater to start while Tua Tagovailoa misses time with concussion

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — While starting quarterback Tua Tagovailoa is out indefinitely with a concussion, veteran Teddy Bridgewater will start for the Dolphins, coach Mike McDaniel said Friday.

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Ian leaves destruction, and death, in Matlacha. Colorful village flattened, isolated

MATLACHA, Fla. — Many of the colorful cottages, boutiques and restaurants that made this artsy little fishing village famous and fun are gone or battered now, swallowed by surge or broken by wind. Boats have been flung into yards, homes flung into water.

Miami Herald

Coast Guard sees human remains in flooded home as search and rescue continues

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida officials on Friday gave a glimpse into the death toll following Hurricane Ian: 20 unconfirmed deaths, 1 confirmed fatality and an unknown number of drownings in one house.

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After Ian slammed into Port Charlotte, Scooby’s food truck sprung to action

PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. — The line grew longer and longer in the empty lot off Tamiami Trail.

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Florida begins to assess devastation wrought by Hurricane Ian

FORT MYERS, Fla. — On the vacation island resorts of Sanibel and Captiva, rescuers flew in on helicopters because the roads from the mainland of Southwest Florida had collapsed into San Carlos Bay. To the south, Fort Myers Beach, once a lively town center of fish restaurants and bars, was…

Miami Herald

Key Largo is so flooded that crocs swim in streets — and you can’t even flush the toilet?

KEY LARGO, Fla. — For years, American crocodiles have be seen lounging, mouths agape, on boat ramps in the Key Largo neighborhood of Stillwright Point.

Miami Herald

Rays’ Port Charlotte complex damaged by Hurricane Ian

CLEVELAND — Rays officials are in the process of assessing the extent of the damage to their Port Charlotte training facility in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian.

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‘Absolute devastation’: Hurricane Ian decimates Fort Myers Beach

FORT MYERS BEACH, Fla. — They thought second floors would be safe.

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Ian’s path of ruin: Sanibel bridge severed, Gulf Coast cities flooded, at least 12 dead

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World Central Kitchen starts delivering meals to communities impacted by Hurricane Ian

TAMPA, Fla. — Early Thursday morning, just as first responders began to assess the catastrophic damage inflicted by Hurricane Ian, a team of chefs packed 5,000 meals to go and hit the road, driving south.

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‘Absolute devastation’: Hurricane Ian decimates Fort Myers Beach

FORT MYERS BEACH, Fla. — They thought second floors would be safe.

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Water returns to Tampa Bay after Ian-driven ‘reverse storm surge’

TAMPA, Fla. — It was an unusual scene, sure to enrage public safety officials who had warned people of the danger. But the Instagrammers just couldn’t resist.

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Photos: This is what Florida looks like after Hurricane Ian

Images of the aftermath show a glimpse of the destruction caused by the powerful Category 4 hurricane: homes washed out, boats yanked from their moorings, and decimated neighborhoods.

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Ian’s path of ruin: Sanibel bridge severed, Gulf Coast cities flooded. Rescues continue

FORT MYERS, Fla. — As Ian continued its destructive trek across Florida, roughly 2 million households across the state awoke on Thursday without electricity as the Gulf Coast began to assess leveled homes, flooded buildings and streets, and damaged or destroyed road and bridges.

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‘Help is on the way’: DeSantis says hundreds have called 911, rescue efforts underway

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday said hundreds of people in Southwest Florida have called authorities for help as Hurricane Ian wreaked havoc, and that the state is trying to confirm whether two people died in the storm.

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Clearwater CEO apologizes after asking staff to work through Hurricane Ian

TAMPA, Fla. — Days before a dangerous Category 4 storm barreled toward Florida’s Gulf Coast, the chief executive of a Clearwater, Florida-based marketing agency sent texts downplaying the storm’s impact and encouraging staff to bring their pets and kids in the office so they wouldn’t miss work.

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Causeway to Sanibel Island severed as Florida wakes up to Ian’s trail of destruction

FORT MYERS, Fla. — As Ian continued its destructive trek across Florida, over a million households across the state awoke on Thursday without electricity as residents and emergency crews along the Gulf Coast began to assess the toppled buildings, flooded streets and crippled infrastructure.

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Pets and potty breaks: If your dog won’t go out in the rain, here’s help

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Tensions are mounting in many South Florida households, and it’s all about the dog: She won’t go out to pee.

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‘It’s time to hunker down’: DeSantis urges safety as powerful Hurricane Ian arrives

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday morning said it was no longer safe for people to evacuate Floridians’ southwest coast and urged them to “hunker down” as Hurricane Ian prepared to make landfall in the afternoon.

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How it started, how it’s going for Tua Tagovailoa, Joe Burrow ahead of Dolphins-Bengals Thursday night game

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Two football games 43 days apart in 2019 led to Tua Tagovailoa becoming the quarterback for the Miami Dolphins and Joe Burrow ending up with the Cincinnati Bengals.

Orlando Sentinel

Mike Bianchi: Amid Hurricane Ian, let’s recall the wisdom and idiocy of two former ADs

ORLANDO, Fla. — As we all deal with the destructive impact of Hurricane Ian, let us hope those sports administrators in this state who have decided to reschedule, postpone or even cancel games have more compassion and common sense than former LSU athletics director Joe Alleva.

Miami Herald

Ian no big deal to some on Florida coast: ‘I walk in faith and not in fear. That’s how I roll’

VENICE, Fla. — The beachfront town of Venice was deserted Wednesday morning as Ian stalked the Gulf coast and 60 mph gusts blowing sheets of rain raked streets strewn with tree branches.

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