Vol. 38, No. 21
11/14/2022
Hurricane Ian Survival Stories
The tragedy that struck Florida in late September has shown once again how the indomitable, God-given human spirit can and does overcome horrific disasters. ...
FORT MYERS, Fla. — It wasn’t her first hurricane. But it was the most devastating. For Kynse Leigh Agles, a resident of Fort Myers, Florida, Hurricane Ian was the one that “wasn’t supposed to come.” Yet the single mom and local real-estate broker expressed only gratitude for all that has been done to help the beautiful island communities of Florida’s southwest region.
“It’s terrifying,” said Agles, sitting at her kitchen table in her home on E. Riverside Drive, the afternoon sunlight pouring in through the window as an offering of hope. Outside was a war zone. Ian had stripped entire homes off their foundations, tossed yachts from water to land, and uprooted telephone poles and palm trees, leaving parts of Agles’ neighborhood completely destroyed.
Agles and her best friend, Brianne “Bri” Casey, a local ER nurse with a home on E. Riverside Drive decimated by the Category 4 storm, told The New American they had survived Hurricanes Charley (Category 4; 2004), Wilma (Category 3; 2005), Irma (Category 4; 2017), and now Ian (Category 4), which made landfall in Fort Myers on the afternoon of September 29.
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