Fort Myers Beach slowly recovers six months after Hurricane Ian Nearly every building on the barrier island in Southwest Florida was damaged or destroyed by Hurricane Ian's 15-foot storm surge. It ...

The City of Fort Myers has soft launched a new emergency management app. It will provide evacuation zone details, provide ...

Destruction from Hurricane Ian is shown in Fort Myers Beach, Fla., on Sept. 29, 2022. Hilary Swift/The New York Times via Redux.

The remnants of Fort Myers Pier on Tuesday. It’s been a year since Hurricane Ian submerged the barrier island under nearly 14 feet of storm surge.

The same goes for Cereceda. After Ian hit the Beach on Sep. 28, 2022, she returned to find both her Times Square stores — Local Color and The Pier Peddler — had been completely destroyed. ...

FORT MYERS BEACH, Fla. — The Tampa Bay region narrowly avoided catastrophic damage when Hurricane Milton moved south of its projected landfall late on Oct. 9. The hurricane's transition 70 miles ...

Tom Houghton wastes no time. Three days before Hurricane Helene hit, the owner of La Ola Surfside was preparing for the worst, hoping for the best. “The crew was there today, moving some stuff ...

Fort Myers, Florida, which is about 80 miles south of where Hurricane Milton made landfall, suffered major flooding caused by Milton's powerful storm surge. CBS News' Nicole Valdes shows the ...

Fort Myers Beach. Two years after Hurricane Ian left almost every home and business in ruins and killed 14 people, this small barrier island dodged a bullet.

Two days after Milton makes landfall, those in Fort Myers Beach are still trying to move forward. On Friday, cars were able to pass through Fort Myers Beach, assessing the damage and destruction.

Island communities in Lee County, Fla., endured another bruising overnight — almost two years to the day after Hurricane Ian killed dozens of people in the county and devastated Fort Myers Beach.