With more than 100 fatalities, Ian was the third-deadliest storm to hit the U.S. Michael was blamed for more than 30 deaths. “When we had our afternoon meetings at the food truck, all we talked about is, ‘What are we going to do tomorrow?’ - not what didn’t get done four days ago,” Cathey said. With little left in town after Michael, Cathey said, residents gathered daily at a portable kitchen to map out the way forward after the hurricane, and there was an unwritten rule. The town’s mayor, Al Cathey, said one of the biggest challenges recovering from a natural disaster is fundamental: looking ahead, not back.
Tiny Mexico Beach, which was nearly leveled by Michael in 2018, still has fewer structures and people than it did before the storm. “You can’t fix anything until you get it cleaned up,” Brudnicki said. 1 because all other progress hinges on that, Brudnicki said, and that can mean obtaining loans as a bridge until federal reimbursement money shows up.
Keeping crews and trucks in the area to remove mountains of debris is job No. Ron DeSantis to help officials plan a way forward. Mayor Greg Brudnicki and other leaders from a rebuilt Panama City traveled to the southwestern coast this week at the request of Gov. With damage from Ian estimated at several times that and the Fort Myers area beginning a cleanup that will be even larger than after Michael, the two areas are collaborating on a way forward as south Florida residents wonder what their area will look like in a few years. The Category 5 storm all but destroyed one town, fractured thousands of homes and businesses and did some $25 billion in damage. (AP) - Four years before Category 4 Ian wiped out parts of southwest Florida, the state’s Panhandle had its own encounter with an even stronger hurricane, Michael.
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