2022 Atlantic Hurricane Season

As public schools in Lee County begin reopening this week for the first time since Hurricane Ian, the district’s counseling and mental health services teams are working to help students and staff reintegrate.

The beacons run on solar power, meaning they will continuously receive power, even if the grid were out for a long period.

Widespread flooding still is receding more than two weeks after Hurricane Ian. In one Brevard County neighborhood, the only road in and out remains washed out, leaving many residents stranded.

FEMA has opened locations across the state, including six in the greater Tampa Bay region.

Mayor Greg Brudnicki and other leaders from a rebuilt Panama City traveled to the southwestern coast this week to help officials plan a way forward. Brudnicki says officials have to concentrate on removing debris because nothing else can happen until that's done.

Public lands managed by the South Florida Water Management District in Lee and Collier counties remain so dangerous more than two weeks after Hurricane Ian that, above or below water, the areas will be closed for the foreseeable future.

Well before Hurricane Ian made Florida landfall, the state's homeowners' insurance market was already in free fall. A spokesperson with the Insurance Information Institute warned that the volatility looks set to continue.

The projection has been scaled back because Citizens has not seen as many claims as initially expected in areas outside of hard-hit Lee, Charlotte and Sarasota counties.

From the air, the fingerprints of Hurricane Ian’s journey through the Everglades are easy to see: swaths of beach washed away on Cape Sable, a plume of coffee-colored water leaking into the teal of Florida Bay and a stray sailboat shoved violently ashore, taking down 10 feet of mangroves on the way.

Still without home internet access, Charlotte county residents are returning to their remote jobs by logging in at the Punta Gorda Charlotte library.

Anita Cereceda, a native of Florida and former mayor of Fort Myers Beach, spoke of what she found when she returned to her home Sunday. Cereceda also owned three businesses of the island, and hopes one can be rebuilt.

The campaign features locations across the state — including Tampa — that were not largely affected by Hurricane Ian.