FORT MEYERS BEACH DEVASTATED BEYOND REPAIR – DEMOCRATS BLAME CLIMATE CHANGE

A Category 5 tornado demolished Fort Meyers Beach on Thursday. Total destruction rained down from the heavens. “It’s a war zone,” Darrell Hanson, who runs several businesses, said of San Carlos Island. “It couldn’t really be any worse.”

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“It’s a war zone,” Darrell Hanson, who runs several businesses, said of San Carlos Island. “It couldn’t really be any worse.”

 

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In Fort Myers Beach, beach bars and restaurants that had survived Hurricanes Irma and Charley lay in ruins.

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On Friday, some residents of Fort Myers Beach trickled back on foot, pulling wagons and carts over the Matanzas Pass Bridge in the hopes of salvaging what they could from what was once their homes. Some had no clue yet whether anything was left to salvage.

After surveying the damage from the air, Jared Moskowitz, a former state emergency management director, estimated that 80 percent of Fort Myers Beach and Sanibel Island might need to be rebuilt. A causeway that had been Sanibel’s only road to the mainland was shorn apart by the storm, further isolating anyone who remained.

 

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Democrats blaming climate change for Hurricane Ian at odds with science, experts say

Democrats blaming Hurricane Ian on climate change trying to ‘politicize the pain and suffering’ of Floridians, expert says

Multiple experts contacted by Fox News Digital argued that there isn’t sufficient evidence to suggest climate change caused Hurricane Ian or any individual natural disaster.

The experts’ comments come as a series of media outlets, Democrats and progressive commentators continue to blame the hurricane on human-caused global warming. Hurricane Ian slammed into southwest Florida as a Category 4 storm on Wednesday, causing more than a million residents to lose power and prompting stark safety warnings from Florida officials.

“What they’re trying to do is politicize the pain and suffering of these people to promote their green agenda,” Gregory Wrightstone, the executive director of the climate policy think tank CO2 Coalition, told Fox News Digital in an interview. “Well, their policies and their agenda to promote renewables will do far greater economic destruction to the country and Florida.”

Destroyed homes in Florida

Destroyed homes and businesses on Pine Island, Florida are seen from a U.S. Army National Guard Blackhawk helicopter as U.S. National Guard Bureau Chief General Daniel Hokanson tours the area by air after Hurricane Ian caused widespread destruction in Pine Island, Florida, U.S., Oct. 1, 2022. (REUTERS/Kevin Fogarty)

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