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Speaking in Lee County, DeSantis also announced more funds for hurricane recovery while citing red tape in the need to get more temporary shelters to residents in Southwest Florida.
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It aimed to come up with a consensus for developing a strategy to deal with warming temperatures and catastrophic weather events, like Hurricane Ian.
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Hurricane Ian trampled over 5 million acres of agricultural land in Florida. For small, family farmers, the recovery is a long season, a brutal winter, fruitless.
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FEMA, SBA and city officials met with Fort Myers Beach residents who are struggling to navigate the rebuilding process.
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Some shops and restaurants have cleaned up and reopened, but others along the beaches will take longer to rebuild and open again.
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Some charitable groups are getting donations for Thanksgiving meal giveaways in the middle of recovery from Hurricane Ian devastation.
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Florida is among 32 states that don’t treat 911 dispatchers as first responders. Recent efforts in the state Legislature to change that have not advanced.
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Hurricane Ian’s devastation on the Southwest Florida coast sent a chill up the spine of anyone in Miami worried about the next big one — and it sharpened the focus of federal planners working to design and build new barriers to avoid a similar outcome for Miami-Dade.
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Southwest Florida has already answered the immediate question after Hurricane Ian slammed into the coast, killing dozens of people and destroying thousands of homes with record-high storm surge: Will we rebuild?
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Contractors who clean up debris and perform other services already are fighting over local government contracts that could be worth tens of millions in tax dollars.
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Students returning to school have lost out on weeks of instruction, putting them behind on the year’s planned curriculum. But more serious, say some experts, are long-term effects on a student’s physical and emotional health.
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The Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund provides relatively inexpensive reinsurance to carriers as a way to help stabilize the property-insurance market.