Outside the window of Susan Flack's darkened condominium in Naples, Florida, on Wednesday, trees bent in the wind and a portable toilet floated by on rising floodwaters.
Flack, one of thousands who decided to flout official evacuation orders and ride out Hurricane Ian, was not worried about her safety. Hunkered down on the second floor of her building, where the power had been out all day and the lobby was filled with several feet of water, she took videos of the scene outside.Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.
In Sarasota County, officials warned that emergency vehicles would not respond to calls for help until it was safe to be on the road. Those who failed to get out by Wednesday afternoon, officials said, needed to shelter in place. Inside her St. Petersburg home on Wednesday, Vanessa Vazquez, 50, soothed the four cats she had stayed behind to care for. The power winked out as the storm roared overhead. But the software engineer didn't regret her decision.In Venice, Doug Coe walked through rainfall on Wednesday morning to see how a friend's home was weathering the storm. Coe admitted to never experiencing a storm of this magnitude, but he was unfazed by the prospects of it ravaging his neighborhood.
Flack said she had traveled to her Naples condo from her home in Washington, D.C. to watch her 16-year-old grandson compete in a baseball tournament.
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