Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis defended the timing of evacuation orders issued in Lee County, which bore the brunt of the state’s fatalities from Hurricane Ian.
At least 35 county residents were reported dead, making up more than half of the 66 deaths reported in Florida by Sunday morning,Several neighboring counties issued evacuation orders Monday evening or Tuesday morning, but DeSantis defended the timing of the alert by Lee County officials, which he said was based on the forecasts available at the time.
Some local officials said the county was lulled into a sense of false complacency in the lead-up to the cataclysmic event. The barrier islands first hit by Ian were in all of the projected models of the storm’s path 72 hours it slammed into the US, although Fort Myers was not, CNN reported. Boyle rode out of the storm on the island, where he lost his house and two cars but felt lucky to be alive, according to the report.
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