'We heard from him back and forth saying it's brutal. I've never seen anything like this,' said Margie DiGiovanni of Drexel Hill whose son lives in Ft. Myers, Florida.
He's locked himself in a bedroom because, in the midst of the hurricane around him, he also has COVID-19.He sent a video to his mother on Wednesday, showing intense winds making waves in a typically serene lake just outside his condo building.Jereme LePere of Point Breeze couldn't reach his mom and sister in Port Charlotte, north of Fort Myers, until Thursday morning when he got a text from a neighbor.
"I got a text this morning from a 561 area code and it was my mom just saying they're fine," said LePere."There's a big pine tree in front of their house that collapsed onto their garage," said LePere. "Fortunately I think they had their roof literally replaced within the last year."
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