About 200 households did not leave ahead of Hurricane Ian. Rescue teams are tracking down the stranded and evacuating them — if they are willing. A neighbor watched as the Stasi family evacuated ...

It’s a barrier island, which is to say that it sits entirely on shifting sands, three miles off the coast of southwest Florida ... d show me around. Nothing about the crossing to Sanibel ...

Residents of Florida’s Sanibel Island ... s totally heart-wrenching for me.” Steve and Lori Schulz rode out the storm at their friends’ house on the island. They were securing homes ...

Areas in blue show where estimated storm ... sections of at least two bridges in Florida’s southwest coast, the Sanibel Causeway and Pine Island Bridge, which connect the mainland to two barrier ...

Sanibel is home to over 250 shell species, many coating the perimeter of the island with different shapes and colors of shells. It’s one of the very few islands in Florida that run perpendicular ...