Hurricane Ian forced residents there to take storms seriously and showed them that water is their biggest threat. Longtime journalist and Fort Myers Beach resident Charlie Whitehead said there are ...

But officially, Hurricane Ian made landfall in Florida as a Category 4 storm. It was initially a Category 5 storm before weakening to a Category 4 just before landfall at Cayo Costa.

Day emphasized that no one had been on the roof from 2020 until Hurricane Ian struck in 2022. "So from 2020 until the hurricane hit in 2022, nobody had been up on that roof," said Day.