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Fort Myers Beach residents and business owners fear rebuilding after Ian
Fort Myers Beach residents Chase Hussey and Erica Racz are worried their town will never be the same following the destruction brought by Hurricane Ian. Before rebuilding their home and businesses, they said the community needs to be restored. Hussey and Racz’s single-story home in the Palm Isles neighborhood — two miles from the beach — was almost 8 feet underwater after Ian’s storm surge pounded Southwest Florida a month ago. Their three businesses — West Coast Pressure Cleaning, Paradise Sailing and Ranalli Parasailare — remain closed until further notice. “As much as we’d love to go out there and fly parasails around in the sky, there’s things to do,…