The winds were unrelenting, pounding into our Fort Myers–area home and slashing our roof and trees for hours upon hours Wednesday. My wife, our two sons, and I tried to distract ourselves with games, books, music — I tried to get most of a work day in — but I was fidgety. What Hurricane Ian was doing outside was simply impossible to ignore.
The sliding glass doors on the back of our house bowed under the pressure of winds that reached over 100 mph at times. We worried one of them might break, but they held. I stepped outside a few times when the wind gusts died down to survey the area. Two of my pine trees — including one supporting my kids’ treehouse — snapped in half. The winds shredded the branches of a ficus tree in my yard and a rubber tree behind a neighbor’s home.
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