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Carole McDanel, a 78-year-old retired person, had a supplied storage room, tropical storm shades and new effect windows.
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The most terrible of Typhoon Ian should tear north toward Tampa, she had told her little girl. Why not intense it out at her home of 24 years?
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Then, at that point, a tempest flood cleared the island local area, which endured an immediate shot Wednesday, and overwhelmed McDanel's ground floor.
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She messaged photographs to Booker, a 32-year-old marketing expert in Naples, Fla., of the earthy colored water crawling up her steps.
Booker was on the telephone with McDanel, encouraging her to find a whistle and move as high as possible, when the line went dead.
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"I haven't heard from her since," she told The Washington Post in a telephone interview Thursday morning. "It has been 22 hours."
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Salvage groups in boats and helicopters were brushing areas across southwest Florida after Storm Ian arrived with destroying force
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The quantity of dead, harmed or missing stayed indistinct. Broken streets and extensions deferred look. Specialists advised overreacted families to remain patient.
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