My son lives in Port Charlotte and was hit fairly hard with the Hurricane IAN.
They lost power early Wednesday morning due to local transformers exploding and are still without power 6 days later.
Prior to the storm reaching land; my son packed up, installed hurricane shutters and moved inland about 5 miles staying with the wife's family.
His wife's relatives have lived in the Port Charlotte area since the 70's and have been thru many hurricanes; so they were prepared.
There was a lot of damage and flooding in the surrounding areas; my sons house did receive some damage, but their house damage was minimal in comparison to the neighbors.
He and the family are doing; they are looking forward to getting on with repairs and returning to normal.
Many thanks go out to Gov. DeSantis, the Nat'l Guard, local police and FEMA for helping the survivors and keeping Florida residents safe.