Postcards: No One's Coming to Save Us

Nearly a year after Hurricane Ian, Ft. Myers Beach still looks like a bomb hit it.

Dear Fellow Expat:

Fort Myers Beach sits five miles from my home.

Last year, the beach town suffered a direct hit from Hurricane Ian.

A nine-foot sea wall pushed through the entire area, wiping out buildings and taking innocent lives. And even now, it’s fueling a desperate sale of property on one of the most beautiful beaches in Florida.

Drive past it now - it still looks like a hurricane hit last week.

Piles of rubble are still scattered across the landscape.

“For Sale” signs stretch every 15 yards.

Then, go on YouTube or read partisan Tweets or Xes or whatever-they-are-now from people with political axes to grind. They’ll tell you we deserved it because of our governor, or the federal government left this entire area to the wolves. It’s become a free-for-all on a free-for-all in real estate.

The middle working class is gone… In come the billionaires.

Leaders and media elite in Washington don’t like our governor.

Fine, but they largely abandoned the people in Western Florida.

So, imagine my ho…