To the Editor:

As a New Jersey native who lives part time in Florida, I am not sure how to write the most important letter to the editor, for me, since I got out of college in 1978. The devastation here in Fort Myers, Fla., makes Superstorm Sandy look like an afternoon thunderstorm, and we are 15 miles from the Gulf Coast.

Ian might have been a 500-year storm, but more importantly it may be a decade-long downpour to the economy here.

October 12, 2022