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When flooding from Ian trapped one Florida town, an airboat navy came to the rescue

After Ian dumped record levels of rain across Florida, rivers flooded, leaving thousands stranded on newly created islands.
DeSoto County Commissioner J.C. Deriso turns his airboat around before heading out to help hurricane survivors stranded on newly-created islands brought on by the flooding Peace River.

Arcadia, Fla. — The devastation from the storm surge was 50 miles away on the coast, so Ana Aguilar thought she was fine. Still, she and her family passed the night a few miles away from home in the town of Arcadia, and then went back to look at their house on the other side of the Peace River the

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