For Connie Irvin, 82, and her partner, Cheryl Lange, the cost of Hurricane Ian’s devastating tear across Florida was clear. “Our entire community is wiped out,” said Irvin.
The pair lost their mobile home on Sanibel Island off the state’s west coast and are now homeless, staying in a motel inland about 50km away near Naples, Florida, that last weekend had no electricity.
“It’s been very difficult. I now know what it’s like to be homeless and not have simple things like bathroom availability,”
