Barb Hansen stood at her sliding door, looking out to her backyard in Cape Coral and her 36-foot Grand Banks trawler tied up at the dock. It was about 4 p.m. on September 28, 2022. Hurricane Ian pounded harder and harder until her trawler was lunging up and down in 12-foot swings, with storm surge roiling the Gulf of Mexico and rivers heading inland to southwest Florida.
“Water started coming into our house so fast,” she recalls. “It was
