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Florida’s island dwellers digging out from Ian’s destruction

President Joe Biden waves before boarding Air Force One for a trip to Florida to visit areas impacted by Hurricane Ian, Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2022, at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe) Air Force One with President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden onboard, prepares to take off for a trip to Florida to visit areas impacted by Hurricane Ian, Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2022, at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe) Contractors Miguel Ortiz, left, and Mitchell Brown, take down a waterlogged heavy bag used for boxing, so that apartment resident Janelle Thiel, right, can salvage the bracket used to hang it, after the apartment flooded to waist-height during the passage of Hurricane Ian, at the Riverwalk complex in Fort Myers, Fla., Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell) Paris Foye, right, and his fiancé Kelly Rice indicate how high flood waters rose during the passage of Hurricane Ian, as they work to sort through their waterlogged possessions to see what is salvageable, at the Riverwalk housing complex in Fort Myers, Fla., Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2022. Foye and Rice say the owners of the complex gave ground-floor residents less than 48 hours notice to sort through their damaged possessions and move out, with no guarantee that they will be allowed to return. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell) Damaged boats lie grounded between apartment buildings at the Riverwalk complex, one week after the passage of Hurricane Ian, in Fort Myers, Fla., Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell) Geneva, Fla., resident Joe Shaw, top, navigates his flooded street, Whitcomb Drive, Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2022, with his friends after Lake Harney in Seminole County crested 8 feet above sea level with historic flooding from Hurricane Ian. (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel via AP) Using a boat, Geneva, Fla., resident Joe Shaw delivers a TV to his brother on his flooded street, Whitcomb Drive, Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2022, after Lake Harney in Seminole County crested 8 feet above sea level with historic flooding from Hurricane Ian. (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel via AP) Crews work to remove sand that washed onto the pathway in front of 20th St in Virginia Beach, Va., on Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2022. Sand washed up as a result of the remnants of Hurricane Ian that hit Hampton Roads days before. (Billy Schuerman/The Virginian-Pilot via AP) Crews work to remove sand that washed onto the pathway in front of 20th St in Virginia Beach, Va., on Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2022. Sand washed up as a result of the remnants of Hurricane Ian that hit Hampton Roads days before. (Billy Schuerman/The Virginian-Pilot via AP)