Tag: Charlotte County (Fla)

Hurricane Ian Started a Clock Ticking for Dialysis Patients

With roads and bridges damaged and water and electricity out, people who rely on every-other-day dialysis treatments needed extraordinary efforts to survive the storm’s aftermath.

Many of Hurricane Ian’s Victims Were Older Adults Who Drowned

The storm, Florida’s deadliest since 1935, has been linked to the deaths of at least 119 people in the state, many of them older residents who lived near the coast.