![]() The public has been asked to avoid the affected areas. “Iona neighborhoods were tremendously affected, resulting in demolished homes and displaced families,” the Lee County Sheriff’s Office announced. More than 100 homes, in three communities, suffered damage. “I thought I was looking at the floor, I was looking at the sky.” “I ended up under a pile of rubble of about 1,000 pounds, trapped,” Murray said. “The wind picked me off my feet and blew me about 12 feet,” he said. before he went to Sunday Mass when he was startled by howling winds that swept quickly through the home. Murray had been doing some paperwork in his kitchen at about 7:40 a.m. Thirty were destroyed while 51 suffered major damage, according to the Iona McGregor Fire District, which was among the responding agencies that also included the Lee County Sheriff’s Office, Lee County Emergency Medical Services and the Fort Myers Beach Fire Department.Īt Cottage Point Trailer Park, halfway between Fort Myers Beach and Sanibel off McGregor Boulevard, numerous homes, including the Murray’s, incurred significant damage from a storm that seemed to roll in out of nowhere. Yesenia Murray (left) and Edward Murray with their dog Coco outside their overturned house at the Cottage Point Trailer Park, halfway between Fort Myers Beach and Sanibel off McGregor Boulevard. Property damage was extensive, with a total of 108 homes affected. “Thankfully, there were no significant injuries and a few people were treated by crews with minor injuries,” according to a posting by the Iona McGregor Fire District. Murray, his wife Yesenia and Koki, a junior at Bishop Verot High School, were among the more than 200 people who were displaced. Their home was among the more than 100 damaged in three communities Sunday when a tornado with winds of up to 118 mph ripped through South Fort Myers, cutting a 125-yard-wide swath as it traveled on the ground for just under two miles. ![]() This mobile home, belonging to the family of Edward Murray, was overturned and completely upside down after a tornado touched down in South Fort Myers Sunday.Ĭottage Point Trailer Park resident Edward Murray stood in front of his upside down home at Windcrest Drive and Point Breeze Drive late Monday morning, glad he, his teenage daughter Koki and the family dog Coco escaped without serious injury, but worried about whether he would be able to salvage his family’s belongings inside.
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