Its often hard to fathom the extent of storm damage when all you see are short clips on the news. But the NOAA has a department called the Remote Sensing Division which gets satellite flyover imagery if disaster sites so they can further study the damage and effects giant storms have. At this link you can see the most recent images of both sides of Florida where Ian made landfall, and where it went back into the Atlantic. You can even scroll north to see what the storm did to South Carolina too.
Don’t forget to donate to the relief efforts in whatever way you prefer. We’ll have links on our website to local places that need assistance so you can donate locally too.
You can see just a small difference between the still available Google Map image of the Sanibel Causeway here:
And here’s the same causeway from the recent NOAA pictures: