FORT MEYERS, Fla. �� Brian Williams was caught in the rapidly intensifying Hurricane Irma in downtown Fort Myers early Sunday morning.
Williams has no home, and it was too late to get to a shelter. He had been staying with a friend in a mobile home. They thought they could ride out the storm there. Then they realized, as the storm came in, that they had better get out.
His friend and his friend's family went to the home of someone else they knew. Williams, 41, had no place to go. He eventually found his way to a parking garage.
With nothing to protect him from the wind but an umbrella, "I'm scared to death," he said.
"I was trying to get to a friend's house," Williams said. His plan was to walk. "It got too bad," he said.
This was Williams' first hurricane. It was a frightening introduction.
"I've never been through a hurricane or anything like it," he said, adding: "I don't know anything about these storms. But I know this is bad."
