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Survivors of Hurricane Ian face a long emotional road to recover from one of the most damaging storms to hit the U.S. mainland

Ten days after Hurricane Ian tore through his small, tight-knit waterfront community of Fort Myers Beach with a storm surge estimated as high as 18 feet, Jerry Altrip boarded a bus and made his way back from the mainland across the causeway that connects to the small barrier island.

On a coast where a few miles meant the difference between life and death, relief and ruin, the contrasting scenes of reality less than two weeks since the hurricane’s onslaught are jarring,

This year, major storms hit from the Philippines in the western Pacific to the Canary Islands in the eastern Atlantic, and the Canadian Maritimes in the high latitudes.