Booted, backpacked and braced for the worst, Sanibel residents and workers didn't know what they'd find on the barrier island post-Ian.
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Boatload by boatload – and the odd helicopter bellyful – people are returning to Sanibel.
The city hasn’t officially estimated how many have made it back after the now-unbridged island’s reopening Wednesday. Unofficially, things have been pretty quiet, reports resident Bridgit Stone-Budd, who weathered the storm in her self-described treehouse with her mother, Linda Miller, husband, Dan, and dogs Sophie, Adrian and puppy Goose.
Residents and workers arrived booted, backpacked and braced for the worst. The 18-square mile barrier island they stepped back onto is staggeringly different than the one they left before
Hurricane Ian upended life on Sept. 28...
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