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Fort Myers Beach, Florida, acts as a barrier island on the southwestern side of Florida. Fort Myers sustained extensive damage after Hurricane Ian made landfall on September 28th. Boats were washed up into neighborhoods and some buildings were gone entirely. The buildings that did remain standing had their entire first floor destroyed. The Ney York times was able to identify 400 buildings as visibly damaged through a survey of photographs and videos of the Hurricane Ian's aftermath. The damage identified is just a fraction of the destruction brought by the storm across all of Fort Myers Beach and the swath of the central Florida coast. The main commercial area, nicknamed “Times Square,” was almost completely leveled.