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NOAA maps show street-by-street views of Hurricane Ian's destruction

Thursday's view of a marina in downtown Fort Myers, contrasted with a photo from before Hurricane Ian. (NOAA)

We’ve already seen the frightening scenes that Hurricane Ian brought to southwest Florida , but the full extent of the storm’s impact is becoming more detailed now that the federal government is publishing aerial photos taken during recent survey flights. 

Imagery posted on an interactive map was taken by NOAA’s Remote Sensing Division "to support homeland security and emergency response needs" after the storm.  The photos – taken during long sweeps by the agency's Hawker Beechcraft King Air 350CER plane starting on Thursday – cover a 50-mile swath from Cayo Costa, where the storm’s eye made landfall, down to Sanibel and then up the Caloosahatchee River to Fort Myers.

A second 15-mile stretch covers the coast west of Cape Coral.

LINK: See NOAA's damage map

AFTER: The Sanibel Causeway (NOAA)

One of the most obvious features visible in the photos is the destruction of the Sanibel Causeway . Two sections of the span are entirely gone, but the imagery also shows just much sand and debris is covering what remains of the causeway.

Further west, many resorts and homes along Captiva Island appear to be inundated with sand and water, while some boats can be seen up along the shore.

AFTER: Middle Gulf Drive beach in Sanibel. (NOAA)

Photos show the Sanibel Lighthouse is still standing, though it’s not yet clear if it was damaged.

Up the Caloosahatchee, damage to Fort Myers is clear. Boats in the Legacy Harbor Marina were tossed ashore; the nearby City Yacht Basin fared slightly better.

AFTER: The Legacy Harbour Marina (NOAA)

NOAA says the website will be updated as more flights take place.

RELATED: Beloved Bubble Room on Captiva Island is still standing, satellite image shows, but extent of damage unknown

Hurricane Ian made landfall Wednesday as a powerful Category 4 storm with 150-mph winds and a 12-foot storm surge. Several deaths have been blamed on the storm and rescues are still taking place.

Ian has regained hurricane strength in the Atlantic and is expected to make a second landfall Friday night in South Carolina .

AFTER: The Blind Pass area (NOAA)

NOAA’s interactive damage map can be found at https://storms.ngs.noaa.gov/storms/ian/index.html .  Note that it may be easier to navigate the site from a desktop computer instead of a mobile device. More details:  https://storms.ngs.noaa.gov /

This story was reported from Tampa, Fla.

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Cape Coral city leaders revealed what they are calling "the final master plan for the Cape Coral Yacht Club" at Wednesday's Committee of the Whole meeting.

The Yacht Club has sat fenced up ever since Hurricane Ian destroyed the ballroom and pier.

According to the plan, the new Yacht club will have an expanded beach, new restaurant, a resort-style pool with lanes and more. For the link to the whole plan, click here .

To keep up with our ever-growing city, there will also be nearly 900 parking spaces. That includes 158 for boats and 596 for cars. To fit that much parking, they need to build a 4-story parking garage in place of the pickleball and tennis courts.

Ron Austin from the Southwest Florida Yacht Club also spoke at Wednesday's city council meeting. He is asking the city if the new community center could be his club's new permanent home.

"We have 400 miles of canals in Cape Coral. We have a lot of boats. Thousands of boats. And without that would be a great thing for the citizens to have a yacht club to be in." Austin said.

Council members said they understand the public's frustration with how long this is taking. They are frustrated too, but they need to get a lot of state and federal permits approved to take on a project this size.

NBC2 asked the city how long this would all take. They sent the following response:

"The Yacht Club Master Plan will come before the council for approval at a future meeting. A timeline for this will be developed in the next few weeks.

Once the council receives and approves the final design and associated fees, the project will move into the design phase.

We anticipate completion within 3-4 years, but this is contingent on federal and state permits."

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"We can make sure that we are financially in the best position we can be moving forward.”

Inside Cape Coral Council Chambers, the future of the city is on the agenda and it starts with permits.

“We’re going through a paper process right now to be able to quickly get through all of those permits," says Ryan Lamb, Fire Chief & Emergency Management Officer for the City of Cape Coral. "We know a majority of the roofs here in Cape Coral were damaged so they’re all going to require permits to get fixed.”

To allow for a quicker, more stream-lined process the city says it will start a ‘push-button’ system. That way more permits can get out and recovery can begin sooner. Also on the minds of many- debris collection.

“One of the big questions that everyone has been asking about- the resident C&D drop-off site will open tomorrow morning at 8:00. The hours will be 8-6 daily.”

You don’t have to look too far to see just how much has piled up in the last month. Since the start of debris collection, the city says crews have removed more than 13,000 truckloads from Cape Coral streets. That’s the size of 104 football fields!

"Certainly there’s volumes and volumes of this debris that’s out there," said Lamb. "It’s going to take some time for that to get collected.”

At the Cape Coral Yacht Club, you can see some of that destruction from Hurricane Ian first-hand. You can see some of the debris piling up in the roads and some of the boats being left unmanned in the harbor.

"Because of the amount of storm surge seen at that location, it did get over the electrical outlets," Lamb said. "So it’s red tagged due to that and due to some structural stability in some different areas. That’s going to be a longer push for the structures there.”

The yacht club will stay closed for now due to safety concerns. City leaders will also host a town hall next week with FEMA. There they hope to continue to receive aid and get the debris off the streets, shingles on the roof and boats back in the harbor.

Said Lamb, "It’s important for us here in the city we advocate for our city, for our residents, to make sure that we get our equal share of representation.”

The city also says to avoid bagging up debris otherwise it won’t be picked up. The best method is to leave it out at your curb or take it to a debris drop-off site.

Residents can drop off vegetative debris at 2930 NW 13th Street from 8 a.m. - 6 p.m. daily. You can also see an interactive debris collection map right here . Or check out the hurricane debris and garbage collection page .

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Hurricane Ian levels plans for Cape Coral Yacht Club

By chuck ballaro - | jan 27, 2023.

James Pankonin, of Kimley-Horn, talks about the Cape Coral Yacht Club renovation during the City Council retreat Thursday at the Nicholas Street Annex Conference Room. CHUCK BALLARO

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Plans for a $60 million dollar renovation of the Cape Coral Yacht Club appear to be another Hurricane Ian loss with the city now looking at a total rebuild.

Cape Coral City Council got a look Thursday at options for a completely re-imagined Yacht Club that would make the city-owned complex less like a park and more like a destination complete with a beach, retail and commercial opportunities and the feel of a resort.

Its buildings are a total loss and cannot be repaired or rebuilt as previously constructed due to federal regulations for flood-zone structures.

The main ballroom building at the historic riverfront park was appraised at $680,000; it needs $520,000 in repair. The second building, the Tony Rotino Center, was appraised at $467,000; it needs $350,000 in repairs.

Both buildings at the Driftwood Parkway park fall under FEMA’s 50 percent rule, which means the city can only repair a structure up to 50 percent of its value if it is in a flood zone. Both buildings went well over the limit and, since the city can’t raise the buildings to make them flood compliant, they will have to come down, council was told Thursday.

James Pankonin, of Kimley-Horn, which are the designers of the project, said the vision of the Yacht Club was a “return to its roots as Cape Coral’s premier waterfront venue and that a resort-style atmosphere should be created that plays to its strengths, like its views of the Caloosahatchee River, historic ballroom and fountain, a resort-style swimming pool, waterfront restaurant, marina and beach.

Amenities that don’t require a waterfront location, such as the tennis courts — a point of contention during the original renovation talks — could be relocated to other sites.

Council pretty much now has a blank canvas with which to work, and Pankonin gave the elected board five rough concepts. These included an improved marina and boating access, a new and maybe multiple piers; better and expanded waterfront access; as many as three restaurants; the possibility for commercial or retail, much more parking and a range of amenities that capitalize on riverfront location.

As for a pool, many on Council liked the idea of a resort-style design and rejected the possibility of the Olympic-sized pool, something the city has said it would like to see for nearly a year but not at this location where a resort pool would be more appropriate.

Council member Bill Steinke said he wanted demolition work to start.

“We are not fixing these buildings, so let’s remove them. To look at empty land is better than watching destruction and I don’t want them to be a hazard,” said Steinke, who added he would like to see the project done in phases, which is now possible since the entire park is being redone instead of its edges.

Also, work can start immediately once the permits come in, now that the city can start on seawalls and that they are not keeping the buildings.

As for cost and a timeline, that is unknown. Originally, the timeline was 24 months, but if restaurants are added on a pier and if things go more vertical, it could be longer.

Mayor John Gunter said he was happy the outer footprint hasn’t changed much, except for the pier the city lost due to the storm for which they will have to get a permit.

But Gunter added he hopes insurance will pay for the damage done to the buildings.

“When you see the damage Ian did, and we have to adhere to the 50 percent rule like everybody else, those buildings will be replaced,” Gunter said. “We will get some insurance reimbursement for those buildings. It probably won’t pay for a new building, but it will mitigate the costs and with the blank slate we can move the components of the project.”

Hurricane Ian, a near Category 5 storm with winds of up to 155 mph made landfall on Caya Costa on Sept. 28. Its storm surge inundated Fort Myers Beach, Sanibel, Captiva and communities all along the Caloosahatchee and Gulf-access waterfront including Matlacha and Cape Coral’s Gold Coast where homes near the the Yacht Club complex — the city’s oldest and most iconic public complex — took up to six feet of water. Receding waters left the area littered with boats of all sizes and homes with inches of muck and soaked possessions and drywall.

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