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| Above, a cruise ship view of the Florida coast after leaving Fort Lauderdale. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
Hurricane Ian left much devastation to the state of Florida. It will take years to get things back into some semblance of normalcy in some areas.
This includes the RV community of RV parks and campgrounds. Some were completely destroyed and some had relatively minor damage.
RV Travel takes a look at how RVers were affected.
They begin with:
September 28 will long be remembered by Floridians, and those who call Florida their winter home. Hurricane Ian blasted ashore, the fifth-strongest hurricane to ever make landfall on the U.S. mainland. Ian made other unwelcome records. The deadliest hurricane in Florida since the 1935 Labor Day hurricane, it has cut short the lives of nearly 140 people—and sadly, the toll will likely grow. Some reports suggest property damage could top $63 billion. But what effect did Ian have on the RV community?
Florida watches its population swell by around 5 percent each winter as the snowbirds arrive. It’s hard to get a handle on just how many snowbirds flutter in. One estimate suggests about 900,000 to a million non-Floridians stay in the Everglades State for a least a month each year. Of those, a large number come with their motorhomes and trailers. One of the state’s Chambers of Commerce boasts that the state has more than 900 licensed RV parks, that sport 125,000 sites. How many more stay on properties of friends, or camp out in government-owned parks can’t even be fathomed.
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