One Florida community built to weather hurricanes endured Ian with barely a scratch
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Photo caption: Mark Wilkerson with his solar-powered golf cart. He was one of the first 100 people to move into Babcock Ranch. Photo credit: Carlos Osorio for NPR. Article by Scott Neuman. NPR – October 6, 2022.
BABCOCK RANCH, Fla. — Like many others in Southwest Florida, Mark Wilkerson seemingly gambled his life by choosing to shelter at home rather than evacuate when Hurricane Ian crashed ashore last week as a Category 4 storm. But it wasn’t just luck that saved Wilkerson and his wife, Rhonda, or prevented damage to their well-appointed one-story house. You might say that it was all by design. […]
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