Human remains found in Florida, inside a boat destroyed by Hurricane Ian, would be that of James Hurst, 72, who was
the last person missing due to this cyclone that hit the state on September 28.
Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno confirmed Sunday night in a Twitter message that the remains found inside the
Good Girl
boat
are those of Hurst
, who decided to await Ian's arrival inside his boat docked at a marina in Fort Myers Beach in Southwest Florida.
And since then he was missing.
James 'Denny' Hurst.
The 72-year-old man who died during Hurricane Ian.
The story of the discovery of human remains in Florida
Authorities pulled the boat out of the sea on Friday
, a day after a worker at a marina across the bay discovered it.
Subsequent forensic analysis confirmed that the human remains found inside the boat corresponded to
Hurst, who suffered from mobility problems and whose family was notified of the results.
The destruction of Hurricane Ian that reached Florida in category 4. Photo/EFE
"It's finally done. We're glad they finally found you and you're home. I love you. I miss you. We all do it," said the deceased's daughter,
Shannon Vaughan, in statements collected by the Florida news channel, WBBH.
The finding occurs after Sheriff Marceno announced last Thursday that the body of 82-year-old Ilonka Knes was discovered in some Fort Myers mangroves
, who died of drowning and was one of the two people who were still missing as a result. of the mighty hurricane.
Ian: a devastating hurricane that swept through Cuba and the United States
After hitting Cuba, Ian made landfall on the southwestern coast of Florida
on September 28 as a category 4 hurricane on the Saffir Simpson scale
, out of a maximum of five.
A photo of the eye of Hurricane Ian, provided by the United States Weather Service.
Photo: AFP
It was the most dangerous of the 2022 season in the Atlantic, with more than 145 deaths, 68 of them in Lee County,
and provisionally estimated damage of about $50 billion in this southern state alone.
The federal government has delivered to date more than 4,000 million dollars in aid to the Florida authorities
and those affected in this state by Hurricane Ian, an amount that has been allocated both for emergency operations when the disaster occurred and for the recovery tasks.
According to the US network CNN,
days after Hurricane Ian hit Florida
, residents are still assessing the damage and the devastation left some areas "unrecognizable".
Nearly 900,000 customers in Florida still had no power as of early Sunday morning, according to PowerOutage.us.
More than 30,000 were without power in North Carolina.
The forecast for Hurricane Ian's passage through Florida.
Photo/File
The hurricane would be ranked "the costliest in Florida history," CNN reported
.
While the sunshine has returned to Florida, many are dealing with the aftermath.
The devastation spread from Florida's coastal towns to inland cities like Orlando, but was felt most intensely in southwestern coastal communities like Fort Myers and Naples.
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