Hurricane Ian pummels Florida

“The sea was walking the earth with a heavy heel.” That is how Zora Neale Hurston described the brutal hurricane and accompanying storm surge that devastated central Florida in 1928, in her novel “Their Eyes were Watching God”. On September 28th, a heavy, deadly heel returned to trample Florida once again. After ravaging Cuba and causing the island nation to lose power, Hurricane Ian made landfall on Florida’s west coast with relentless rain and winds approaching 150 mph (240 kph), just a few miles-per-hour shy of putting it into the most severe type of “category-five” designation. It was later downgraded to “category-two”.