CHARLOTTE COUNTY (Punta Gorda)
• Up to 40 people came to Charlotte Regional Medical Center with storm injuries. The hospital was so badly damaged that patients were being transferred to other hospitals.
• At Charlotte County Airport, winds tore apart small planes. Hangars were collapsed, and roofs were torn off.
• The roof of the county's emergency operations center in Punta Gorda blew off.
COLLIER COUNTY (Naples)
• Officials said a "good portion" of the county was without power, and there was some flooding. No serious reports of damage.
DESOTO COUNTY (Arcadia)
• The roof was blown off at Turner Agri-Civic Center in Arcadia, a hurricane shelter where 1,200 people had gathered. There was one known injury.
• Large sections of U.S. 17 are peppered with downed utility poles; some parts of the road are completely blocked.
LEE COUNTY (Fort Myers)
• A Fort Myers man who stepped outside to smoke a cigarette died when a banyan tree fell on him.
• A tornado touched down in southwest Cape Coral. Cape Coral City Hall sustained damage. Cape Coral Hospital sustained significant damage.
• Eyewitness video showed the roof of a Fort Myers post office ripped off.
ORANGE COUNTY (Orlando)
• A wind gust causes a truck to collide with a car, killing a young girl.
POLK (Bartow, Lakeland)
• An amateur radio operator reports several mobile homes were destroyed.
SARASOTA COUNTY (Sarasota)
• A crash on I-75 kills one.
Punta Gorda hit badly. LE is guarding stacks of bodies in a mobile home park there according to FoxNews. 4 counties declared major disaster areas.
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