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  • Florida man survives Hurricane Ian by floating on a sofa for two-and-a-half hours

    10/04/2022 7:46:01 PM PDT · by Tolerance Sucks Rocks · 25 replies
    Sky News ^ | October 3, 2022 | Jonathan Samuels, presenter, and Eleanor Deeley, producer
    In the sunshine state, we met the sofa survivor. In the worst hit part of southwest Florida, David Dean told us how he saw out Hurricane Ian. "I found myself around three or four in the afternoon, floating on a sofa with my head just above the ceiling fans, 18 inches below the ceiling. I was gasping for air." As the water rose inside David's 1970s single-storey park home, he planned for the worst - and an exit route. "From that point, it was going to be to try to get out the door and hold on to a palm...