A new hurricane policy at Calusa Harbour, a senior living community in Fort Myers, Florida, is raising alarms among residents who say they could be forced to pay $1,000 each time a storm triggers a mandatory evacuation, WINK News reported.
For seniors living on fixed incomes, that kind of fee can turn an already stressful weather emergency into a financial crisis.
What’s happening?
Residents told WINK News that a hurricane evacuation charge was added after Sinceri Senior Living took over the community.
“They’re charging us $1,000 per occurrence per hurricane to move us out of an area that is a mandatory hurricane evacuation area,” Barbara Costabile explained…