One year ago, tornadoes spawned by Hurricane Milton ripped through North Fort Myers, tearing homes apart and destroying some businesses.
Fox 4’s North Fort Myers Community Correspondent, Austin Schargorodski, covered the damage back then. Now, a year later, he returned to see how far the recovery has come.Watch to hear what businesses told Austin about the recovery the past year:
A year later, we checked in with NFM businesses torn apart by a Milton tornado
In Pine Lakes and Lake Fairways, a tornado carved a path of destruction, ripped roofs, battered homes, and littered streets with debris. But homes weren’t the only things hit in the area – North Plaza off Pondella Road, home to businesses like Xtreme Barbershop, took a direct hit too.
Barber Lazaro Ochoa gave Schargorodski a video showing the roof of the shop ripped off and the inside left in shambles. Ochoa says coming there after the storm wasn’t easy.
“It was a hard moment. Because I’ve been working here for a long time and have many friendships, and a lot of people I have a relationship with, and it was sad to realize that you could lose your job,” said Ochoa…