Tamara Pigott still fights back tears when she thinks about Hurricane Ian.
While Ian is just one of many challenges she’s faced as Lee County’s tourism director, it’s the hardest. It’s the challenge that she lost the most sleep over — and that kept her on the job for years longer than planned, as she worked tirelessly to help the tourism industry pick up the pieces and bounce back from the deadly and destructive Category 4 storm.
“I have tears in my eyes, just thinking about it. It was a lot. It is a lot,” Pigott said…