And here it is in the middle of the street. "The beach is supposed to be out on the beach. "Loved it when we got here - still love it, but we're just so sad to see the devastation and we're heartbroken for the people and the losses and the beauty that's right now in shambles," Simon said, adding that she's worried about how demand for contractors in the area will slow their recovery.Īt the corner of Bonita Beach Road and Hickory Boulevard, Steven Blumrosen was eyeing the damage to Barefoot Beach for the first time since he evacuated from his Bonita Springs condo in his R-V to a rest stop off I-75 with about 15 other people. WUSF Public Media Sarah Simon said her home in Bonita Shores had about two feet of water outside and into the garage, and about a foot of water in the house she recently purchased five months ago. She just moved there with her daughter from California five months ago. Sarah Simon, who was riding bike along Bonita Beach Road to take a break from cleaning up flood damage in her Bonita Shores home, is not letting this storm push her out of Florida. Some of Crosser's classic games were found a mile down the road, but they were ruined by salt water, or crushed by passing cars. "I used to teach history before I opened the store and I'm from Iowa so I think I'm gonna move back to Iowa for a couple of years and teach and just see and get some money built back up and then maybe open another one, but I don't know where." "It kind of comes and goes and hits me,” Crosser said. He had over $2 million worth of video games from the 1970s all the way to the PS-5, and only a tenth of it was insured. the building was submerged underwater, and then nine-tenths of it floated away," he said. "Everything I was making from it, I was kind of just putting back into the store over the years and just building and building it and. WUSF Public Media Jason Crosser has owned 8-Bit Hall of Fame in Bonita Springs for nine years, until Hurricane Ian swept through, clearing out his classic video game inventory. He started this business nine years ago with his own personal collection, but due to the support of the local gaming community, it became a success. “I don't even know why … I came back today because everything is trashed, but I just didn't want to sit around and do nothing at my house,” Crosser said. Crosser sat in a chair just outside of his shell of a store looking defeated, among large shards of broken glass, video game cases and gray mud. Just a few blocks east on Bonita Beach Road is Jason Crosser's classic video game store called 8-Bit Hall of Fame, or what’s left of it. So, it's sad to see but we'll be back in business. The boat found furthest from Botana’s business was about a quarter mile away, but he remained optimistic.
But it was so much water so fast, they floated.” “So many boats from the neighbor three blocks away ended over here, and some of mine ended over there. “When it comes slowly, that's when the damage is the worst,” Botana said. WUSF Public Media About 50 of 80 rental boats, owned by Omar Botana (white shirt), were scattered across Bonita Beach Road after storm surge from Hurricane Ian caused them to travel in random directions.
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