{"id":55142,"date":"2022-09-27T17:50:31","date_gmt":"2022-09-27T21:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=55142"},"modified":"2022-09-27T17:50:56","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T21:50:56","slug":"lee-county-has-declared-a-local-state-of-emergency-due-to-hurricane-ian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2022\/09\/lee-county-has-declared-a-local-state-of-emergency-due-to-hurricane-ian\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee County has declared a local State of Emergency due to Hurricane Ian"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Mandatory evacuations will be for all of Zone A, all of Zone B, and for partials areas of Zone C.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"789\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screen-Shot-2022-09-27-at-2.41.18-PM-1024x789-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-55143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screen-Shot-2022-09-27-at-2.41.18-PM-1024x789-1.png 1024w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screen-Shot-2022-09-27-at-2.41.18-PM-1024x789-1-300x231.png 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screen-Shot-2022-09-27-at-2.41.18-PM-1024x789-1-768x592.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Around 2:00 pm, Lee County extended the evacuation to portions of Zone C. This order covered Zone C in North Cape and in North Fort Myers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sanibel Island mayor Holly. D Smith proclaimed a nighttime curfew for Sanibel between 9:00 p.m. \u2013 6:00 a.m. A precautionary boil water notice for the island will be in effect starting at 1:00 a.m. Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are unsure of your evacuation zone, view&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/leegis.maps.arcgis.com\/apps\/webappviewer\/index.html?id=347e85a76bcd4e92ae45d387fd088938\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">HERE<\/a>. (Click on the magnifying glass to enter your address).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ten emergency shelters will be opening this morning at 9 a.m. They are opening an additional five as well. All shelters are pet friendly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Dunbar High School, 3800 Edison Avenue, Fort Myers<\/li><li>East Lee County High School, 715 Thomas Sherwin Avenue, Lehigh Acres<\/li><li>Estero Recreation Center, 9200 Corkscrew Palms Blvd, Estero<\/li><li>Gateway High School, 13820 Griffin Drive, Fort Myers<\/li><li>Hertz Arena, 11000 Everblades Parkway, Estero<\/li><li>Island Coast High School,2125 DeNavarra Pkwy, Cape Coral<\/li><li>Oak Hammock Middle School, 5321 Tice Street, Fort Myers<\/li><li>South Fort Myers High School, 14020 Plantation Road, Fort Myers<\/li><li>Varsity Lakes Middle School, 801 Gunnery Road North, Lehigh Acres<\/li><li>Veterans Park Recreation Center, 49 Homestead Road S, Lehigh Acres<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Lee County manager, Roger Desjarlais, said the landfall is moving south and that residents are \u201cvery likely going to feel the later effects in the storm surge projections.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mandatory evacuations will be for all of Zone A, all of Zone B, and for partials areas of Zone C. Around 2:00 pm, Lee County extended the evacuation to portions&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":55143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[1694],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55142"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55144,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55142\/revisions\/55144"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}