{"id":159132,"date":"2026-02-18T00:42:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T00:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/159132\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T00:42:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T00:42:06","slug":"cape-coral-prepares-for-future-disasters-with-new-recovery-plan-lee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/159132\/","title":{"rendered":"Cape Coral prepares for future disasters with new recovery plan | Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CAPE CORAL &#8211; The city is gearing up to tackle future disasters head-on by refining its recovery plans.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We want to make sure that when a disaster strikes our city, that we&#8217;re as prepared as we can be and we have a tough city,&#8221; said Ryan Lamb, director of emergency management.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, residents gathered to share their experiences with Tetra Tech, a consulting company helping to develop the city&#8217;s next recovery plan.<\/p>\n<p>After Hurricane Ian, Lee County was awarded $1.1 billion, said Lamb. This project is one of five planning initiatives.<\/p>\n<p>Cindy Magnuson from the Red Cross emphasized the importance of addressing mental health and post-traumatic stress in recovery efforts.<\/p>\n<p>The city aims to complete its disaster and cost recovery plan within the next two months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CAPE CORAL &#8211; The city is gearing up to tackle future disasters head-on by refining its recovery plans.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159133,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,76257,11947,28,1694,356,76256,17217],"class_list":["post-159132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-director-of-emergency-management","tag-effects-of-climate-change","tag-florida","tag-ian","tag-lee-county","tag-recovery-plan","tag-red-cross"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}