The cleanup moved quickly, but the damage was still hard to miss.<\/p>\n
One home had its roof completely gone, walls caved in and a piece of metal hanging out. The area looked very different than it did the night before because neighbors said the cleanup started the moment the storm passed.<\/p>\n
Larry Schroeder didn’t even see the tornado\u2014he heard it.<\/p>\n
“I was sitting in there, and I said, it’s noisy outside, so I got up to look, and by the time I got up to look, it was gone,” Schroeder said.<\/p>\n
By the time he stepped outside, roofs were ripped apart, power lines were down and debris covered the streets. James Gott, a neighbor, said there was metal and parts and windows laying in the middle of the streets.<\/p>\n
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While some neighbors woke up to the damage, others never saw the storm coming. One woman was about to walk her dog when it started raining.<\/p>\n
Seconds later, flying debris hit her as she ran inside, leaving her with a fractured foot. Gott said those storms can be very brutal.<\/p>\n
The sound of heavy equipment replaced the sound of the wind Monday. Neighbors helped their neighbors, knowing some of these homes may never be the same.<\/p>\n
“I feel really bad for our neighbors. I mean, they’re good friends of ours,” Kelly Wright said.<\/p>\n
For Schroeder, the damage felt all too familiar.<\/p>\n
“It was just like living Ian all over again because in Ian, it was just like, you know, roofs got torn off houses too. I lost mine on my house, so I know what it’s like, and it’s a sad thing,” Schroeder said.<\/p>\n
Neighbors tell WINK News they were thankful no lives were lost and everyone in their community was okay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NORTH FORT MYERS, Fla. (WINK)\u2014A tornado touched down in North Fort Myers Sunday, leaving homes damaged and neighbors…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325468,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,28,897,2072,134559],"class_list":["post-325467","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-florida","tag-fort-myers","tag-national-weather-service","tag-tornadoes-in-florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325467","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=325467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}