Animal Lovers Brave Brunt of Hurricane Ian for Pets’ Sake

Lisa and Carl Motteler enjoy sunshine in front of a storm-toppled tree with their Quarter horses named This Corona is Holt and Famous Troubullmaker on Oct. 4, 2022, six days after Hurricane Ian pounded their Punta Gorda, Fla, farm. Jann Falkenstern/The Epoch Times

PUNTA GORDA, Fla.–The day Hurricane Ian roared ashore—Sept. 28—will be an anniversary no one in Southwest Florida wants to celebrate.

The Category 4 storm left communities on the Gulf Coast, and the people who live there, devastated.