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[lwlittrell]

Sand castle competition @fortmyersbeachfl had so many beautiful sculptures it was hard to choose my favorite! @ftmyerssanibel @visitflorida @fmb_chamber @bestofthesunshinestate #hashtagflorida #bestofthesunshinestate @bestofthesunshinestate_bnw #bestofthesunshinestate_bnw #floridaweekly @fortmyersfloridaweekly @island_sand_paper_fmb #sandsculpture #beachlife #fortmyersbeach #sandart #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #art (at The American Sand Sculpting Championship, Ft. Myers Beach, FL) https://www.instagram.com/p/B6LdRjYllH1/?igshid=vvqmwojt7udi

[barbaraumbel]

We’ve got a great collection of new black and white pieces to share with you this weekend. Come see us in space # 24 at ArtFest Fort Myers (close to the Cleveland Ave. bridge. ⚫️⚪️⚫️ #blackandwhite #newjewelry #artfestfm #artfestfm20in20 #FortMyers #FtMyersSanibel #fortmyersfl #downtownfortmyers #barbaraumbel #urchinjewel #umbels #indianharbourbeach #spacecoast #barbaraumbeljewelry #shelljewelry #seashelljewelry #handmadejewelry #contemporaryjewelry #artjewelry #shesellsseashells #modernheirlooms #statementpiece #goddessjewelry #travelingartist #artfest #popupshop #artfestival #artlife #weekendvibes @thenewspress @nbc2 @floridaweekly @wink_news @artfestfortmyers (at Downtown Fort Myers Historic District, Fort Myers) https://www.instagram.com/p/B7_FC-RhXEA/?igshid=gbrrrip7bv0g

[liberatewpb420]

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[truetfull]

Mesmerizing art photography #photography #naples #florida #artist #trendsetter #gallery #local #naplesdailynews #floridaweekly (at Naples Square Condominium Association)

[andyhowl]

#bestof2017 #floridaweekly @howlftmyers @howlbooks (at HOWL)

[scenefromthesidewalk]

July 23, 2018

MARY FISHER STUDIO

by Mary Fisher

“Mary Fisher was supposed to be dead by now,” @FloridaWeekly reports, but 27 years after being diagnosed with AIDS and capturing the national spotlight in 1992 with her address to the Republican National Convention, challenging the GOP to end their complacency over the raging crisis, Fisher is as driven as ever. Moving from a life of public service she turned her energy to mothering her two sons and found an inexplicable passion for making art. Now widely recognized for her jewelry and textile design as well as her painting, Fisher recently added this mural to her West Palm Beach studio on S Dixie Hwy. At almost 70 her studio is still a flurry of activity and filled with work in process, but despite her own ongoing health concerns she also continues to travel the globe as a speaker and AIDS activist and advocate for using art for good.  @maryfisherart/

[bitterbisous]

Tweeted

See how our member, Cathy Haworth of @FSBDCatFGCU, has helped #SmallBusinesses in #SWFL recover from #HurricaneIrma, via @FloridaWeekly: https://t.co/USGhSYMwjv The #BridgeLoan deadline is Nov. 30! Come to the #NaplesAccelerator for help! @SBAgov also is here 9-6 Mon-Sat.

— Naples Accelerator (@NaplesAcceler8) November 15, 2017

from Steelbridge Realty LLC https://rxnctus.tumblr.com/post/167590699876

[mcmiimms]

Tweeted

See how our member, Cathy Haworth of @FSBDCatFGCU, has helped #SmallBusinesses in #SWFL recover from #HurricaneIrma, via @FloridaWeekly: https://t.co/USGhSYMwjv The #BridgeLoan deadline is Nov. 30! Come to the #NaplesAccelerator for help! @SBAgov also is here 9-6 Mon-Sat.

— Naples Accelerator (@NaplesAcceler8) November 15, 2017

from Steelbridge Realty LLC https://rxnctus.tumblr.com/post/167590699876

[rxnctus]

Tweeted

See how our member, Cathy Haworth of @FSBDCatFGCU, has helped #SmallBusinesses in #SWFL recover from #HurricaneIrma, via @FloridaWeekly: https://t.co/USGhSYMwjv The #BridgeLoan deadline is Nov. 30! Come to the #NaplesAccelerator for help! @SBAgov also is here 9-6 Mon-Sat.

— Naples Accelerator (@NaplesAcceler8) November 15, 2017

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[barbaraumbel]

Let’s do this! I’m in the final stages of groundwork for this weekend’s ArtFest Fort Myers. Setting shells and stones this morning- we hope you can swing by and see our new pieces. We will be in space # 25 on Edwards Drive. 💎🐚💎 #artfestfm #artfestfm20in20 #FortMyers #FtMyersSanibel #fortmyersfl #downtownfortmyers #pauashell #motherofpearl #abalone #shellpendant #paua #shellearrings #abaloneshell #barbaraumbel #urchinjewel #umbels #indianharbourbeach #spacecoast #barbaraumbeljewelry #seatreasures #sculpturaljewelry #oceanjewelry #handmadeisbetter #shelljewelry #seashelljewelry #handmadejewelry #contemporaryjewelry #artjewelry #shesellsseashells @thenewspress @nbc2 @floridaweekly @wink_news @artfestfortmyers (at ArtFest Fort Myers) https://www.instagram.com/p/B78vOkLnCWy/?igshid=1m49622dz6c8x

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[llilly15]

Dress rehearsal

Hurricane Irma plowed into the Florida Keys with 130 mph winds just 16 days after Hurricane Harvey made landfall in coastal Texas. Harvey was a Category 4 storm with maximum sustained winds, also at 130 mph. The Weather Channel noted it was the first time “in 166 years of weather records, two Atlantic Category 4 hurricanes made landfall in the United States during the same year.”

We witnessed what Harvey wrought.  The slow-moving storm inundated southwest Texas, the Houston metro, and west and central Louisiana with torrential rains, dumping an estimated total of 27 trillion gallons of rainfall over that region in a six-day period. Catastrophic flooding occurred.

The human misery, despair, and suffering was heartbreaking. It affected tens of thousands of families, businesses, at least 100,000 homes, and caused 46 storm-related deaths— at last count.  The massive flooding affected creatures great and small. People, pets, predators, livestock, fur, and feather were displaced, drenched, and water-logged. They survived as living detritus, surrounded by and engulfed in the toxic, watery misery Harvey left behind.    

Then along came Hurricane Irma.  It was a Category 5 with 185 miles per hour wind. Only one other storm in the Atlantic was historically stronger, Hurricane Allen. Allen made landfall in Brownsville Texas in 1980 with sustained winds of 125 mph. It pushed a 12-foot storm surge into coastal Texas and dumped over 20 inches of rain as it passed through.  

Closer to home, based on wind speed and pressure, the most intense storm of record to ever hit Florida was the Labor Day Hurricane in 1935.  The Florida Keys were devastated, over 400 left dead.

By these comparisons, Irma was bad news. The forecast models predicted Florida would take a massive hit. The only uncertainty was where and to what extent the damage.    

Suddenly, our state, families, friends, businesses, and neighborhoods were in the bullseye of an extremely dangerous storm. Harvey was one version of hurricane havoc. But Irma was another, a gamechanger because of its intensity and size.   The state’s vulnerabilities are well-known if ignored by our state’s leadership. 

We have 1,350 miles of coastline and 2.4 million people and 1.3 million homes planted within 4 feet of the local high tide line. The earthen dike holding back Lake Okeechobee is precarious. Miami-Dade and Tampa-St. Petersburg are doors left wide open to destruction by a tidal surge. 

Sea level rise and a heated ocean are catnip to a hurricane. Irma had all the ingredients of our worst nightmare. Indeed, Irma was so massive, there was no place to run to in Florida that guaranteed safe harbor.  

We watched. The storm grew evermore monstrous in size and intensity, remaining a Category 5 for three consecutive days. Its strength, duration, and the breadth of its reach was terrifying. It exploded like a bomb in the Caribbean, reducing the scenic islands into an unrecognizable mass of despair.

 It took aim at Florida, grazing the northern coast of Cuba, and then slammed into the Florida Keys. Once it made landfall, Irma disappeared the entire state under its canopy of cyclonic winds, torrential downpours, and catastrophic flooding.  

The story of its aftermath is still unfolding, recovery only just begun. The tally of destruction is immense, measured not only in lives lost but by livelihoods destroyed, people and communities uprooted, and the familiarity of places so scoured to the bone they are unrecognizable to those bearing witness to their change. 

For many Floridians, Irma is the ruination of their expectations for the future. Hundreds of thousands of families lost community, security, and the meaning of home. Irma replaced it all with they-know-not- what.  Out in the ruin, ordinary people accomplished extraordinary things by helping one another—demonstrating courage in the face of fear, self-sacrifice on behalf of strangers, and compassion and caring for those in need. Irma awoke strength and resilience we did not know we had. But Irma also left a residue of sadness. 

Much of what has been lost and destroyed cannot be made whole again as if Irma never happened.  We know too much.Those who experienced Irma and suffered its consequences cannot undo the revelations the storm produced. Among them is the collective epiphany that Irma and Harvey were a dress rehearsal for a future of extreme weather we are unprepared to face.  

Florida has neither the infrastructure, resources, protections nor human capital to sustain the cost of our failure to act. The folly of climate change denial is at an astronomical cost to us all.   Harvey and Irma unmasked the stupidity of this willful ignorance. Those who fail to lead fail us all.    

So, call it what you will but the science is irrefutable: The seas are rising and the ocean is warming. Both trends are an engine that will produce more frequent, extreme weather events like the hurricanes we’ve just experienced.  This is the very scary, new normal. We must either confront this reality or lose hope that we can.  

Le3slie Lilly

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