{"id":136937,"date":"2022-09-30T09:45:49","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T13:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=136937"},"modified":"2022-09-30T09:45:49","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T13:45:49","slug":"absolute-devastation-ian-decimates-fort-myers-beach-but-why-did-they-pick-fort-myers-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=136937","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Absolute devastation&#8217;: Ian decimates Fort Myers Beach &#8212; But why did they pick Fort Myers? (Photo)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>SOTN Editor&#8217;s Note:<\/strong> No other <em>Alt Media <\/em>platform on the Internet today has covered Hurricane Ian as SOTN has.\u00a0 This website has warned for several months of an apocalyptic weather attack on the <em>Sunshine State<\/em>.\u00a0 This egregious act of geoterrorism was aimed specifically at southwest Florida for a variety of reasons.\u00a0 While the rich Democrats have always gravitated to the southeast coast of Florida, the wealthy Republicans have moved to the southwest coast.\u00a0 In point of fact, all of the cities and towns, islands and coastal communities which were totally devastated by Ian were heavily populated by conservative heavyweights.\u00a0 Many of those Patriots who were quite deliberately targeted with this weather warfare were big GOP donors, nationally influential politicos and major conservative influencers throughout Florida.<\/p>\n<p>State of the Nation<br \/>\nSeptember 30, 2022<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_136939\" style=\"width: 2570px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-136939\" class=\"size-full wp-image-136939\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/44420222-12b5-80f2-01ae-e810ae0f7e11-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/44420222-12b5-80f2-01ae-e810ae0f7e11-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/44420222-12b5-80f2-01ae-e810ae0f7e11-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/44420222-12b5-80f2-01ae-e810ae0f7e11-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/44420222-12b5-80f2-01ae-e810ae0f7e11-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/44420222-12b5-80f2-01ae-e810ae0f7e11-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/44420222-12b5-80f2-01ae-e810ae0f7e11-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-136939\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jake Moses, 19, left, and Heather Jones, 18, of Fort Myers, explore a section of destroyed businesses at Fort Myers Beach on Thursday, Sep. 29, 2022. The community was mostly destroyed after Hurricane Ian made landfall on Wednesday. (Douglas R. Clifford\/Tamps Bay Times\/TNS)<\/p><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>READ HERE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/digitaledition.baltimoresun.com\/infinity\/article_share.aspx?guid=220e5572-aaa9-47ac-b755-98bf95a37f02\">https:\/\/digitaledition.baltimoresun.com\/infinity\/article_share.aspx?guid=220e5572-aaa9-47ac-b755-98bf95a37f02<\/a><\/h3>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sotn-special"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}