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Paleoclimatologists seek clues about hurricanes in ocean sediment as Florida rebuilds after Ian
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It's been five months since Hurricane Ian decimated part of Florida. The storm killed 148 people and caused between $50 and $65 billion in insured losses. Across Florida, 5,000 homes were destroyed and another 30,000 damaged.
Here & Now's Robin Young visited Fort Myers, where residents are still rebuilding, and went out on a boat trip with Florida Gulf Coast University’s Water School paleoclimatologist Jo Muller, who studies the history of storms through ocean sediments that can identify storms going back nearly a millennium.





This segment aired on February 22, 2023.