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    Some in Florida were spared from the worst, but disaster wasn't far away

    by By Evan Halper, Los Angeles Times Sep 11, 2017 3 minutes

    NAPLES, Fla. - The historic Naples Pier at the end of 12th Avenue was still standing. Some of the streetlights had flickered back to life. The pricey houses that line the sugar sand beaches, the ones everyone feared would be struggling to stand against a surging inland sea, were barely damp.

    A day after Hurricane Irma made landfall near here in what forecasters warned would be one of the most destructive storms ever to hit Florida, the pretty little seaside town of Naples, near ground zero

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