South Florida coastal businesses back in business after Nicole

FORT LAUDERDALE – As storm surge from Hurricane Nicole got here onto shore, many coastal store house owners and businesses questioned what the aftermath can be like because the solar got here up Thursday morning.

CBS4 talked with one chocolate store proprietor who was pressured seeing what occurred following Hurricane Ian.

“I was feeling a little nervous when the hurricane wasn’t going north and it was still coming west. I mean people in Fort Myers really got hit hard and I didn’t want it to happen here,” Jan Lendi, proprietor of Jan’s Homemade Candies.

For over 20 years, Lendi and her household have been successful awards for his or her confections at their store on Ocean Drive in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea. More just lately, although, her husband began one thing new that regulars would acknowledge, he started charting the course of oncoming hurricanes.

“Probably since Wilma,” Lendi defined.

Hurricane Wilma was one other late one which occurred in October of 2005.

“When Wilma came we didn’t have electricity for 2 1/2 weeks, so naturally everything melted,” she stated.

Shortly after, the household put up an indication promoting free goodies and occasional, they hoped it could deliver a little bit of sweetness throughout a darkish time.

“Those can be replaced, but people can’t,” she stated.

This time Lendi was relieved, Nicole’s affect was minimal and close by businesses largely had sand to scrub up. Though, notably, the pier at Lauderdale-by-the-Sea suffered a partial collapse that has it now closed off to everybody.

“We were lucky,” Lendi added.