“She was just the sweetest little old lady,” explains Eckerd College junior Tay Zilinskas, an animal studies student from Kissimmee, Florida. “She was about 80 years old, didn’t speak English, and lived in a poor neighborhood outside of Fort Myers. Her daughter was killed in the hurricane, and the storm wrecked her house.

Read and written by Tom Zucco. For the web version, and photos, visit https://www.eckerd.edu/news/blog/students-spring-break-hurricane-ian-survivors/