During Hurricane Ian, Shrimp survived the storm on a boat.now they are left without a job

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Shrimp boat workers Javier Alan López (left), 34, and Oriel Martinez Alvarado, 51, sit in the shade of one of the shrimp boats. Some of my colleagues sought shelter during Hurricane Ian on Wednesday afternoon. On Friday, September 30, 2022, they took refuge from the sun on land near her Trico Shrimp Company in Fort Myers. With nowhere else to go, workers resorted to traveling from boat to boat, Alvarado said.

Shrimp boat workers Javier Alan López (left), 34, and Oriel Martinez Alvarado, 51, sit in the shade of one of the shrimp boats. Some of my colleagues sought shelter during Hurricane Ian on Wednesday afternoon. On Friday, September 30, 2022, they took refuge from the sun on land near her Trico Shrimp Company in Fort Myers. With nowhere else to go, workers resorted to traveling from boat to boat, Alvarado said.

The “Eight & Ace” is perched precariously on land near the Trico Shrimp Company in the port of Matanzas. Beneath the shadow cast by the black and white hull of a shrimp fishing boat, sailors Oriel Martinez Alvarado and Javier Alan López passed away.

Dozens of flip-flops and HEYDUDE boat shoes (paired and unpaired) seemed to float from the Times Square store in Fort Myers Beach. They and others gathered what they found among the lumber, furniture and toys scattered around the shipyard on Friday afternoon and placed them on a concrete pillar that had fallen in the storm.

On Friday, Sept. 30, 2022, dozens of pairs of shoes placed on shelves were collected by Shrimp Boat crew workers. Crew members discovered that after Hurricane Ian passed through the area at Fort Myers on Wednesday afternoon, storm surges had deposited the shoreline.

On Friday, Sept. 30, 2022, dozens of pairs of shoes placed on shelves were collected by Shrimp Boat crew workers. Crew members discovered that after Hurricane Ian passed through the area at Fort Myers on Wednesday afternoon, storm surges had deposited the shoreline.

Fort Myers Beach’s long history of shrimp farming was the largest commercial shrimp fishing fleet in the Gulf of Mexico, but the storm surge of Hurricane Ian threw around huge boats that looked like bass toys, leaving most of them It got stuck on land, so it collided and stopped.

The area is home to the largest commercial shrimp fleet in the Gulf of Mexico, so you can trust your work in the area. But now Martinez, Lopez and other shrimp fishers are indefinitely unemployed.

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“We have a family waiting for us, but we have nothing. That’s our concern,” Martinez said in Spanish.

Before Ian, it was too late to evacuate. So they rode through all of the storm on a shrimp boat.

“We didn’t have time to leave or move because the highway was already congested,” Martinez said. “We couldn’t get away from it because we could have been killed if we hit it on the highway. We were stuck there.”

'Captain Rain', 'Big Daddy' and 'Ms Shirley' A shrimp fishing boat lay in various damaged states near the Trico Shrimping Company in Fort Myers Beach on Friday. Hurricane Ian passed through the area Wednesday afternoon and made landfall.

On Friday, the ‘Captain Rain’, ‘Big Daddy’ and ‘Ms Shirley’ shrimp fishing boats lay with various damage near the Trico Shrimping Company in Fort Myers Beach. Hurricane Ian passed through the area Wednesday afternoon and made landfall.

During the storm, Martinez and Lopez worried that the boat they were on, Ms. Shirley, would sink. So they boarded Big Daddy with her two other sailors.

“The whole boat was going round and round,” Lopez said.

The passage was dangerous. Martinez was injured after hitting his leg. They prayed for their safety.

On Friday, September 30, 2022, two shrimp boats beached near the Trico Shrimp Company on San Carlos Island after Hurricane Ian passed through the area on Wednesday afternoon.

On Friday, September 30, 2022, two shrimp boats beached near the Trico Shrimp Company on San Carlos Island after Hurricane Ian passed through the area on Wednesday afternoon.

“It was life or death, so all I could do was believe in God,” Martinez said.

“There is nothing else left to do,” Lopez added.

Information is limited after the storm. They don’t hear from their employers, and news is brought to them by passers-by.

“For now, they said there was a project coming, so I’m thinking about staying here. So I’m hoping we can get some work done,” Martinez said.

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100122 Ian Folo Al 510 Javier Alan Lopez, 34, and Oriel Martinez Alvarado, 51, sit in the shade of one of the shrimp fishing boats on Friday, September 30, 2022. The same boat Wednesday afternoon when Hurricane Ian struck near the Trico Shrimp Company.

100122 Ian Folo Al 510 Javier Alan Lopez, 34, and Oriel Martinez Alvarado, 51, sit in the shade of one of the shrimp fishing boats on Friday, September 30, 2022. The same boat Wednesday afternoon when Hurricane Ian struck near the Trico Shrimp Company.

With limited transportation, you can’t leave even if you want to.

“I’d like to work at least on land,” Lopez said. “It doesn’t matter. We’ll be there if we can.”

Hannah Morse covers consumer issues for The Palm Beach Post. Call her at [email protected], call 561-820-4833 or follow her on her Twitter @mannahhorse.

This article originally appeared in the Fort Myers News-Press. During Hurricane Ian, Shrimp survived the storm on a boat.now they are left without a job

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