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'Nothing's left': Hurricane Ian leaves emotional toll behind

Joe Kuczko puts up a tarp next to his mobile home, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2022, in Pine Island, Fla., in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian. [AP]

With her home gone and all her belongings trashed by Hurricane Ian, Alice Pujols wept as she picked through soggy clothes, toys and overturned furniture piled head-high outside a stranger's house, looking to salvage something - anything - for her four children and herself.

"I'm trying to make it to the next day," she said. "That's all I can do. It's really depressing. It really is."

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