Kathleen Passidomo is weathering the storms
When state Sen. Kathleen Passidomo first walked into her Naples home after Hurricane Ian, she was in a state of shock. That turned quickly into looking for what she could do: If she could just push the mud out, she thought. But then she saw the moisture in the walls, the furniture soaked by four feet of water. She opened her clothes drawers: more water. Drywall and furniture can be replaced – the real heartbreak was finding half of the collection of books she’d been gathering on floor-to-ceiling shelves over the past 50 years completely waterlogged.
“You go through stages of grief,” Passidomo explains. “Unless you’ve gone through something like this, you might be empathetic to others, but it...
