Store to shelter

At Detwiler's Farm Market on University Parkway and Lockwood Ridge Road in Sarasota County, workers salvaged produce and other food by stuffing it into refrigerated trucks cooled by generators parked in back of the store in advance of Hurricane Irma.

The store, one of three owned and operated by the Detwiler family in the county, closed Friday at 8 p.m., and reopened Tuesday, Sept. 12 at 8 a.m.

To prepare for the storm, staff boarded up the 6100 N. Lockwood Ridge Road storefront, and employees and their families -- together with several Detwilers — rode out the hurricane inside, in a makeshift shelter. In all, more than 100 people shared the space inside the Parkway Collection Shopping Center.