Six months after Ian, furniture store destroyed in storm reopens

In the early days after Hurricane Ian hit Southwest Florida, Andrew Boyle couldn’t get to his furniture store in Naples.

Boyle, 32, lives in Arcadia, DeSoto County, and, immediately after the storm, flooding kept him locked in at home. And then, when he was finally able to venture out, flooding kept him from returning to his house for four days.

As a business owner, in those first couple of days the stresses of dealing with the issues in and around home were compounded by the uncertainty surrounding the five Badcock Home Furniture & more stores he and his partners own in Southwest Florida. He was able to visit a couple of the locations of the Pok County-based chain before his home became unreachable, but he had to wait on news about the others. (The partners own 26 Badcock stores in all.)