Saltwater or salt in the air. After Ian, I don’t think there was a green leaf on Sanibel, and you could see homes you never knew were there. But two years later, prior to Helene and Milton, vegetation was back to normal. Some deciduous trees have lost their leaves now, and shrubs look bad, but most of the trees should recover–strangler figs are already re-leafing. Plenty of monetary damage, though well away from the eye and with no more than 22 inches of water, including four totaled cars just in the seven homes (three still unoccupied after Ian) on our end of the street. Much worse further north, of course.