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How did Tropical Storm Debby affect Naples, Fort Myers, Southwest Florida area?

Before strengthening to a Category 1 hurricane late Sunday night, and making landfall near Steinhatchee, Tropical Storm Debby spent a sloppy weekend soaking Southwest Florida, closing roads, canceling events, pushing into waterfront buildings and washing out recovering dunes.For a region still battling back after the devastation of Hurricane Ian, it was an unwelcome dose of PTSD, as reopened businesses found themselves once again in storm mode, with the storm’s strongest rains coming right at high tide.Winds in Southwest Florida got gusty, but well below hurricane strength of 74 mph.In Lee County, speeds ranged from a high of 55 mph at Cape Coral’s Tarpon Point to 46 mph at Page Field in Fort Myers, dropping to the low 20s inland. Lehigh Acres clocked 20 mph, Ruskin-based National Weather Service meteorologist Matt Anderson said. Collier’s wind gusts ranged from 57 mph in Naples and 50 in Ochopee in the Everglades to 39 in the county’s emergency operations center, Miami-based National…