Snyder said her parents were prepared, but the storm was one of the biggest they've seen since moving to Florida about 10 years ago from Nashua, New Hampshire. Ian had been reduced to a tropical storm by Thursday morning, but it regained hurricane strength as it headed toward South Carolina Thursday night. The storm made landfall Wednesday in southwest Florida and forecasters were still warning of destructive flooding Thursday. Snyder's parents, Chris and Priscilla Flanagan, are among the millions of Floridians hit by the hurricane, which has inflicted widespread damage and power outages. "But it's still tough to not be able to call my mom to talk to her and know how things are going down there."
"I feel better now," Snyder, a visiting associate professor of psychology at Bates, said in a phone interview Thursday after finally getting a text from her mom, who used a neighbor's phone to let her daughter know they were OK despite the lack of cell service. It had been several hours since the Lewiston resident had heard from her parents as they weathered the winds and rain of Hurricane Ian along Florida's Gulf Coast. class at Bates College on Thursday morning. 29-Kate Snyder was feeling stressed as she started teaching her 8 a.m.
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