By John Dempsey, WLS-AM News

(CHICAGO)  Hurricane Irma is causing a lot of worry for Chicagoans who own homes in Florida.   A lot of Chicagoans are snowbirds who own Florida properties, such as Jill Nolan of Chicago’s Bridgeport neighborhood, who tells the Chicago Tribune she has owned a vacation home near Fort Myers beach for five years, and was looking forward to spending her first entire winter there after recently retiring.

Now she is keeping a close eye on the weather reports and hoping she has a home to go to.   Bill Jerpe of Naperville tells the Tribune he lives in Fort Myers in the winter, and has been frantically calling the company that watches his property to get them to install hurricane shutters.    However there are a lot of other snowbirds making the same type of calls.

Also Graeme Jack, of Chicago tells the Tribune he and his father may actually drive down to their home in Naples Florida this weekend to install shutters themselves, and then try to drive back to Chicago.

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