Babcock Ranch calls itself 'America's first solar-powered town.' The streets in this meticulously planned neighbourhood are designed to flood so houses don't, and power and internet lines are buried to avoid wind damage. While Hurricane Ian obliterated the nearby Fort Myers and Naples areas, knocking out power to more than 2.6 million customers in Florida, the lights stayed on in Babcock Ranch.
— and its first residents moved into the town in 2018. Since then, the array has doubled in size and thousands of people have made Babcock their home.
"Throughout all this, there's just so many people saying, 'it worked, that this was the vision, this is the reason we moved here,'" Hall told CNN. "They're going to be renting a place over here for a while, while they figure out what's going to happen out there," she said. "I joked that we may be the only people in southwest Florida whose property value just increased."
"He was there during the storm; he said, 'where else would I be?'" Hall said. "We built it to be resilient and as much as you plan and think you've done the right thing, you don't know until you put it to the test."
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