Communities "surrounded by water" prepare for storm surge, high tide in Citrus County

It’s a bitter irony. Aaron Hefty makes his living on the water. “Some of the best fishin’ in Ozello is out my back door,” said the charter boat captain who runs Hefty’s Ozello Adventures. But now, it’s the water threatening to injure his livelihood. He and roughly 600 other full-time residents live in Ozello, a remote chain of islands surrounded by the Gulf of Mexico in Citrus County. The community is particularly vulnerable as Idalia approaches because of its isolated geography.