Tiny kitten in Sarasota, Florida, is a Hurricane Ian survivor as shelter misses worst of storm

The Cat Depot shelter in Sarasota, Fla., named its four-day-old kitten "Cane" after the hurricane. The tiny animal survived the hurricane. (Ashley Soriano/Fox News)A small staff at an animal shelter in Sarasota, Florida, managed to take care of over 100 cats and a four-day-old kitten even amid the wrath of Hurricane Ian.

At Cat Depot in Sarasota, staff members hunkered down inside the shelter overnight as wind banged at their windows amid the hurricane.Some water did make its way inside the building.LIVE UPDATES: HURRICANE IAN CONTINUES TO CRAWL TOWARD CAROLINAS, VIRGINIA; OFFICIALS CONFIRM 10 STORM-RELATED DEATHS"[It was] dripping off … and then collecting it into the litter box at the bottom," said Ryan Simonson, manager of the shelter's care and facilities. "All of this was just, ‘Collect and then mop, collect and then mop' — just standing in here and coming by about every 10 minutes," he added.Forecasters originally predicted Hurricane Ian would hit slightly more north than it did, along the Gulf Coast.Instead, it hit cities like Naples and Fort Myers the hardest, destroying homes and cars.The cities of Sarasota and, even more north of that, Tampa were just shy of the direct path, but even those cities suffered some damage.Shelters like Cat Depot are vulnerable when it comes to the ability to evacuate a lot of animals quickly.Ryan Simonson tends to one of the animals at Cat Depot, a nonprofit shelter in Sarasota, Florida.

He and the rest of the staff stayed overnight to care for the animals during Hurricane Ian.  (Ashley Soriano/Fox News)"We have a steel roof, which is great for survivability, but not great for acoustics, so the cats experienced a lot of loud noises," Simonson said. "We provided them with hiding.