FORT MYERS BEACH, Fla. – If you’ve spent a day on Fort Myers Beach, you’ve probably seen the crew that pushes the ice cream carts up and down the coast. 

They work for a corporation referred to as Pedals Ice Cream. 

“We used to pedal the bike, but we push it now,” mentioned David Rosenzweig, proprietor of the corporate. 

You can often hear them earlier than you see them. Their bells and boisterous voices are louder than the waves crashing alongside the shore. 

They have been worn out by Hurricane Ian, which destroyed their freezers, ice cream and all however considered one of their carts. Despite all that, their plan is to rebuild and be again on the seaside. 

“Ice cold water, bananas, ice cream,” yelled Rosenzweig. “Grandma just made some meatloaf-flavored ice cream that’s got real meatloaf in it. But that was just a joke of course, and they laugh.”

When NBC2 interviewed him, Rosenzweig was standing in his destroyed and now gutted store alongside San Carlos Boulevard on San Carlos Island. 

It’s not the candy treats that maintain him going, however fairly the grins and the younger faces that lit up like a Christmas tree once they noticed him coming. 

“Mom! Mom! Look! The ice cream man’s coming,” he mentioned. “I love it. It’s great.”

Rosenzweig has been engaged on the sand promoting ice cream for 42 years. His enterprise grew from only one cart by himself to 5 carts and a handful of workers. 

“It’s part of me now. It’s all I know.”

It is likely to be the sensation of constructing a younger little one’s day, or perhaps their customized ice cream name, however there’s one thing infectious about it. 

“Ice cream! Popsicles! Sno-cones,” yelled Manager William Dalbora. “It’s something to see the kids come running, yelling, ‘Mommy! Mommy! Here comes the ice cream man!’”

Dalbora has been the supervisor for years, however now, he’s out of a job. 

“My income is challenged, and I’m working other jobs now to make ends meet,” he mentioned. 

Hurricane Ian’s storm surge flooded their store with six toes of water, leaving them with nothing.

“We’re cleaning it up and starting over,” Rosenzweig mentioned. 

Even after 4 many years within the enterprise, David, now 65, isn’t able to throw within the towel. After all, he tells NBC2’s Gage Goulding that he’s the one one with a allow to promote on the seaside. 

“I’m doing what I can to survive it. I want it to last,” he mentioned. 

While it is likely to be a yr or two till his ice cream crew is again alongside the coast, as soon as that seaside is again open, you may guess your backside greenback they’ll be there with bells on.