MIAMI — It took 51 years of pleading — “We need a navigational aid” — to get a lighthouse built on Sanibel. That was 138 years ago. But in 1884, a 104-foot-high iron lighthouse rose above the waters on the Gulf Coast, and 90 years later, in 1974, the lighthouse and its quarters made it into the National Register of Historic Places. Then came Sept. 28, 2022. How long will it take until the damage from Hurricane Ian can be repaired so that the lighthouse stands on all its legs again? That could take awhile, experts say. The lighthouse survived the storm surge and winds, The Weather Channel and o…