Riding Out Hurricane Ian | Cape Coral Florida
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2022
- This was our experience during the eye of Hurricane Ian at the height of the flooding. The wind blew from about 11:30am to past midnight. The flooding occurred between 2:30 and 6:30 and did not completely subside for two days.
We were incredibly lucky.  Not everyone was as lucky. Please pray for the families less fortunate.
Our close neighbors had left so we knew we didn’t need to check on them. There were no reported injuries in our area.
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Going to visit the ocean is awesome. Having the ocean come visit you, not so much.
Thoughts and prayers for all those affected by this horrific storm.
@@lavenderlove1212 The Gulf is part of the Atlantic ocean,
@@Tom-zs6bb I know that!🙄
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To say you guys got lucky is an UNDERSTATEMENT!!! The houses across the street don't look to be so fortunate 😢 My friends house was destroyed by flood waters 😭 I'm happy the water didn't enter your house and you were all safe. Thank you for sharing 💓
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I’m a Property Inspector in the UK & your coverage is really informative. I’m glad your property has come through it without any structural damage nor water inside. My friends in Daytona Beach had 3’ water through their house & everything ruined with foul water! Thankfully everyone I know & yourself have survived. We are hearing of tragic loss of life.
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Mother Nature is a BEAST at times. Glad to see you guys were not harmed other than some damage to your place. God Bless everyone in Florida. Thanks for the video, Bobby.
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God willing my friend
I'm 100% sure, you're a meat eater.
The real beasts are humans. Humans are bringing hundreds of endangered specie to extinction every and destroying the planet with pollutions and garbage absolutely disgusting. Time for government to limite the number of kids humans have. Mother Nature probably had enough of humanity by now.
I am glad you all are safe 🙏 ❤
Always wondered why these fixed generators werent elevated. Good example of how useless it is in the event of a flood. Hope you're doing alright
Exactly. I haven't gotten one yet but i discussed this with a company that came out yrs ago to give us an estiate and he just looked at me like I was nuts.🤔
Make strong houses againts hurricanes. Like yours looks like it.
Need floating house and floating generator.
I'm just a stupid girl and even when I see it I'm like what good is that there?? lol scary
Since it’s already installed you could as a last resort use Quick Dam products to build up a temporary wall around it, maybe lay down a double wall then as a just in case put a small sump pump next to it with the cord running into a nearby cracked window to plug in/cut on as needed to pump out any water that might still build up from rain and leakage.
I rode it out here in Cape Coral too, as I had hurricane Irma. The storm surge came right up to my home before it stopped rising. The power went out just after 4:00 pm, and was out for over a week, just came back on Friday morning at 9:20, and I got internet back about an hour ago. I lost nothing in this storm, and I know others who lost everything. I cooked and made coffee for my neighbors on a propane camp stove for a week, and a great neighbor got us generator power until LCEC got the power back on. God help all those who were not so lucky as me and my neighbors here.
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Wow. That water was so close to coming in. Had to be stressful to see this hurricane start to finish. Some crazy footage. Hope you and your family stay safe and can recover ASAP from this. So many people with homes totally destroyed.
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I admire how calm you all remained
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@@bobbygfl We live near the Yacht Club area of Cape Coral and had the very same experiences like yourselves as you so vividly show in your great video. In our case, the storm surge stopped just short of the level of the house floor, 5 inches to be exact. The garage was flooded with 1 inch of water though, no big deal. However, we lost a wooden fence and most of our surrounding bushes and trees, avocado and starfruit, plus one big old Royal Palm tree that came crashing down with the wind and missed our car by about 3 feet. Aggravating, but not critical of course, was the extended loss of electricity which spoilt a lot of good food in the fridge and separate freezer. Luckily, we were able to do some cooking by using an old propane camping stove. Can't do without your morning coffee! Our love and sympathy to all our fellow residents who were not as fortunate as us.
Not sure how he did. I'm in NW Cape, and we got the fuck out of there. Our whole yard got ripped to shreds but we have all our infrastructure (power, clean water, internet) back. Our soffet is badly damaged though and I don't know if that will cause structural damage as it has rained since. Anxiously waiting for the moisture test tomorrow morning
Our prayers go out to all the families Here in Cape Coral and Ft Myers. Stay strong!
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Prayers for you and all who are affected ... Thank you for such great coverage.
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My friend in North Fort Meyers rode out the hurricane in his trailor with his elderly parents, and they suffered no damage. Their neighbor have a tree fallen on his trailor, but not destroyed it yet. That trailor park survived intact while the one down the street was leveled to the ground. It is amazing what weather can do at times.
Your friend just got lucky!
Hurricanes have Tornadoes in them.thats why you see a lot of random damage.
Your friend's elderly parents trailer park obviously had God's protection and blessings upon it. 🙏 "...For with God, all things are possible." Matthew 19:26 (KJV) ✝️
Lucky your friend stayed north and not south 😅
Where in north ft myers? I moved 6 months ago from NE Cape right over the line from North ft myers. I’ve been worried sick about all those trailer parks! Thank God your friend is ok. This is devastating. I am in Myrtle Beach SC now & we were worried but God spared us. My fam is down in Cape & NFM… uncle didn’t get so lucky & his house is destroyed.
@5:55 the ultimate sign for a "maybe I should move?" moment.. a moving dolly, washing up on the front door while Ian causes carnage all around. I have roughed a hurricane or two in FL so glad you and yours are safe, be well.
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I understand your thinking of remaining behind in a evacuation zone. Just remember had something happened that you need to call 911 you would be "that guy". Glad you and your family are safe. 🙏
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You guys are lucky that your property is at a higher elevation. Stay safe!
Idk. He has canal right there. Don’t think he’s at any high elevation
@@MrMknowles44 you can build your house up. Alot of people in Florida especially those living on a canal will build their property up several feet.
@@JessicaLister899 it's code requirement now. My buddy is building a house down there and has to raise his lot up 8ft
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Wow, what amazing footage you captured. I’m glad you’re all safe!
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I gotta say if I ever have to be in a hurricane I would certainly want to be with your group. Y’all look so chill
Being in a hurricane is like going the fastest you have ever gone in a car with the windows down, only doing it in your house.
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I don't put my group in danger in the first place. We live in Florida, originally Ian's path was quite literally bullseye over the top of our house. We have insurance and SRQ airport minutes away. We're visiting with our family up north along with our 75# Australian Shepherd.
@@DJaquithFL ...you are smart ✌🏽
I wouldn’t wanna be in the same room with this guy for 10 seconds- he can clearly see the gravity of the damage- and he’s almost gloating about how well his property held up - who gives a sh-t about your magnolias- Not one mention about hoping people are ok or how thankful he is that his family is safe. There’s a big difference between chill and insensitive.
Thank you for sharing your families experience in Hurricane Ian. Whether on the clean side or the dirty side of the Hurricane and the right side is always the dirty side. That being said being in the eye of the Hurricane is nothing to sneeze at. It was a serious Hurricane that your kids can tell their kids and you can tell your grandkids in later years! It's amazing the power of a Hurricane now the second round of Ian is the flooding and many of the folks got caught in again. Sadly people in mobile homes got hit extremely hard as well as many one story houses. I think raising the A/C and Generators on to more concrete block may be a good thing to consider. Theres the chance that you will never deal with a Hurricane again and we hope not!!! But living in Florida is part of life when we were living in the Keys Hurricane Wilma was a major hurricane in 2005, wind and flooding but that is expected in the Keys due to the location of the Keys. We evacuated due to flooding and damage to cars was the norm. Again thank you for sharing your families experience during Hurricane Ian that will go down in the history books as the most catastrophic Hurricane in Florida history, for now!!! God Bless you and your family and all that were in the path that lost all their stuff. And sadly those that lost their life in the Hurricane!!!
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Prayers for beautiful Florida and people! Stay safe!
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I am so sorry for those impacted by Ian and most especially those who lost loved ones! 💔
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I need to learn how to maintain how calm you all are while almost having your home flooded. I also live in Cape Coral & I was a nervous reck for 2 days even after the storm was over. You all bring a sense of peace ♥️
Carissa you can definitely learn these people read books and concentrate on WHT they are reading is a way of staying calm.
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@@bobbygfl I love the life jacket on the dog. I had one for my 5 pound Maltese also. 😁
As a survivor of Ian, I can’t explain how you deal with and accept the mayhem. Somehow, you manage and everyone has their own story. 😊
Thank you for sharing. I am glad you guys survived. God bless you and the family , and I keep you in my prayers for fast recovery.
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I stayed on Matlacha, sad that most or all is gone
It was a Beautiful Island and I hope and pray all made it out safely
My favorite 😢 I drove thru there on nights when I couldn’t sleep just bc it had a beautiful, peaceful vibe. 💔💔💔
You're fortunate to be alive to talk about it.
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I live in Port Charlotte. I will never forget the sound of the wind. Never
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My folks live off of NW 20thTerrace. 80 year old Dad prepped for this two week advance even adding extra metal to the garage doors and strips of wood in the Window covers so sound is less loud it stopped to banging. My nephew drove down from Kansas and is on the Roof fixing the New roof that was put on a week before Ian Much Love Great footage
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You were smart to have the house constructed on higher ground. It costs more to have the ground built up before construction, but definitely worth it.
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Your house is beautiful. I can't even imagine these beautiful houses totally gone. Prayers for all of you from Worcester Mass.
My cousins live in Cape Coral. Paul, Kathy and Rod Morgan. Don't know ow if they are your neighbors. Be safe all of you.
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Could not imagine you and family riding this thing out. Glad you all are safe 👍Prayers for all affected 🙏
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Thank you so much for this video - I also live in Cape Coral and our beloved city isn’t getting much media coverage ever though we were devastated by Hurricane Ian!!!
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Sir, thank you for sharing this. Please remember next time that it isn’t the wind itself to fear when you are outside. It’s WHAT the wind is blowing! You can be killed by a flying Stop sign. Better to stay indoors and be safer.
It is ridiculous that allegedly intelligent people have to be told this.
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You seem to have been relatively fortunate. Hoping you all are Ok.
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Good thing your house was a tad higher. You still got a lot of water, but thank goodness it didn’t get inside. Glad you guys are all okay.
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You all handled it very well and did a great job documenting everything! Prayers to everyone affected. We are in central FL and it was our first hurricane- it was scary but we had minor damage from the strong winds.
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Glad you guys are safe and thank you for the great coverage🤙
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It looks like they did real good it’s always a gamble to stay or go some people cants afford to leave and/or have no where to go
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dude you sound so chill after the storm 😂
i’d be like freaking out
Thanks! I think the more crazy stuff gets the calmer I get lol
Thank you for the coverage, glad you and your family are safe as well as your beautiful home! Prayers to all those affected :-(
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My goodness, you went through a terrible ordeal and uncertainty. We are very glad you and your dear family are safe and were somehow divinely protected💗💗💗
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I hope everyone affected by Ian will have their lives back to normal soon. I feel so terrible to see the damage done to the homes and everything that they've worked so hard for. God bless you all
*Is it the same gawd that lat the hurricane happened in the first place!* 🙄
@@vicgodsucks1157 nahhhh… darn humans not taking care of what God gave us on Earth…
@@niknatpattywack4293 *Your all powerful sky daddy doesn't exist!!* 🤪🤪
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Glad your family is ok,love from Scotland.😍😍
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OMG!!! Bless you all.. ❤🙏
Greetings from Finland ❤
Yes, God watched over our entire State of Florida..thank you Whiteshadow . May God continue to watch over you too! Love to you in Finland. 🇫🇮
@@carvinlambert6899 Beautiful thank you! Can't quite find the words! I am praying for you and asking the angels to help you through this disaster!
Yes, everything will still be alright!!
Light and love to you and your family from Finland!!
With loving regards ❤️🙏
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That flowing water looks wicked. It’s good that you and your family are safe. Thanks for sharing.🙏🙏🙏
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Thank-you for sharing this. It's hard to imagine the reality of living through a storm, news feeds are not helpful, just hypeful.
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Thank you for sharing this footage and I'm glad you and your family survived this!
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You're very fortunate to have not flooded or suffered any real damage. I hope you're opening up your house to help those less fortunate than you.
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It just seemed like it would never stop didn’t it?! Glad you and your family are safe! Thanks for the footage!
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Love your GSP's! I lived through Ivan in '03 while in the Cayman Islands. My GSP, Tessie Tomas (RIP), was traumatized for months afterward. I think all the stuff on the ground that shouldn't have been there and the smell of all the dead birds, animals and foliage made a profoundly negative, lasting mark on her. We went out by bicycle the day after Ivan passed through. Total devastation, just like what is being experienced in Ft. Myers, Cape Coral, Sanibel, etc. now. I saw the flat tail on your boy at 16:00.
It was a million dollar experience I wouldn't have paid a nickel for. Best wishes to you , your family, your property and YOUR DOGS!!
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Wow!! I don't like flooding, too scary. I'm in NW Cape Coral on a canal and luckily didn't get any flooding. The wind was horrendous though and took about half of my roof shingles, my vinyl fencing torn down, 1 big palm tree uprooted, and my lanai torn down and in the swimming pool. All nothing compared to what other's have lost. 🙏🏻😇♥️😢
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That view from the front door is insanely scary , what a site
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Beautiful home..think of those who have nothing left not even a roof food or water.
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Thanks for the upload 😮 the best docu about that whole thing
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Thank you for sharing keeping use all in my prayers. 😘💜🙏
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What's the elevation of your home? That was a close call. So glad you all are safe.
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I would have been so 😨 😟 worried! You'all were pretty calm. Your house is just beautiful, and I hope you didn't get alot of damage. Good luck to everyone & I will surely add you to my prayers.🙏🙏 Sunny days are ahead.🍊🌷🏊🏄🍺
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Glad you guys made it through, we're in se cape off of 13th terrace, canal came up about 5 to 6 feet lot off tree damage and roof damage here...winds were extreme after the eye passed, crazy times, but I love my Florida
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Thanks for coverage. Amazing your family and your were calm and smart while weathering the storm. Also you were able to check out your neighbor's homes. You have a beautiful home. Good luck thanks.
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I’m so glad you guys and your beautiful house is ok. You got very lucky 🍀
Hello 👋 how are you doing?
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Great video. Y'all were so fortunate that you didnt get 6-8 ft surge as was predicted in some places.
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Thank God you made it through. Thanks for sharing. Hopefully everything is okay with your house once the water recedes
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Thnx for the tour! Glad your family and pets are ok!! We stayed in our house here in Venice, min damage took in some water in a guest bedroom closet, some soffit/facia damage n trees uprooted in many places!!
New tile roof in April paid off!! Stay well!!🥹
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I hope everyone is ok and didn’t get hurt 😔 good luck everyone out there🙏😇
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Great video with a shitty situation 😢 I feel silly for getting upset over the last couple days because I lost power for a day and a half here in North Carolina..My ❤ goes out to you guys & gals.. Now the dogs in the video, did make me smile.. not gonna lie ❤️ I hope a speedy recover for all who was affected by this storm.. especially in Florida. ❤️
Definitely, we lost power for a week and a day here and we still have to use boiling water or bottled water. At a Wal-Mart in Del Prado a crazy lady was fighting over ice and another Cuban one was yelling saying that this Wal-Mart wasn't giving anything for free...I was about to put her in her place: Do you think this is communist Cuba?? But I preferred to keep the peace and let God handle that one.
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Very scary! Glad you’re all ok. Thanks for sharing.
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Great coverage - thanks for posting! 😃
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It’s videos like these that are up and personal that help us here in the NorthWest realize how devastating that hurricane was. I was in Ft Meyer Beach 10 months ago and to see everywhere I went to eat and have fun just Gone! blows my mind. I’m glad you and your family stayed safe.
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I hope you, your family and your home are doing 🙏 much better than
the day you skillfully filmed your raw footage of Hurricane Ian's wrath from inside and outside your beautiful home 🏡 I will be thinking about you guys as you go through the process of clean up but very happy to see that you and your family's Spirit was uplifting under such horrific circumstances! Please stay safe and Thanks for sharing your story with us 😊
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Thank you for showing this. I have family in Cape Coral near Burnt Store Gulf Stream Pkwy on end camel. Have not heard from them. 😢
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You Did Very Well considering the Massive Damage Done by Ian. I live in the pacific NW inland had a wind storm that took out over 75 big pine trees on my Property. It took two chainsaws 5 hours to get my 70 foot long driveway clear. Now 2022 I still have a handful of trees to cut and slash piles to break down and burn in my woodstove. Lot work for Free heat in the winter.
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I live in Monterey, California. I just want to say THANK YOU for taking the time to very calmly and thoroughly do this video. This video is very helpful to us living near the ocean and to realize what could happen to us as well. Although, we don't have hurricanes, I am going to get sandbags just for peace of mind, elevate my generator and be more prepared. I live a block from the beach. Climate change is upon us and it is best to be prepared like you. Also, it seems you have experienced hurricanes before and are very prepared! You are lucky, thanks again for the insight of this disaster of a lifetime. God Bless.
If you elevate your generator you should elevate your HVAC system at the same time. Good planning ahead.
We're experiencing 'climate change' in Iowa now; It was summer up until a couple weeks ago and now the climate is changing into Autumn. Soon, our climate will change once again...to Winter! How About That? Who Knew?!
No more, major hurricanes now than the past 100 years. Climate change? But very nice comments.. I like how you mentioned the lessons you caught from the video. That’s important. Floridians thank you…
Hey I live in Monterey and grew up in Louisiana and spent a lot of time in Florida. The only time I felt scared during a hurricane was Andrew in S. Florida, the wind was so strong I thought the roof would come off my apt building. I fortunately missed Katrina although had to go back for a couple funerals.
@@RRRIBEYE Looks like somebody doesn't know how science works. Might wanna check into that before making yourself look even more stupid.
Not the Porsche! 😀 Glad to see you guys rode it out safely.
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Love the silver octopus! Glad you’re ok. Hope your house dries out ok ❤️
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Best video I saw of this.Thank you
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Horrifying. I would be in panic mode, but glad you and your loved ones survived!
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Hoping you all are doing okay with the least amount of damage available. Hoping and praying for safety and restoration for all the residents of Florida and South Carolina.
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Blimey. Prayers to everyone. Thank you for your footage, very calm and brave of you. Might keep my generator up in the loft now. X
Hope you are all okay x and your home is okay x. Just makes me think to prep a bit just in case too. Sounds inadequate right now but maybe we should be resetting plugs up close to ceiling, with power sources and generators up high too instead of floor level x Prayers to everyone x
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Thank you for the report.
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@@bobbygflwould you elevate the generator for next time….and there will be a next time. Could you use generator for a few things in your house while water is rising? I don’t know abt safety
Talk about being the envy of the block! Anyway, glad you guys are safe. Prayers for everyone 🙏❤️
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Great footage & all day perspective.. Not great what happened to your neighborhood. The poor dogs didn’t know what the heck was going on.
Getting the baby version in the Northeast this weekend.
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Thank you. I stayed in Cape Coral for six months a couple years ago near Publix on DelPrado. Friends got 2ft of water in house. Hope u r all fine and making good progress. Prayers from AR.
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I have so many memories, not stalking, hope you all fare well and know you are being protected. I live in Tn. since 2004 just after Charlie
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I feel for all of you south of us. I am in Plant City In eastern Hillsborough Co. We just got wind damage unless you live near one of the rivers like the Alafia river. That is causing severe flooding among many other inlet rivers in central Florida.. Being a life long Floridian, I can say that this one will go in the record books. One day at a time. Thanks for sharing all of this with us neighbor.
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Wow, thanks for posting! Helps us to understand. You have a beautiful home! Glad you made it through.
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Thanks for sharing! We have friends that live in Cape Coral and have not heard from them so this makes me feel better. Your home is beautiful 😍
Hello how are you doing?
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Good footage. To put the storm surge into even more context, I'm in Labelle, about 30 miles up river from you all and my dock was about 4 feet underwater. Ian was a strong one for sure.
Wow! I can’t imagine
You have a very beautiful home, hope all is well with your family and repairs are swift.
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That water was a bit too close. So glad your house (friends and family too!) survived and fared pretty well compared to others. I hope your neighbors came out ok too. It's gut wrenching to see the footage of the intense flooding and severe devastation that has taken place over there. Btw, no one was in the red car across the street, right? At one point it looked like the lights were on and I thought "oh please tell me there's no one in that car who needs help getting out!"
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I would be afraid walking around after a hurricane. Who knows if alligators or snakes washed up onto your property?!😳
Where do you live? Snakes and others are here everyday without a hurricane.
@@Tampa0123456789 I live in AZ. I realize snakes and others are around every day. But my thought was with all of that water washed up to the front of the house who knows what came with it. I sure wouldn't be out there barefoot. But that's just me.
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Wild, amazing footage. Well prepared
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Prayers for everyone.
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Looks like y’all got very lucky 👍
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I almost moved to Cape Coral a couple of years ago.
It is a nice area with lots of canals. maybe after they get this flooding out of its system it will be safe for another hundred years.
Hurricane season has another month left. Plus the ocean is rising. Most of Florida is going to be underwater in a couple hundred years.
Youre never safe in a hurricane prone area. Not a matter of IF, but when your home is destroyed
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I live in Cape Coral. Too. And wow it was awful first time in 42 years my street flooded but at least it never made it to the house
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Super happy you and your family made it without any physical injures
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Witch part of Cape Coral is this? You are lucky you did not get more water . I am on the north east. We were without power until Monday. Thank goodness for generators and batteries for fans.
Yacht club area
this is how you build a house! looks safe
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Love the Thunder shirt on your dog. They are so good.
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Thank you for sharing. All the best for you! Good luck and wishes from Switzerland. We had a home in Nepals (1997-2005) so I’m quite shocked 😢😢😢
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Looks like your property made it thru much better than so many others.
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So glad you made it through…this was amazing! We are supposed to be in Cape Coral in March…VRBO on Bayshore Dr. We haven’t heard if it came through okay or not. Many prayers for all of you.
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Your house looks nice and new and much more elevated than most in this area. It was complete devastation in our area. Thanks for the video! Oh yeah and those impact windows really help muffle the noise, was much quieter than my house!
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Hello from Pennsylvania! Glad you and your family is safe
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