Hurricane Ian - Cape Coral Canal Tour
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- Опубліковано 22 жов 2022
- Touring SW Cape Coral canals to view the devastation from Hurricane Ian. No canal, river or lake was spared. Everywhere we looked we saw sunk boats, capsized boats, large yachts blown up on land and destruction. Made us realize there are many far worse off than we were. We also toured Tarpon Point marina near the Nauti Mermaid and surrounding bays. Stay strong Florida.
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Glad y’all are safe, boats can be replaced.
Wow, so much devastation. But I was pleasantly surprised to see most of the houses appeared to have come through IAN in decent shape -- windows intact and minimal if any roof damage. But the way boats -- including big yachts -- were tossed around is astonishing. Capricious -- some boats wreckied, some boats look intact. Thanks for tour -- really interesting and sobering.
Ty for the video,, hope the community is recovering. Thousands of animals were displaced too. That turtle swimming in the water was a land turtle. A local tortoise that was desperate to get to shore. Hopefully he made it.
Heartbreaking to see all the loss and destruction so many suffered! So sorry for what you are going through!
What’s scary about this video is not the boat damage! It’s the damage you can’t see in this video that’s actually the scariest and most heartbreaking thing of all. Most of the houses on that canal look fine from the outside. However, on the inside many of those homes were completely gutted out by that storm surge. It’s actually all those severely damaged homes that look fine on the outside, but are a total wreck on the inside that is the scariest thing of all.
The video looks like a montage or edit of several short videos put together or pause. In any case there's much more than just ONE canal.....the video shows many canals.....that's the scary part. Cape Coral has over 400 miles of Canals and is widely known to have the most canals of ANY city in the world and that includes Venice, Italy.
The images are beyond words. Its almost hard to believe what you all just went thru considering its such a beautiful day that your recording this video.
Your dog is beautiful
Were on fmb and had rebuilt after hurricane Charlie with the fema mandated raise of elevation and still had five foot of water in the house. Our boat ended up wedged between two houses almost three-quarters of a mile away. Luckily we were covered by insurance and while lower than imo the proper amount we are rebuilding and wondering what we're going to do to get back on the water. We watched your n.y. to the cape series and leaning that way to come off of lake Michigan in the spring. Thank you look forward to more adventures
wow...thanks for showing the conditions there....thumbs up from Lake George, NY
I came across your video while researching how to get our boat off someone else’s sea wall. ours is just a bow rider but we had years of fun with it. This has certainly put things in perspective for me. Thanks for sharing.
TowBoat US can certainly handle yours. They have cranes on barges pulling boats.
Hard to see all the damage. There’s been a lot of damage but things are looking much better. Everyone is fixing and moving forward. Cape Strong. ❤
This large boat was put back in water and floating at the dock now.
Over the past several years I’ve took my beautiful 52 sport fish Hatteras with a tower along with my 4 boys from Mystic, Connecticut to Palm Beach, Florida. Memories I’ll never forget. For the first couple of trips we would run from Mystic to Atlantic City, NJ. After filling up then to Norfolk, Virginia. Then to Beaufort, SC. via ICW. Interesting travel but between shallow waters, logs
and people yelling at you I never wanted to take the trip again. If you don’t know what your doing regarding navigation your in trouble. One time this large yacht passed us really going fast maybe 25 or more knots. A few minutes later he’s yelling at us to pull him off a sandbar. He was really stuck. We continued after suggesting he call Seatow for assistance. On our return trip to Mystic we met another Captian who suggested to stay out side the Hatteras’s and avoid the inter coastal to Norfolk. He asked me my fuel capacity (about 1,200 gallons) which is sufficient and to check the weather. Well the next morning we headed out to the Atlantic towards Cape Hatteras the “grave yard of the Atlantic”. We had a great run and an interesting trip. There’s one marker that from a distance has the shape of a horse. The sea was okay and had an interesting time and ran up to just south of the Chesapeake Bay. That’s the end of my story about us avoiding the ICW when ever possible. Gerald P. Rothman Captian Manchester, Connecticut
Very interesting video. I moved from Cape Coral about 2 years ago. I was able to see the back of my old home, and several of my neighbors homes and the damage they've experienced. I had two boats, a 33' sailboat at the dock and a 19' dual console on a lift. I can only image the damage I would have seen had I still lived there. I was difficult to see my neighbor's boat (Heartbeat). He loved that boat and was out there cleaning and polishing it all the time.
What model boat is Heartbeat?
Thanks for sharing!
Great video so sorry to see so many boats displaced.
Thanks for the tour - shame to see all that marine damage, blasted storm surge.
thanks for the video
Such Devastation!... It will be back. We need a video of Happy Hour going up the Caloosahatchee toward Ft. Myers. The 2 Miserable Miles during a Weekend "Rush Hour"... That would be a fun video!
We can’t wait to be back on the water with her. We are planning a trip that way back to the Boathouse restaurant in Fort Myers in a month or so.
thanks for the real report
Mindblowing... mind numbing.
thank you for the videos. I also saw you took some water damage, sorry about that. We only had water in the garage, but many friends were like you and had to gut their houses from water inside. I did see some friend's houses and boats in your video and many looked okay. So here is the bad news. You missed a chance to be a savior for that tortoise, if it were a turtle it would have swam away. That was a tortoise like the ones at cabbage key (the smaller ones not the big named ones) you could have picked it up and put it back on land to save it :(
We had a family Christmas vacation planned there this year. We were so excited but those plans have changed. What a terrible tragedy.
My re and more places opening every day. Fort myers will take time but most of Cape Coral is open except for some places right on waterfront.
My heart goes out to you guys. I cannot know what you felt when you noticed your boat was not where you left her and then to see her across the channel in someone’s yard. I’m praying that all goes well with recovery with minimal damage. I’ve really enjoyed your videos of your travels.
Thanks so much!
Painful to see. I feel so bad for all these people. A hard task ahead for a lot of people. 😢
Wow I see the damage on out side boats and docks , some smaller vessels can be lifted up slowly with high volume water pump and air bags the bigger vessels need cranes. I like to see damage on inside houses if allowed to show us.
Wow. Cape Coral very pretty
It is, indeed. I've been living there for 22 years now. Wouldn't want to be anywhere else💖
What a shame! Best wishes to you!
That is around our house, that I was at. I 'bugged' out to Miami, then caught a flight out 4 days after Ian. My dog and I couldn't hang with no power, water or cell service.
Our house was ruined except the exterior walls and the roof we just had replaced.
I don't know how they are going to get barges with cranes through some of those canals, to get some of those boats "free".
Thanks.
My son did that stuff. Craine barges. Selvaging. All kinds of stuff. “ Morgan Marin’s “ panhandles. Traveled. But now the young lad works cell towers. .
Tarpon Point Marina is heavily damaged. I remember Tarpon Point before the buildings. It was just a gas station. You had to head over there early in the morning otherwise they ran out of gas. I was there last July renovating my condo at Cape Harbour. The Marina there is badly damaged too. That one is owned by Safe Harbour, one of the best managed Marina company's in the US. From the 13th floor of my condo tower at Cape Harbour, I could see all of SW Cape Coral, Fort Myers, the Caloosahatchee river estuary, Fort Myers beach (with binoculars of course) and part of Sanibel Island and the Causeway and out to the Gulf of Mexico. It's so sad to see all the devastation. From a drone video the images must be crazy. It looks like Montreal in late November after all the leaves have fallen and there are no more flowers. Just brown everywhere. The positive is that because there's so much sun and warmth even in winter that the foliage will grow back....fast. See you in mid November Cape Coral, I miss you. I've been going to Cape Coral since 1996 after one of my best friend's moved from Montreal there. I fell in love with that whole boaters paradise city theme; over 400 miles of canals and more than any other city in the world including Venice, Italy; London, England and Amsterdam. In fact probably all three combined. If you exit Cape Coral by boat and head west to open water and then point your compass south, you reach Key West in a few hours; keep going south and you reach Cuba. If you go west-south-west you miss Cuba and end up at the tip of the Yucatan peninsula, Mexico not far from Cancun. If you head around Cape Coral in to the the Caloosahatchee River and head north through Fort Myers you reach the Lake O canal that brings you to the other side of Florida so you can reach the Bahamas sooner than by going around the Keys. I stayed at my friend's house and eventually when he had his family, I rented homes down there including at Cape Harbour. I'm also heartbroken to see so much destruction; the lives lost, human and animal. All those canals are going to have to be dredged and all the sunken boats and cars are going to have to be removed. Bowman's beach and the Lighthouse beach were two of my favorite places on Sanibel island. So was the Mucky Duck restaurant on Captiva and their amazing beach at sunset. Sanibel truly has healing powers and could make you feel better the moment you got there...and the cool part, this phenomenon happens even when you anchor off Bowman's beach, you get the same feeling! It's going to take a lot of time and effort from everyone to fix the area...but as a community of like minded people with a love for the area, I'm sure we will build it back better. At the 5min and 10 sec mark of this video you can see my building off to the left. For people that don't know there are two identical twin towers at Cape Harbour including a low rise Marina View. I'm happy to see that our building handled the weather quite well considering. We just had the building painted last year in November/December. Our sister building as you can see here needed to be repainted and was due this fall. Some of the frames holding the screens were torn tight off the side of the building which is very dangerous. Nothing to keep you from falling. Most of our damage to the screens was on the Marina side. We will regroup, rebuild, repair and restore.....hope.
We will rebuild. It is still a paradise. Just needs some elbow grease.
Wow cap. That was a lot of damaged boats very sad
I was upset because my boat was taking so long to get an engine swap (on the hard at the marina). Then Ian came to town. $1500 in canvas damage, I am not complaining one bit. Thinking out loud....I watch a bunch of boat launching videos (barges, tankers etc). Maybe digg a few trenches underneath and sliding in industrial inflatable bladders. Once off the ground, insert more bladders that are not in the trenches and tug it backwards.
So scary. I know when our boat was paid for we didn't insure any more. Sad for those that now have scrap. So sorry .
Any update on Happy Ours recovery?
Also looking forward to the episodes from St. Mary's to Cape Coral👍
I’ve heard a crane is on its way in the next day or so. Next ICW trip video coming out shortly too! Thanks for watching!
@@AdventuresofHappyOurs You're welcome and best wishes for the recovery. BTW great job on the videos!
How on earth are they going to move all those boats? Worse then Andrew. I feel for everyone affected!
It would be instructive to find out what storm precautions these boat owners took prior to the storm. Which ones worked and which ones failed. First observation appears to be, don’t leave your boatin a lift!
So glad you all are OK after the storm that came through there. Also, hope that turtle made it out of the water. It looked like a land turtle to me & they like terra firma, not swimming, even though they can, of course. All God’s creatures need an extra helping hand after what they’ve been through, too. Stay safe!
I was concerned for that turtle also. Was looking for it on the way back and couldn’t find him. 🙁
Land turtle = tortoise. That was a common Florida gopher tortoise which strictly live on land…he was dying 😔
As an amateur adjuster, what would you guess the percentage of boats there are totaled?
Depends on who you talk to. Many can be repaired if they didn’t sink. The hurricane deductibles take a big bite out of settlements. I was just given 7k for my boats damages which is a joke. They are lowballing payments significantly.
did you mean what percentage of boats were damaged? or what percent of damaged boats were totaled? because it was very inequal. I just helped a friend who had to crane their boat, that was raised and tied to their dock, back into the water. the neighbor just 50 feet away is a snowbird and didnt do anything to that boat and it rode everything out just fine. Here is "an answer" in smaller canals near the worst of the surge many boats are fine. In bigger canals the wind got down on the water and caused 2 to 4 ft waves and that broke many boats free. most of SE cape coral north of cape parkway got very little damage. Of the boats that were damaged from owners I have talked to almost anyone who had the engine submerged are a total loss, My boat is similar to the youtubers situation where it stayed at my dock but is partially off the lift so I need to get it surveyed, I do not think it will be a total loss.
@@kurtsnowden5221 I just mentioned totaled.
The boat on the thumbnail & in the video is Heartbeat, a 2016 Outer Reef. It was for sale & under contract!🙁
I didn’t realize it was for sale. Bummer. What size is it? I saw it was a Trident but no numbers.
wow if I was that broker I wouild be kicking myself for not moving the boat to safety. they just lost themselves $140,000 commission :(
It's a good week to own a barge and crane !
I'm sorry, but I live here and find it hard to be moved by losses of boats when so many people lost thier homes and businesses.
When and where do you begin to fix the boats? I suspect even if the insurance companies claim fixable or totaled where do you find the manpower?
Manpower will be an issue. As well as available space to do the work. I went through this in hurricane Sandy in NY. The smart dealers were having fiberglass workers sent up from Florida to help. I hope the same happens here.
Do you ever get with that singer on the island? He been doing different gigs and helping out other singers there
Not sure who that is so I’d say no.
That turtle you passed was a land turtle. Probably needed help getting to land as he is not a water turtle:(
Man what a mess all them poor boats
Wow..what I'd give to dry dock my boat in my backyard lol.. excellent time for a go over, TouchUp, Cleanup and some TLC. Back in the water whenever the crane arrives...no hurry. The soakers will be written off by insurance so excellent time to go shopping for a new ride. Stay positive remember why you bought a boat in the first place was it to show off was it to take the family out fishing remember these are just toys, replaceable, your not!
The boats and docks were hit hard but the houses look ok. Some lost tiles shingles here and there but structures look good. Did the houses get flooded? Can’t tell from video. I lived thru Andrew it was small and super strong fast hurricane. South dade looked like a bomb went off. Now hurricane code might have saved homes on west coast.
Most houses in the area too some water. The newer ones were built a little higher so a 1 foot elevation increase made a big diffference
thank you for your concern Diana. Where the youtuber was is the "newer" parts of cape coral. many of the older areas are no where near the water and were not build up. Those are the areas hardest hit by the flooding, many streets are lined with all the peoples possessions. Many were lower income renters, and probably didnt have insurance :(
Also, an amazing camera. What brand?
iPhone 12. Lol
@@AdventuresofHappyOurs kudos to iphone and the operator.
wow.
The clean up efforts will take months. The loss of boats alone will be epic to comprehend 🙏😢
Months? Years…especially the islands
The damages are unreal. Do you happen to know the wind speed and storm surge numbers that hit Cape Coral? I use to live Waterway Estates N Ft Myers down from Paradise Marina. I don't think it was as bad as Cape Coral You guys got slammed! The Best to you on your recovery from Ian hurricane. one for the recird books..
Thanks…140mph we’re recorded in Cape Coral.
The surge at my canal was about 6-7’
Non-stop destruction. Still a mess there by pinchers...
Will be for a while. What’s your trip plans post Ian?
I truly feel horrible for all of these people that have suffered damage to their homes. However I believe there should be completely separate insurance companies for anyone that chooses to live on the shorelines. So that when devastating damage is done such as hurricanes and Storm surges. Insurance rates don't go up for everyone. Only those that live on the shorelines or in low-lying areas. They're also has to be better building codes such as better structurally designed seawalls that go minimum of 50 ft into the ground and 30 ft above the ground and should be required to surround the entire home or property along with structures that are built along the shoreline should be required to be built at a hurricane category five integrity. Before the home can even be legally built or insured. And Zoning in general needs to be more diligent along with code enforcement. And areas should be more properly evaluated for the potential of flood or storm surge. And this should apply to all structures that are built along the shorelines. Along with a minimum height requirement. Meaning the structure itself needs to be built at the very minimum of at least 50 ft above sea level.
Doesn’t look like the State is in any kind of a hurry to fix all the leaking fuel, sewage, and oil on those vessels!
I spoke to the Coast Guard and they claim they are prioritizing leaking vessels.
Looked like a gopher tortoise in the canal. Probably would have preferred dry land!
Good canal footage. I live near the yacht club and got 19 inches of water inside. I took video from my kitchen window standing in sewer salt water near 10 hours. I never journeyed away from home for 10 days to look around because the disaster I had to deal with and still today. My Lexus SUV was under water over the bumper in the garage. Truck I over hauled, bearings, battery starter, and alot more and saved it A boat got caught on my pool cage and another mowed down my mango tree. My house was covered but no content =( its a rough ride
So sorry for you. I consider ourselves lucky to only have 6 inches in house. I was able to save a lot by putting items up on tables, beds, etc. I drove down to check the yacht club area a few weeks later and was astonished how much damage. Good luck. Just focus on a little better every day and you’ll get through it.
I'm kinda amazed, that almost none of these canal front homes are not on stilts.
This community is one of the oldest in Cape Coral. My home was built in 1973. It has never been flooded like this. The newer homes will be built on higher landfill. A one foot elevation made the difference between a flooded home and a dry home here.
The number of Cat 2 plus ,storms have increased by 10x over the last 12 years in Florida. There are countless scientific and engineering studies suggesting it will get worse. Yet I have seen interview after interview of people saying they still want to live in these high risk areas. At some point people need to accept the reality of the risk. Also why didn’t people move their boats on shore? There was several days of notice on this risk. There needs to be a serious discussion on the realities of these areas. I say this as I am very empathetic for everyone who has had major losses including life through these catastrophic storms.
You've got iguanas in Cape Coral? Must've washed up from the Keys.
They are everywhere around here. I saw a live one swim across my canal a couple weeks ago.
@@AdventuresofHappyOurs I live in the Tampa area (Riverview) and have rented some vacation homes a few times in Cape Coral, but have never seen the iguanas there. It really shouldn't surprise me that they're there.
Funny story... Several years ago after coming back from Marathon, we stopped for breakfast at that first McDonald's on the mainland from Key Largo. We parked near the dumpster since we were pulling a boat. On our way back to the truck something moved on top of the dumpster and caught my eye. At first I thought maybe just a raccoon, or a cat.
NOPE!!! After further watching of this "shadow movement" it then crawled along the top and revealed what it really was.
I told my wife and daughter to "Get in the truck. NOW !!"
It looked like a 3-4 ft Komodo dragon!! I've seen documentaries on what these things can do to a 1,000 lb bull with just one bite.
Well, after successfully avoiding Godzilla, we Googled "monitor lizards" and found it was just a tegu lizard and not a Komodo. Whew!! We were relieved to find that we humans weren't on its menu.
But still, that dude was very impressive looking.......and menacing, too!
Great! Something else to worry about. Lol
Hi Ian have you been to the 8 lakes yet? Have they suffered badly too?
Yes. Some of this footage is of the 8 lakes. The docks were ripped right up out of the ground in parts of the lakes. The fetch across the lake were the cause of many sunk boats. Very sad.
@@AdventuresofHappyOurs heartbreaking, i am on vacation next year at 8 lakes, I just hope and prey everyone can get through this together ❤️
That's what a major hurricane with 15+ storm surge and not being prepared looks like...
You can’t protect from a 15’ storm surge. The only thing you can do is take your boat out of flood zone. Tens of thousands of boats with no where to go. No one knew for sure where it would hit and how high the storm surge is expected until hours before landfall and by then it’s too late. You can add lines, anchors and fenders but when the water rises higher than your pilings, not much to do but pray. In Hurricane Sandy I pulled boat on land and blocked it. Surge washed it and the entire 400 boat marina away.
if people were not "prepared" for that increase of no hurricane force winds in cape coral as the predection just 24 hours before we, there would have been significantly higher loss of life and damages. We live in Florida we are always prepared, and for what you cannot prepare for you pay for with insurance. So lets hope the insurance companies were prepared to pay us the claims we paid the premiums for.
All those houses where under water
Someone posted a video of your boat being picked up
Sadly, that "turtle" in the film likely wasn't a water turtle. It actually looked more like a Box Turtle, or someone's pet tortoise that got swept into the water. They are land dwellers and cannot swim or survive in the water. They simply drown.
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Yes , it is a tortoise, not water based.., it does float , I hope it found land..
That terrible
Hopefully you picked up the gopher tortoise from the water and put it on dry land.
That was a land turtle. Should have grabbed it!
Very wealthy area
There are some million dollar homes but most are not. Prices doubled over past few years after Covid. Compared to NY, it’s cheaper.
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Unfortunately that was a tortoise and not a water turtle and now he will probably die.
I don't see any efforts to clean up.
It’s a slow process but thousands of boats are being recovered since the storm. I was just at cape harbor marina today and can find only one boat still sunk there. They had catastrophic damage to boats over 50’. Sunk and on land.
its bad BUT not as bad as FT Myers n Sanibel Island
Fort myers definitely got the worst of it.
@@AdventuresofHappyOurs I heard that u guys have a red tide now is that true n how long do they last where u cant go in the water
@@storytime8805 haven’t heard that. But they did say don’t go in water due to the amount of debris, fuel, oil and wastewater mixed in atm.
@@AdventuresofHappyOurs sad very sad I pray it all comes back n the beach will b safe again
@@AdventuresofHappyOurs A lot of the waterways now are polluted and lots of bacteria from dead animals. I heard that you have to watch out for flesh eating bacteria. If you want to go swimming in the sea, it's best to do it north around Siesta Key or on the east coast for now. I used to go kayaking through the mangrove island at Cape Harbour and come out across miserable mile. It was amazing. So beautiful.....within the mangroves you had shallow brackish water and very few fish. Lot of birds and the mangrove trees were so high that and you were sitting so low that you couldn't see the Cape Harbour buildings! All you heard was your paddle and exotic birds.
I live inland Florida because I certainly understand the power of storms, winds, water. I had minor damage to my home and grounds but I paid out of pocket for repairs. In spite of never filing an insurance claim my insurance premium increased 20% to pay for the insurance claims by people like this who chose to live on the water and keep boats. I have no sympathy for people like this when I know people far inland have lost homes.
families unite - granny and pop pop go home and teach your children and grand children as God commanded and get off the golf course and out of the fancy restaurants. There would be no need for Day Care and Godless schools.
Just for your information, our community is just that, a community full of people that care. Entire families do live here and we don't all "live on golf courses" and eat Lobster Thermador; we love our way of life and we give back to our community. We teach our kids well too. I'm not saying we don't have crime, however for an area with 1. 5 million people between 3 counties it's dramatically lower than elsewhere. For your information, many countries in the world including Canada and most particularly the province of Quebec including the City of Montreal (3 million pop) are secular. Children are taught about all religions as part of their normal curriculum.
Happy Our............everything belongs to GOD. There is no "OUR" about it. GOD has allowed you to putt around in one of his dinghies.
Matthew 24:38 KJV
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69 Judge ....... You are beyond my help. For everyone else this person is wrong. "Everything comes from God" we learned from the Parable of the Talents a master will give more to those who steward well what is given to them, and take what is "buried to be kept safe". Worldly possessions are "ours" it is what we choose to do with them that makes the difference.