After Ian, Fort Myers Fire Chief Is Seeing A ‘Heavy, Heavy Surge’ In Damage
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2022
- Fort Myers Fire Chief Tracy McMillion says his department has made over 200 water rescues since last night. “Catastrophic would be a good word for [the damage],'' McMillion said.
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Takes me back to Andrew in South Miami Dade County. So sad, beyond words . . .
Rebuilding in those areas hit hardest seems very foolish to me. Especially the barrier islands.
I mean, prob safer than living there in ruins? lol Not like hurricanes take the exact same path each time and you declare land uninhabitable because you got hit by a storm.
If sparrows can learn not to build their nests in downspouts, why can't humans learn not to build their houses on floodplains or areas prone to flooding?
A house next to the water, is always, eventually, a house under the water.
Wow that $900,000 that the governor gave to his friend for that charter might come handy ....
Pls let me corrected you Floridian taxes. The money of all the people that today lost their houses
I thought it was $12 million for the total contract, as much as the state budget allowed. Yeah it would have come in handy for recovery efforts.
I know it's not the right thing to do, but I'll be here for all of the political pettiness.
That smug a-hole of a governor would have had zero sympathy if this destruction happened in what people of his ilk calls Democrat run states... I'm looking forward to him having to see Uncle Joe face to face... Wishing you folks a speedy recovery.
The $85 billion worth of HIGHLY CLASSIFIED WEAPON TECHNOLOGY Biden gave Taliban. The $53,000,000,000 Biden GAVE Ukraine could help too.
This tragic beyond words. People who have been living there for years while keeping up with their homes, redecorating, new landscaping and it all was taken away in a flash. I can't even imagine. Where are these poor people going to live while the city is being rebuilt?
Agreed, truly sad. For those that lost their homes, I've no idea the answer to that. They've got a good community of people down there, and people all over helping, so hopefully they'll get the help that they need.
I have a flash back of Maria cat 4 that leave without a home ,9 months without water or electricity ,3 hours lines for gas ,etc but we survive and rise and keep going hard working .Florida will rise no doubt 🙏🏼on all Florida people blessings 🇵🇷💪🏼
Insurance companies will go out of business paying those claims
Insurance companies have Insurance. They make money on the margin
Their going to make any attempt possible to delay or not even pay the claims.
Prayers
Ok! So not getting that development in hurricane prone areas like this is just f'n stupid!.
Thanks to all first responders and everyone helping the recovery effort!
This one completely transformed this island community forever!
Why didn't Trump break out his Black Sharpie and steer the storm towards Mexico.
FU
@@lindariley1608 You can take Trumpy as Pres, but you can't take a Joke?
Our Cousin's lost their new home to fire during hurricane Ian.
They only moved into it in May. Sending you all our love from the UK 🇬🇧
So sorry your family is suffering with the loss of their home, and possibly their community. The area has taken a terrible hit. We never know where the storms will turn inland. Many ppl here don’t have house insurance due to out of control prices, mine is over 7k a year without any flood coverage. Ppl near water pay much more. So, with a new home at least it was well insured. My folks lost every thing they own in a house fire. the fire trucks went to the wrong mountain house…The fire was so hot the eye lashes & brows were burnt off my mom’s face and my dads feet were badly burned when their big, new, mountain top Wyoming house burned to the ground due to a lightening strike. My grandma was wandering around the burning house, (looking for the source of the light, from the fire). So my dad had to search for her with the floors on fire. They too were blessed & barely escaped. So, although a painful loss & horrific event, I’m glad your family is ok! 💙🦋💙🦋💙
@@janetpattison8474 Thank you, as you well know its not so much the big material things but the small personal treasures that matter.
I'm sorry to hear of your family's tragedy, but as humans we always seem to find the resilience to overcome life's obstacles.
Thank you once again, it's nice to know there are heart felt decent people in the world because in our difficult times we need each other more than ever.❤️🇬🇧
My heart goes out to Floridians.
Prayers 🙏 for Florida!
Hurricanes have been hitting the gulf coast for thousands of years. We have no idea just how violent storms were in the past. Only just the last few hundred years. And long after we are all gone those storms will continue to hit the gulf coast.
And they will hit many times harder and more frequently when humans are pumping 35+ billion tons of extra CO2 into the upper atmosphere yearly. That's simple physics and chemistry.
@@panzerblitz2140 so what’s your solution? Will political elite and their Hollywood friends on the left stop flying all over the world in their private jets? Will they move out of their 17,000 sq ft mansions? Will they give up their yachts? No, they want. Instead they will push for us to live in March boxes and drive tiny electric vehicles. Just be the peasants they always wanted us to be!
The seas are rising but people in coastal communities are putting their heads in the sand & refusing to recognize the oceans are rising & you HAVE TO BUILD ON HIGHER GROUND not spits of sand in thr ocean.
@@betsyheimbuch Obama’s beach front mansion gonna sink???
@@goatrockhunters8000 Who knows?
I'm a native Floridian and watched as these area's were developed just as Weston FL was a SWAMP less than 40 yrs ago,
When ever people tell me that getting our society off of oil and gas is going to cost to much, I say "Compared to what?"
compared to the giant craters left behind and the ecological destruction of its surroundings mining for lithium and other battery components.
Somebody better be doing a building inspection before one of those high-rises collapse
That's what I've been thinking too. Why do people build on sand?
@@JaimieJo its beach front if it falls we will build it again
I know the feeling all too well living in New Orleans.. my heart goes out to all those going through this and gonna be going through it.. Us in NOLA are here for those affected!
I am still haunted by the pictures I saw from Katrina. Aweful.
So you haven't learned either.
I'm from New Orleans and lived there until Katrina. You can keep worshipping land if you want but it's going to cost you
@@THATBOISHAD Shaaadup
@@da574 that’s a rude thing to say. There’s plenty of people here going there to help and restaurants like mine that are helping out people that have evacuated.
@@THATBOISHAD I love my city!
Charlie isn’t comparable but Andrew which hit in August 1992, which was a category 5 hurricane with 174 mph winds, that wiped out the entire city of Homestead and Homestead AirForce Base is similar. Sixty some people died in that FL event. The poor folks in Naples and Ft. Myers areas. This storm was supposed to hit my city. 😳☹️😫 we never wish this devastation on anyone. 😢😢😢
I wonder how many insurance agents need mental healthcare right now...
As a former agent for MetLife it was always a pleasure for me to deliver a big check to a client.
Does anyone have any information about the Forum area of Ft Myers?
Stay safe. Thinking of you....🍀
Thoughts are with you all ❤️
Watch us waste taxpayers money rebuilding.
You mean after DeSantis wasted $12 million by enriching his pilot friends to fly Texas's immigrants to Martha's Vineyard and other places?
The strength and determination to rebuild after these major storms is only surpassed by the stupidity to do it again in the same place
Tracy has such a calm, intelligent delivery. The community there are lucky to have him.
Simp much?
rebuild? bulldoze and move.
Regarding the Generator: 3:56 the simple solution is to get an electric battery operated power source. MANY folks use it for camping or outdoor evens.
-they are quiet
-hold the charge for 1 year
-use solar power to recharge
AND you can keep it inside. they are built for RV / Van camping
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... common sense: with no power & FPL grid down& out . it not the right time to use the blender or vacuum. People are trying to run their AC at 61 degrees.
When property owners rebuild, I wonder how expensive, and how difficult, it's gonna be to get property insurance. Whew.
Three insurance companies have already gone under in Florida recently. A huge amount of Florida is within 5 feet above sea level. Maybe they shouldn’t rebuild too much, or only build with that in mind- expect there to be water sloshing through.
@@karenneill9109 sea levels continue to rise because our north and south poles are slowly melting...
@@bruceradz not that slowly, unfortunately!
Same thing goes for owning a business in areas that BLM/Antifa like to burn to the ground. The insurance companies are bailing on those bastions of diversity.
@@karenneill9109 very true Karen. Of course, there are many that just call it a hoax...you and I know better, so does science 😮 😉
My prayers go out to the people out there in Florida to the people that lost loved ones due to this catastrophic and praying for recovery for everyone! 🙏🙏🙏🙏
Where, how do you even start cleanup and repair. Let alone rescue!
Who in their right mind would invest in such a place where this kind of destruction is a sure thing?
Any place beautiful comes with danger. LA and San Fran are hella beautiful, both have had in the past and are GUARANTEED in the future to have a catastrophic earthquakes.
Anyone who lives on EARTH
Midwest- has Twisters
Cali -Fires & Earthquakes
Idaho & Montana have a super volcano - Yellowstone-
TN & Mississippi ruver valley has floods
Fl has hurricanes
Why invest on Earth? Because distaters only happen a few times in a lifetime.
If you build accordingly there are no problems as someone said: You can tell if the homes and buildings are built correctly with concrete and steel and a proper roof they held up just fine they might have got some water from flooding but they're just fine a mobile home or a wooden house not so much we just have to build them right and we have no problems
Scum bucket developer's. Just wait till a major Storm rolls ashore in Surfside and North down A-1-A buildings made so fast and so tall weird shapes total glass nitemare's and during the underground earthquake nobody talks about they WERE SWAYING..... People recorded it and people were SCREAMING.... I was across the bay but on the water at Towers of Quayside at the dock and the deep water turned to sand... That was from the churning of the sea floor. Unbelievable..
Natural disasters don’t really care where you live. If everyone in the US were to move to “safe” areas, only a few states would hold a population.
Old white people
Federal taxpayers will once again have to pay for bad location decisions in these states.
You are 100% correct. It's crazy how many houses have been rebuilt multiple times on the taxpayers dime.
I do think that we should be helping, just don't want to pay for a billionaire's beachfront mansion remodel.
It’s almost like the insurance companies have lobbyists who push for it to stay that way
Support now will convince them faster than negative feedback on their bad decisions. Offer MORE money to rebuild away from the worst flood prone areas.
Don't hit someone when they are down if you want them to make sense or be smart later - or soon.
Probably not what most people expected when they talk about "sea level rise"...
UH this IS sea level rise. The volume of water has gone UP, making storms bigger and wetter and the making the seas RISE.
@@eric2500 I had in mind what kind of disasters climate change will cause most likely...
people have been saying for decades that Florida would go under due to climate change, and they keep building on the very shore, that hoax thing is being way to expensive to be a hoax
@@eric2500 you thought about that one too hard
@@gorgegarcia6609 Calm down. He used random uppercase words so I think he knows what he is talking about. lol
You can’t live there sandbar duh. 👏👏👍🥳
An embryo is *NOT* a baby!
So basically you’re saying now it’s just recovering dead bodies!!!?
They need to put the power lines under ground it would save them a lot of money in the long run
They are under ground
Isn't their water table really high
High water table means that underground is mostly water. But they might not have to be as high in the air.
@@Greeneggsandham123 Are they able to put transformers underground too? I do know the water table is what, 5 feet? It's a consideration when digging a pool.
Won’t work, you then have ground level transformers that would get wet/submerged
My prayers 🙏 go out to the people that were affected, We were spared this time in Ocala.
Explain exactly how your prayers will help?
@@matricci2256 We get it Mat, your life sucks.
Matt Ricci, just shut up.
@@vigo894 or what ?
I'm hoping and 🙏for my love 💓1s is safe,
Why rebuild? Move to higher ground
Wow this hurricane was way worse than I think they thought.I lost everything in hurricane Laura here in louisiana back in August 2020 and relocated to the next town up but I'm just getting everything back we lost.But it was crazy we stayed and my roof buckled I thought the hole house was gonna go, started sticking kids in cabinets throwing the couch and beds over them,in the end we made it and just camped on the property for 4 days then they started send people to New Orleans and we stayed a month in a hotel before find the place we live now and we are further up.We was closer to Lake charles where it hit but this brings me back mother nature is ruthless she doesn't care your color how rich you are if your in the path your in her Rath I'll never stay again through another one.
Depends on who they is. There was plenty of warning that it was going to be bad.
@@Largetalons Ya I know it just seem like it was a lot of people that stayed and when asked on the news it was a lot of people saying they wasn't worried it's Florida we use to this and didn't really do much to prepare this was when it was hitting Cuba it just seemed like a lot of people did think it was gonna be bad just my opinion
I guess you had better live where disasters are minimal like NY.
I guess they just need to clean up the hit areas and move to other places. Rebuilding them is not good idea cause another hurricanes will destroy them again n again! Just waste of money n sweat! Just let the alligators live there!
@@kjsytnmbcz003 So true. We have rebuilt & rebuilt areas of Florida & for that matter New Orleans & they keep getting flooded. What's the point? All that money could be used to resettle people in areas not prone to disasters.
Comme chaque année nous étions cet été à Fort Myers Beach, Sanibel et Bonita Springs. Nous avons le coeur brisé par ce désastre. Toutes nos pensées vont vers les habitants du Lee County, les Floridians et les américains. Bon courage à tous.
Insurance company will fully cover for it, Don't worry, everything will be fine
Can't get insurance here. No one is insured.
Shout out to the contractor that installed the roof over that 7-11. I didn't think they were designed to withstand just 50 mph!!!
Ah well, the government gave stimulus checks to prisoners. At least working people pay taxes to the government rather than costing 60k a piece and getting free money.
@@rustymaximus9179 wow, just wow, greetings from Europe, you must be so proud of Bunker Boy! How many died in the pandemics? As we're throwing unrelated topics just to show our bias,, I'm joining this game
Remember when Republicans in 2013 voted against Federal funding for disasters on States like New Jersey, New York and Ron DeSantis voted against federal aid to Hurricane Sandy?
I’d return the favor
Where was the federal government for Louisiana in 2005 not there !
@C Tee that's the difference between blue and red.
big government bad they say 😄
No. Since when do states get to vote on fema relief money for other states. Derp.
Lets not start blaming most of these deaths on the use of generators? Lets not go there!!
FFS. I hope they take this as an oppourtunity for a strategic retreat, not to just rebuild the same way in the same place. What and awful experience for all involved.
This is just devastating, but looking at the video, it clearly shows that Florida is sandy all around. I'd never move to Florida.
Not all of florida is made of sand. They are showing the most affected areas which is in the coast.
@@mrleon4922 funny I have lived here most of my life…🤭
My house insurance just went up!
Hey let's rebuild so it can just happen again.
It's sad but people choose to live there, they will rebuild and wait for it to happen again.
Yes they will, and if they don't buy the insurance they should be on their own when they suffer a loss. I heard that only 18% of the homeowners in Ft Meyers had flood insurance.
What is truly sad , is, many people will build back in the same spot. These storms will intensify and become more frequent. Change is hard but necessary.
I'm Stephen from Missouri and you
I also hear water is wet.
Patient...it's time to move !
Florida should think about downsizing. When does the rebuilding stop its only going to get worse
how many houses can u build on a barrier island way to many seems from pictures
Rebuilding will be massively complicated due to supply chain problems. This compounds the disaster many times over.
Rebuild? Is this really wise? Hurricanes come every year. The chances that this will happen again is extremely high. These is great devastation.
Florida Strong 💪
Oh my lord
My friends lost their power, lots of trees down.
How about dropping the banner. It gets in the way of the video.
Thank goodness it’s nowhere near as bad as Katrina was!!
Would you people stop saying “a whole Nuther level.” No such word.
We are praying for you. We went through Andrew, lived in Homestead/Florida City. Now we live in Valrico
Wonder if we will have any insurance companies left in the state after this disaster.
For-profit insurance? Not bloody likely.
Homeowners and auto insurance premiums have always been extremely high in FL. I don't know how the average family will be able to afford it now.
In the end, this will cause the real estate boom to end. The demand will be there but the ability yo qualify for loans will evaporate.
Fema controls waterfront insurance. Most of those homes are not insured for acts of God.
And it's a very good probability that this is going to happen again in the next month, year, 5 years. Don't look up!
It’s beautiful to live on the coast but you know this is expected. It’s a chance you take…..
*Paragraph 8 of 66.* _Florida governor Rick Scott bans Florida officials from using the phrase 'climate change'_ Last year, the federal _National Climate Assessment_ said *Florida is vulnerable.* "There is an *imminent threat* of increased inland flooding during heavy rain events in low-lying coastal areas such as southeast Florida, where just inches of sea-level rise will impair the capacity of stormwater drainage systems to empty into the ocean," the study said. The Washington Post, CNN and other media have picked up on the story about the Florida ban, spreading the word about how climate change is likely to impact Scott's state.
What percentage of these water rescues were in the mandatory evacuation zone A areas?
This looks like Puerto Rico during Hurricane Maria or earlier on Hurricane Katrina, total devastation.
Something else is going on with these storms.
Other than some business which use landlines to connect their credit card machines to banking networks. No one uses a phone anymore that requires a wire to the home. The telephone manholes are now used only for fiber optic cables which are only 1 inch in diameter. All the cables in the telephone vaults are pressurized and waterproof. Fiber optic cables use only 3% of the space in the telephone cable vault's conduits.
Are you trying to make a specific point?
Oh I wouldn't say no one uses a land line anymore. Plenty of people do, including me, although AT&T would rather we didn't. They want to sell everyone on U-Verse.
Bc [MY POINT] WAS, > IS THE DISRUPTION OF RECEPTION FROM SATELLITES TO CELL PHONE TOWERS DUE TO DEBRIS A FACTOR? MY SPECULATION, ALBEIT NOT EINSTEIN-ISH, WAS CORRRRECT!!😄🤦👍😁😎 YEA ME...🤦😉✌️stres regression...we FOUND our younger BROTHER [OK] IN FT MYERS YESTERDAY!!!🥂☝️👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏❣️#MICHIGAN
Prayers to everyone. God be with you all. But you are living below sea level on sand, not dirt. When hurricanes come , so does sea water. We get hurricanes every year in any part of Florida. They are only going to get worse. You rebuild, it will go again, lose everything. Again. Is it really worth it. It's a lot of stress when this happens and alot of money down the drain. Insurance companys never give back full amount to recover. It's just not worth to take that chance and have to die of either drowning or get hit by flying debris. Everything you work for, gone, no matter if they did rebuild. That alone will take years. And that's what hurts.
why not build with cement instead of wood
12 million wasted
Umm heavy heavy damage?yea that tends to happen with a category 4 hurricane we’re you born yesterday?
How about move out of there for good
Thought Chuck only did Meet the Press now. Less people watching than back in the day with Russert. Chuck is reaching with this.
Why didn't people move boats and cars up the coast away from the area since they were warned?
For what it's worth - the storm surge from this one affected the whole state and 48 hours may not have been enough time to move boats far enough North to make that much of a difference.
✨🕊️🙏🕊️✨. Please respect human lives. This Hurricane is real.
Remember when Rick Scott was governor of the giant, Universal-water-park; called -Florida- Whorida. Scott forbid the use of the phrases "global-warming" and "climate-change".
Build back with a great distance (between fewer buildings) and the sea. this Florida must never rise again as it was.
Who would have thunk it?? Heavy damage after a hurricane... what is the world coming to?
Well it's just amazing who could have imagined something like this
God works in mysterious ways. This isn't one of them.
uh... every climate scientist ... ever?
*In Europe* rent increases are limited to 2% above the rate of inflation *ONLY.* _In Mexico it is illegal to raise anyone's rent more than 5% per year!_ In California rent increases are capped at 5% a year. In the civilized countries of Canada and Europe guns are outlawed, citizen cannot be made homeless due to an unexpected $500 medical expense, free college educations are provided so predatory student loan debt does not make people homeless, and the global w@rming that is causing the destruction of housing, leading to 40% rent raises; is being addressed.
I saw a strong leader celebrating its victory , while on the other side a great country punish by a super typhoon 🌀 ,is that a co incident ?
It looks more like a tsunami went through, not a hurricane.
I'm Stephen from Missouri and you
@@odogwuempire001 Hello Lawrence… 🤦🏼♀️ Pathetic attempt.
that's amazing how powerful it can tear up the road like that.
In Canada, where a hurricane came up along the east coast, the government gave every family $250 for
food damage from a lack of hydro, $250 on top of $750 for seniors, and $250 for anyone beginning repairs.
Socialism is important in SOME circumstances, like emergencies, education, healthcare and guaranteed retirement
Canada taking care of it's people. RESPECT.
Ok
How much you guys pay in taxes tho?
@@thedoughouse8402 like america didnt hand out money during covid.
Lived there 30 years after Andrew Florida should of seen this coming blind politics to blame your basically in the Caribbean c'mon man
Ian was supposed to hit were I live in Pasco County and I was going to wait it out and I see that the destruction of the storm and I am glad it shifted but my heart goes out to the people of the south 💔 🤧 😪 😔 ♥️
Lmaoooo this storm aint done yet its gona go through SC 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Ironically, the people that would have been used to rebuild Fla. have been shipped off to Martha's Vineyard. Lets face it, most of the immigrants from SA are the same people that have the skills to grow our food, keep our homes clean, keep our gardens and yes fix our homes which includes construction skills.
2 million illegal immigrants this year alone were not shipped other places.
Ironically, he missed 3 illegals. 1 killed a deputy last week.
@@mrleon4922 That's just it. These people were not here illegally. They were admitted and pending hearings for status adjustment. Now that Dachithead did what he did, these people are going to be processed and given the same rights as americans (even if some do not meet qualifications). Instead of waiting for the legal process to complete these people have a FAST pace to citizenship.
The Anchor was definitely fishing for more dramatic responses from this guy so they could get better ratings lol 😂
Actually he loves this .
dont care yall literally live there year after year
And want to be saved
_The UN is supporting a design for a new floating city that can house the homeless while withstanding a Category 5 hurricane_ What once seemed like the moonshot vision of tech billionaires and idealistic architects could soon become a concrete solution to several of the world's most pressing challenges. At a United Nations roundtable on Wednesday, a group of builders, engineers, and architects debuted a concept for an affordable floating city. Unlike instances in the past when these futuristic designs have been met with skepticism, the executive director of the _United Nations Human Settlement Programme_ (UN-Habitat), Maimunah Mohd Sharif, said the UN would support and shepherd this project to fruition. "Everybody on the team actually wants to get this built," said Marc Collins, the CEO of _Oceanix,_ a company that builds floating structures. "We're not just theorizing."