You guys captured some of the best footage of storm surge I’ve ever seen. It displayed perfectly the power and danger of a hurricane, that so many, even here in Florida, completely underestimate. Here in St Petersburg, we were for a time, in the forecasted bullseye of Hurricanes Charley, Irma, and Ian. Those storms either missed us, or at worst delivered just a glancing blow. That had been the case for many years down in Fort Myers Beach too, people become complacent over the years, they stayed, and tragically many of them died. I think anyone who lives in a hurricane evacuation zone should see your video; it will save lives.
We moved to Cape Coral in 2021…was amazed at how much our neighbors helped us prepare and we helped others. After the storm everyone worked together…never saw that in New York….we still love it here …and we were heart broken for those who lost so much …ppl rebuilding …the human spirit at its best ….❤
My husband and I lived on Matlacha when Ian hit. We didn't get out in time because we couldn't find the cat. We managed to get trapped outside in the surge with no protection. A neighbor pulled a boat to where we were when the eye wall passed and got us to his place. I think the angels we had on us were the same as those around that family and their dogs. No worries, we now live in Iowa with the cat we couldn't find; my husband went back for her, and we're doing good. God Bless to that family on Fort Myers Beach and everyone else that survived.
I had no idea and I'm from Lee County, but live in Hendry, so we weren't damaged directly. I think Ft Myers was the main focus, but seeing this video has shown me what ya'll endured as well. #FloridaStrong
First time seeing Ian from someone's view besides my own sadly, how the pain and fear still so alive all these months later. I hope all my fellow neighbors, community, and survivors are doing well on their journey to healing. Reading comments has made me realize I don't need carry the pain alone anymore
The woman in the red house with the dogs ….she AMAZED ME …SHE IS MY HERO saving herself and those dogs until her boyfriend showed up. God bless your family. You kept those babies alive …..🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🤗🤗🤗
okay... so I found you from the Mississippi tornado March 2023, but this, this documentary is the best reason that NO ONE should stay with their house in a hurricane. We used to live in Galveston. While we lived there, I educated my children about why we don't stay with a house. We lived there in the aftermath of Hurricane Ike. We had moved there to rebuild houses (we own a construction company). So many houses were damaged and so many houses had never tasted the effects of a devastating hurricane and we heard so many stories. But your video highlights WHY you don't stay with a house. Thank you for a job well done.
I rode out Ian at home in Cape Coral, and it was one hairy experience. Much worse than Irma was, and the water was up to my house before it stopped rising. The street was a rapids full of wreckage going by fast. Power went out just after 4:00 and was out for 9 days. I came through it with very little damage, but I know some who lost everything in it. The good Lord was watching over me in that one.
@@BadWeatherfreak lucky you, I’m jealous. Here in swfl it was the worst storm I’ve ever been through. I’ve been through a lot of bad storms and this video was hard for me to watch without getting emotional remembering this beast. But I appreciate what this guys done, he really showed the impact and the people’s perspective that got hit the worst. Truly a great video that I wish was longer and had more views. People I work with lost their homes or was trapped due to flood waters or trees and I had part of our roof cave in from a tree uprooting and hitting our side. Two people in my neighborhood died. It was a nightmare
This video was riveting and utterly tragic. Thank you for risking your own lives documenting a storm and bringing a glimmer of hope with the story of survival. This is a historic video of a storm which history will remember for generations.
Agreed, but the even better, crazier, historic video is the entire 10-hour uncut version from that probe (camera)! Its beyond awe-inspiring, especially now that I know there were ppl in that house...and they survived!!!! ua-cam.com/video/igsz7cqg-Zk/v-deo.html
I live on the eastern side of Florida, and the mixture of emotions is something we all felt. Gratitude it isn't us, but heartbroken that it's our neighbors to the west. I've went outside during Irma (Cat1) and the wind steals your breath and the energy is inredible. I cannot begin to imagine what this couple and their dogs went through. Their determination to stay alive is incredible.. Thank you for this video; it gives us a real time view into just how bad Ian was.
Thank you so much for these kind words. Very happy you guys also made it out safely from both with minimal impacts. Always a breathe of fresh air vs the constant scene of disaster
What an incredible story. Thank you for putting this together. I live a bit inland but seeing that house in initial clips sliding off the foundation was devastating. I had no idea they were inside with their dogs. I'm so glad they made it out alive. As a lifelong resident of SW Florida, that storm was the worst I've seen in my lifetime.
I lived on Bay Beach Lane on the south side of FMB. Walked the island the day after and knew our entire life had changed. We didn't just lose our home...we lost our entire community and way of life. Thanks for posting.
So glad to see Tod and Anette make it through this, and Anette is my new hero, despite her and Tod's life being at risk she wasn't going to abandon her pups. Never underestimate the power of a storm, get out of harms way when you can, but if you find yourself in the storm never underestimate yourself.
That family story is crazy.. imagine seeing your neighbors house floating next to yours and basically a freaking ocean in your front lawn.. inane.. i did not finish the video yet but i hope the dogs made it also and good thing they got prepared and was ready, it probably saved them Incredible story man!!! I can bet some ppl would have just left the dogs behind to make sure they save themselves (which those type of ppl are terrible i know it definitely happens) but you guys are heros man and have REAL heart!!!! Smart thinking with the life vest and everything they did
My family and I were also on fmb during hurricane Ian. I’m so glad this couple and their dogs are okay. It was the most intense thing I’ve ever been through. We were able to have some neighbors kayak over since our house was up high. Prayers for fmb. ❤️🩹Great doc!
Lived at Board Walk caper behind Pinchers. Stayed also. 2nd story condo. Came 2 steps from entering. My area is at 15:51 time stamp by Getaway Marina. What an experience.
@ohiostormchasers Hurricane ian flooded my street and almost destroyed my menorah because I didn't board my windows, I also didn't get sandbags but thank god, me and my family survived so did my home despite we payed money to repair the one broken window, but everyone in my house were scared especially me because I did my best to keep my family safe and my youngest child was crying when she saw the flooding and my son cried when he saw the horrific storm surge in fort myers
So glad this doc was made, people can never understand unless they went through it. I’ve been through every hurricane in FL since 1988 and I’ve NEVER experienced anything like this! 😔
I lost everything. Ian was bad, but I think it was made worse by the people messing with the weather, and, YES...that is a real thing!! I am angry as all hell!!!
@@PineIslandSeeds I completely agree! “Seeding” is a known and well documented thing, I also think all the recent tornadoes and bad weather back to back up North is caused by seeding as well.
Moved to fort Myers 2 years ago. Lived here years ago. Experienced a few hurricanes. But nothing like IAN. That was brutal and we lost a lot of people here. It was one for the records. Thanks for sharing what it was like here.
Full time FMB resident that rode out the hurricane on my second floor of my home. We lost the first floor as it washed out into the back bay and the five paid off vehicles. Prayers for all families affected by Hurricane Ian.
Thank you for making this. I live 4 miles inland and rode out the storm. But I lost my business of 11 years on Fort Myers Beach. This whole thing has been heartbreaking on so many levels.
This was a wild, insane ride to watch. I honestly got tears in my eyes from imagining what they had to go through in those harrowing moments. Thank you for bringing their story and the intensity of this act of nature to everyone.
Wow!! I second this entire comment. I was in it but in North Port away from the ocean. This was a very powerful video for sure, their story is incredibly touching.
As an Ian survivor who lost his home and lovely golden retriever, I am realizing that my family wasn't just the one inside my home but the one that is in this country. I received so much support from people I didn't even know. Thanks to my brothers and sisters I was able to get back on my feet.
Damn. This is harrowing footage Aaron & Max. I'm so grateful 🙏 you guys made it thru and your friends did too. Seeing this now for the first time has me gutted. I did IRMA relief in Ft Myers. Seeing it gone just did something to me on the inside. There's still people I've not heard from since that I stayed connected with after my journey there. 😢
Thanks for the link to Tod’s go fund me. That’s a valiant effort and was happy to help a fellow FL resident. That was one nasty storm and I’ve been through a few. Great job capturing its impact and providing footage that can help folks truly visualize what those beasts are like. Cheers
I have lived in Naples for 40 years and have had many Hurricanes hit our area. Ian was different, and the storm surge predictions changed at 11:00 am. The new mantra is run from the water and hide the wind. When we drove away at 11:00 am the water was rising. We could not return till the next day, till after the storm surge had subsided. Excellent video that captures the fear and horror of storm surge.
Pffttt Naples didn’t get hit hard at all you got like 2 maybe 3ft surge get off your high horse Cape Coral fort Myers punta gorda and port charlotte got hammered
Maybe @HippyBobRoss should know his facts before calling people off there high horses..jerk.. During Hurricane Ian in 2022, Naples, Florida experienced a storm surge of over 9 feet, including the tide level, which was a new record for the city. The surge itself was at least 6.2 feet, which also set a record. I was there…
@HippyBobRoss yea naples can get flooded with just a couple hours of regular rain . I would know because I drove through like 4 ft of water in my truck leaving work
Amazing. I had seen the original viral video but didn't know the full story (except I recall reading that the house's occupant had made it) I'm so glad they're OK. Kudos to them for sharing their story to help others escape a similar ordeal. I have a fair number of followers on some social media channels, and I'm going to bookmark this so I can post it before big storms with expected surges. . This is such a powerful video showing both the true strength of a strong hurricane and the destructiveness and danger of storm surge. Also I think you were rash to go south - you could've been killed driving in the storm? - but unlike a lot of storm chaser videos it really shows how dangerous it is to be out, even for you guys. I think some people who see weather channel and storm chaser videos think "well if they can stay I can stay" and don't realize - you're mobile in a way residents aren'. You scout and choose where to make a stand, plan escape routes, are monitoring the storm with wx experience and know when to bail, know what kinds of walls to get behind and on which side to avoid the wind, and have a storm shelter fsllbsck position. Homeowners are stuck in a house rhey don't want to leavd.
All of my hurricanes have been inland (Kate, Michael, Hermine, etc.) The most rain I have ever seen in my life was in Fay. But I have seen nothing like the surge from Ian.
My girlfriend and I were at lani kai about 3 weeks before Ian. We have followed the whole storm coverage from day 1. We are going back in 2024!! Beautiful place and awesome people !
wife and I with 2 small dogs didnt chance it.....we live in Zone A....we packed up our Hyundai Tucson with as much stuff as we could and drove to Valdosta for a week at Super 8....then headed back home....our Davis Woods condo complex looked like a war zone!....there were cars on top of other cars stacked!...the stench!...it was hell!...although our 2nd floor condo wasnt a total wreck, we ended up living in Indiana until new AC and power was restored...that took 6 months!...we came back on April 15...much more fortunate than a lot of others who still are waiting for repairs to be done!...ill never forget this!
My whole immediate family lives here in Ft. Myers, there's 4 houses between us and we all rode out the storm. The news was telling us it was a Cat 3, and I've lived in FL all my life so I didn't really think about evacuating. Me and my stepbrother live more inland, nowhere near water, so both of us had minimal damage. My stepsister is in Cape Coral, she had pretty bad roof damage and all her well equipment was gone. My mother is the one that got hit the worst. She lives very close to the water, not the beach but a few canals. She called me mid hurricane yelling that they had to flee the house because the water was inches away from the front door. They were able to make it safe to my stepbrother's house. The next day she told me 'everything is gone!'. I was honestly expecting to find out the house was just gone. That wasn't the case, it was still there, but everything inside was ruined. The storm surge was about 5 feet, you could see the line of water was halfway up the walls. The floor was caked in mud, all the furniture was scattered around and filthy, the bedrooms were disasters. She lost a lot of things she had collected over the years, but at least the house itself was still standing. We've been through plenty of hurricanes but we've never been as impacted as we were after Ian.
Thank you for this, I watched it with my 14-year-old son and was troubled because I thought I watched the last moments of someone's life. I am so happy to know that they survived. I agree that this video needs to be shown to help people to understand the horror of storm surges.
This is the video that taught me how fast the storm surge is,OMG! And I live on East Coast and been through hurricanes but wow, unbelievable. That pink house and the fact they survived is simply a miracle. Most of all the guys who filmed it were sick they had witnessed what they knew had to be fatalities. Compassion. Today I have a neighbor who was victim to Ian, rescued from his home as he was found on kitchen counter, lost everything. And these 2 guys certainly gave us an education, thank you!!!
One of the top 3 videos about Ian. Luved through hurricane Andrew back in '92 and had our entire roof, in very well built home tear off. My brothers and sistera and I were crying like babies as my mom and dad brough the littlest mattresses in their bathroom where we lived to tell our story with countless others. Thanks guys
Excellent coverage of this horrific storm. We were on FMB. It was as though a massive tornado came ashore & stayed, bringing 1/2 the Gulf w/ it. We were grateful to be alive... Of course the next day brought sapphire blue skies & achingly beautiful weather. It was a surreal backdrop to the post apocalyptic conditions around us. Stay strong FMB. Love you ❤
Just watching this now , as I lived through it on that day in Englewood, near the Walmart that was on the video you guys got great footage of what we couldn’t see with all our shutters down listing to all the breaking things around us out side for 9 hours of wind with no eye to let up , I actually got chills seeing this all over again. And re-living it through this video almost a year later , we are still repairing Englewood to this day and still have home repairs but at least I have a home , still a lot of down signs and store roofs off in our neighborhood , the the win. Dixie plaza by placida
I’m from Tampa and we had some major survivor guilt after for quite some time. I had fully expected Tampa to get the worst of Ian but it shifted course at the last minute.
It's been just over 11 months now.... 40 years of living in FL and Ian is now the name that all others are judged against... The FMB/Sanibel/Matlacha areas will never be what they once were before that day... Thank you guys for putting out the story... hopefully it will save lives in the future.
Thanks for posting. I have often wondered if folks in the red house survived. If memory serves the man had much earlier parked his car across the street than went into the house. Never saw him come out - so glad he did.
Y’all did an awesome job capturing the wrath of Mother Nature with this storm. I gotta admit, hurricanes can be quite fascinating to watch although the devastation they cause is very sad.
I haven't watched any videos since I went through Hurricane Ian until now. I live 20 minutes from Fort Myers Beach. It was one of the top 5 devastating things I've ever been through
I love this video because it's the best video on the net right now of hurricane 🌀 Ian.. I got chills and tears watching this.. We rode out the storm in a small bathroom. You could hear the winds coming threw the pipes. It sounded like the rooftop was going to fly off. You could hear stuff slamming against the house.! It was definitely intense where we was at.. I got some photos and videos of right before the eye came and right after the storm.. We had hail from a tornado that was near by.! Surround what looked like a lake outside the house.! But thankfully we are alive 🙌 I feel bad for anyone who was in this storm... This is not my first hurricane 🌀 I've been threw so many. This storm & Charlie was definitely storms to remember..
As a Cape Coral resident and going through this as my first hurricane I am bawling. I did see this video on tik tok, hoping they had evacuated. I am so glad they are okay. ❤❤️🩹❤️
I grew up on fort myers beach, and I fear it will never be the same 😢 looking back a year later, it still gives me anxiety and the chills. My mom was alone and stubborn and wouldn’t leave, her house is 5 miles from the gulf. She didn’t even put shutters up, it’s a miracle nothing happened. Thankfully, she was fine but I could not get into contact with her for over a day, and I was seconds away from calling search and rescue before she called me, and I burst into tears. She said she was hiding in her closet for a whole day and was afraid to leave. Thank you for covering these storms. Stay safe everyone. Hurricanes are no joke.
I moved to Cape Coral Florida from DFW Texas, I moved here just 2 months before Hurricane Ian, this was the first Hurricane I have ever been through in my life.
Was just south of Ft. Myers, absolutely insane storm! I had just moved to Florida from up north in Michigan and i'd never experienced anything like it, it's good to see it from someone elses view, thanks for making this, as most people from out of state don't even know about Ian!
Cape Coral resident here. The day ian hit was the most terrifying day of my entire life. When water kept rising all around me, that feeling of panic I will never forget. Considering moving after living here since 1996.
Hurricane ian survivor here. I remember the day before the hurricane hit, we were happy we had no school for a week. In case of flooding we put sandbags in our backyard, the winds the day the hurricane hit were devastatingly high. Rest in peace to anyone who died in hurricane Ian.
It was the scariest day evening and night of my life. Lots of people thought it was going to be like Irma but Irma but Ian was so destructive. I live in cape coral. By the time we knew it was coming straight to us alot of people were already going to Miami and weather was already getting bad. My wink news app at one time showed winds saw 116 mph. Extreme wind warnings for almost 9 hours. So sad so many lost so much. Thank God my area missed the surge.
My family also thought it was gonna be like Irma where it would die down to a 2 or 3 by the time it reached us, and boy were we wrong. We got complacent since we weren't hit too hard by past storms so we really weren't expecting to get stuck in the eye wall for around 5 hours or more. Still can't believe we survived it.
@@snicksss yes. I won't ever stay for anything above 3. Too close. My sliders were actually moving because the wind was so strong. Thank God we are all ok.
@@melissakline8738 Yeah. My front door was like being pushed in by the wind so we had to put stuff in front of it so it didn't burst open. I'm actually shocked my lanai cage survived cause it's very rickety and rusted at the nails.
Also in Cape Coral, and also thought it was going to be similar to Irma. I don’t think anyone knew it was going to hang over us for so long. Will never forget it.
@@Leg239 me either. Extreme wind warnings for hours! We even got the animal cages out in case we got the surge. Crawl up on the truck then onto the flat garage room. And we have a higher flat spot at the very tops of the house for us and the dogs and cats. Praying we don't get anything close to that again!! Glad you were safe!
Ive lived in florida my entire life, SWFL to be a little more specific. my family managed to escape the same day hurricane ian hit, we barely had time to pack and we drove to my aunts home. it was terrifying but wasn’t as bad, i knew people had it worse than my family. when i returned home, my neighbors had sunshine in their living room. luckily last year we had our roof replaced ( maybe repaired? i don’t know the difference to be honest ) and that truly saved our home. our home had very little damage shockingly, and i’m extremely glad my family got out when we did and that my neighbors lived.
So happy and amazed that they survived with their furbabies…how she held on with her furbabies is incredible…the strength she had shows the strength of the human spirit and her will to survive and save her babies. I totally get it! My heart goes out to her. I have no doubt this changed their lives. Your dogs are beautiful and they know what you did for them. God bless you all. Great job to the storm chasers who got this footage for the world to see how amazing they were ❤️❤️❤️❤️….May life be great to all ! ❤️🎉
My dad lives in Ft Myers and he rode out this storm and was one of the lucky ones who wasn’t flooded out. He still said even tho he was fine definitely one of the worst storms he’s seen in a long time.
I saw the probe video first and the guy walk back up the stairs to the red house. Once the storm surge totally took the red house away I was so praying for a miracle that the guy made it somehow. Thanks for sharing this update and to know that both he, his lady, plus the dogs made it out alive! What a true miracle!!! Thanks for sharing
I evacuated at 5am the day of the hurricane. The whole day before CCPD was driving through my neighborhood telling us to leave. 3 of my neighbors stayed and said it was the worst hurricane ever and they will never stay again. There are still 2 houses with tarped roofs on my street almost 2 years later. Took me almost a year to repair my house with NO help from anyone or any agency except my homeowners/hurricane insurance. My home is now for sale and I am leaving SWFL for good
If you wanna avoid this stuff, you gotta leave Florida and just don't stay on the east coast. Go up north but don't go too far West cause you'll just get stuck in Tornado Alley and it'll get torn up again.
Wow! All I can say. Just Wow. Thank God you guys made it. We came down to our place inland Fort Myers. We were fine but so saddened to see the unbelievable damage to Fort Myers Beach.
Excellent footage of this powerful storm. My family and I stayed in our home during Ian. I sat in our walk in closet and prayed 🙏. Horror experience to live through 😮
@@townbizness8800 my friend, and I rode out Ian in my house on the water in Placida. It was frightening yes, but I would ride the next storm out because to me evacuating turns out to be more trouble than help. A lot of people that Steve said if they hadn’t stayed, they may have lost their house.. so it’s kind of a darned if you do and darned if you don’t situation. But whatever happens to me, I want it to happen in my home..
After being in port Charlotte for Ian I can say my entire life in Florida was changed in a day. 176 mph sustained winds with 200 mph gusts truly is devastating, but what FMB went through is unabashed destruction. I will take 200 mph winds every time over the pure destructive power that water has. We visited FMB 9 days after the storm when my work was caught up to a point of being able to have more than 4 hours off in a day. And what we saw and felt was heartbreaking, too many Floridians like myself have become too comfortable when it comes to hurricanes, combine that with the piss poor forecasting and it reeked havoc on a community that was not truly prepared. Im glad you guys put a documentary like this together and wish more eyes would see it.
@@Trahzy considering the marina reported those winds, their were absolutely 176 mph sustained winds and gust up to 212 mph I mean it not like I didn’t have a tree on top of my house from the storm or anything. They refused to upgrade it to a cat 5 due to the impact on insurance companies. Google Eldred marina hurricane Ian.
I lived in Clearwater when this thing was coming. The night before landfall, it was forecast to go right over my house I’ve never boarded up or evacuated for a storm, but this one had us ready to go.
I was in an evac zone well wasn’t until ccpd came by saying to leave but we had no where to go. Thank the lord he protected me and my family through it. Born and raised in this area and been through Andrew, Charlie and others and nothing compared to ian I will never do this again. So sad to see all my childhood memories gone in the span of 10hrs
Thank Lord and thank you OHIO Storm chasers for your probe and video. I am so happy to see a happy ending to storm surge video. God is good and surely was with this family.
Hey guys, almost an entire year later, I can't believe this. Guys, I love watching natural disasters and I came upon a video at work by chance where I saw a fast forwarded video of a storm surge in Fort Myers from Ian. I was intrigued and decided to follow links to this video, when I noticed a man entering his home. I couldn't keep my eye off it. Silently praying at some point he got out. I found a 9 hr upload of this and continued watching when I went home. Only to find that I never saw him leave. I was devastated. 4 days later while going through videos of the record breaking rains in NY, I came upon this video and to my astonishment, the man is alive. Praise God. You can't imagine how sad I was seeing his house float away and never having seen him left. For a moment, I thought he had left without my knowledge, cause no way could someone survive this. Guys, your camera did an AMAZING job capturing this. And like Tod said, leave it out there so ppl can see the dangers of storm surges. We are never really told of storm surges and we don't take them seriously. I was born in 1979, 2 weeks before Hurricane David struck my Caribbean island Dominica. Then 6 yrs ago, Hurricane Maria destroyed the land again. So anything I learn about storms interests me. Thanks for your video. May God bless your work.❤
Great footage. Thank you for sharing. We live on Pine Island in northern Bokeelia. Unfortunately, our St James City neighbors took the brunt of the storm with the surge. We are Pine Island Strong!
First time I’ve seen this particular video. Still can’t get thru this without tears. I’ve only been living in Fla. 2 years. Never dreamed this would happen. The strength of the people devastated by this is still amazing. 💙
living in Florida or anywhere that's prone to Hurricanes you're expecting to get situations like this I like in South Carolina which is also a Hurricane prone state but I live far away from the coastline the only thing we've got to worry about is heavy rain and strong winds from Hurricanes and Tropical Storms
I'm at 15:29 and you just called it Ft Myers Proper. I hope that gains traction. I've never, ever heard any part of Ft Myers called "proper", but I feel like I still know exactly which neighborhood you're headed to. "Ft. Myers Proper" should be anything south of downtown... from here on.
I lived in Fort Myers about 3 miles from the house that got washed away. After Ian we put our home for sale and moved back to Michigan. I always thought it would be fun to go through a hurricane but after Ian I said never again. It was horrible.
I remember watching the snapchat stories of a few friends in the area. It was insane to see it in the perspective as the flooding and destruction occured.
Wow this made me cry because I lost my dad bc of this and my dog I got for my birthday and my whole family needed to go the hospital very injured you guys are wild for doing this and my moms job was destroyed and our house stay safe y’all
I found the 9 hour video just by accident and have had it playing on my big screen TV all day while I work on my computer. It's only 3 hours in and the house is still there. (I peaked and know how it ends.) Then I found this video which tells the story while I'm still watching it unfold. I'm so glad all 4 of them made it out alive. Tod is right. Everyone who ever thinks about riding out a hurricane should be forced to watch this.
lol its not your home if you have no money to rebuild. Insurance companies are leaving in droves and if you have a mortgage and you lose insurance coverage you are in default if you don’t get a policy in 30 days.
You would think you would have shoes on during something like this...Must have been so scary! My family went in after hurricanes in Florida and Texas...we just seen the aftermath...so sad and devastating! Glad y'all made it through...my heart goes out to the families that were effected
My wife use to manage a doctors office in Fort Myers. Just in her office alone, 4 patients have never been found, who decided to stay and ride out the storm close to Fort Myers beach. Makes you wonder how many bodies are still laying in the mangroves.
I was on the east coast in Vero Beach. We had 3 hurricanes in 2 years and I swear for 65mph where we were felt like a cat 2. The energy in that storm was unreal
Paradise has it's cost too. Been in Florida on the Gulf all my life . I've seen it all , been in storm surge on the beach - 30 ft. waves in the Gulf , 130 mph winds , The scariest is the storm surge of a Hurricane. The Storm Chasers did the video in the Mobile home park , which got leveled
You guys captured some of the best footage of storm surge I’ve ever seen. It displayed perfectly the power and danger of a hurricane, that so many, even here in Florida, completely underestimate. Here in St Petersburg, we were for a time, in the forecasted bullseye of Hurricanes Charley, Irma, and Ian. Those storms either missed us, or at worst delivered just a glancing blow. That had been the case for many years down in Fort Myers Beach too, people become complacent over the years, they stayed, and tragically many of them died. I think anyone who lives in a hurricane evacuation zone should see your video; it will save lives.
We moved to Cape Coral in 2021…was amazed at how much our neighbors helped us prepare and we helped others. After the storm everyone worked together…never saw that in New York….we still love it here …and we were heart broken for those who lost so much …ppl rebuilding …the human spirit at its best ….❤
My husband and I lived on Matlacha when Ian hit. We didn't get out in time because we couldn't find the cat. We managed to get trapped outside in the surge with no protection. A neighbor pulled a boat to where we were when the eye wall passed and got us to his place. I think the angels we had on us were the same as those around that family and their dogs. No worries, we now live in Iowa with the cat we couldn't find; my husband went back for her, and we're doing good. God Bless to that family on Fort Myers Beach and everyone else that survived.
glad to hear you moved on but that’s a sad thing to happen i’m sorry it happened hope things work out better for you in your new place!
Good luck to you. I never thought i would ever want to leave Ft.Myers. I would love to go now.
Omg
Rip cat🕊️🪦
@@MrPawsome18 I'm sorry, the cat is still alive. Sorry about the misunderstanding. Thank you though.
I won't forget the ones we lost💜 but I'm so happy for all of us that survived we went for a ride of a life time
Thank you for speaking about Englewood! It was probably one of the hardest hit areas for wind and BARELY got any mention in the news.
I had no idea and I'm from Lee County, but live in Hendry, so we weren't damaged directly. I think Ft Myers was the main focus, but seeing this video has shown me what ya'll endured as well. #FloridaStrong
Yeah I live in Fort Myers and didn’t hear much about englewood, port Charlotte or north port but y’all were the most direct hit.
it was horrible
First time seeing Ian from someone's view besides my own sadly, how the pain and fear still so alive all these months later. I hope all my fellow neighbors, community, and survivors are doing well on their journey to healing. Reading comments has made me realize I don't need carry the pain alone anymore
The woman in the red house with the dogs ….she AMAZED ME …SHE IS MY HERO saving herself and those dogs until her boyfriend showed up. God bless your family. You kept those babies alive …..🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🤗🤗🤗
You need to seek psychiatric help
So thankful you survived!! Very terrifying!! ❤🙏🏻🙏🏻
okay... so I found you from the Mississippi tornado March 2023, but this, this documentary is the best reason that NO ONE should stay with their house in a hurricane. We used to live in Galveston. While we lived there, I educated my children about why we don't stay with a house. We lived there in the aftermath of Hurricane Ike. We had moved there to rebuild houses (we own a construction company). So many houses were damaged and so many houses had never tasted the effects of a devastating hurricane and we heard so many stories. But your video highlights WHY you don't stay with a house. Thank you for a job well done.
Ian was worse than Ike.
I rode out Ian at home in Cape Coral, and it was one hairy experience. Much worse than Irma was, and the water was up to my house before it stopped rising. The street was a rapids full of wreckage going by fast. Power went out just after 4:00 and was out for 9 days. I came through it with very little damage, but I know some who lost everything in it. The good Lord was watching over me in that one.
For me Irma was worse in central FL. We had winds if category 1.
@@BadWeatherfreak lucky you, I’m jealous. Here in swfl it was the worst storm I’ve ever been through. I’ve been through a lot of bad storms and this video was hard for me to watch without getting emotional remembering this beast.
But I appreciate what this guys done, he really showed the impact and the people’s perspective that got hit the worst. Truly a great video that I wish was longer and had more views. People I work with lost their homes or was trapped due to flood waters or trees and I had part of our roof cave in from a tree uprooting and hitting our side. Two people in my neighborhood died. It was a nightmare
I didn’t get any flooding where I’m at in Cape Coral but I had no power for 28 days
Cape coral was hit so hard! Glad you got through that!
@@taurusquweenn Thanks Kat, we are all recovered now. That was a bad one, I went through Irma here too, and Ian was much worse.
This video was riveting and utterly tragic. Thank you for risking your own lives documenting a storm and bringing a glimmer of hope with the story of survival. This is a historic video of a storm which history will remember for generations.
Agreed, but the even better, crazier, historic video is the entire 10-hour uncut version from that probe (camera)! Its beyond awe-inspiring, especially now that I know there were ppl in that house...and they survived!!!! ua-cam.com/video/igsz7cqg-Zk/v-deo.html
I live on the eastern side of Florida, and the mixture of emotions is something we all felt. Gratitude it isn't us, but heartbroken that it's our neighbors to the west. I've went outside during Irma (Cat1) and the wind steals your breath and the energy is inredible. I cannot begin to imagine what this couple and their dogs went through. Their determination to stay alive is incredible.. Thank you for this video; it gives us a real time view into just how bad Ian was.
Thank you so much for these kind words. Very happy you guys also made it out safely from both with minimal impacts. Always a breathe of fresh air vs the constant scene of disaster
This was so well made. I just went through Milton here in Tampa. It was nothing like this
What an incredible story. Thank you for putting this together. I live a bit inland but seeing that house in initial clips sliding off the foundation was devastating. I had no idea they were inside with their dogs. I'm so glad they made it out alive. As a lifelong resident of SW Florida, that storm was the worst I've seen in my lifetime.
Thank you so much for watching and keeping this video and their story going! Very happy yall made it through the storm safely.
I lived on Bay Beach Lane on the south side of FMB. Walked the island the day after and knew our entire life had changed. We didn't just lose our home...we lost our entire community and way of life. Thanks for posting.
So glad to see Tod and Anette make it through this, and Anette is my new hero, despite her and Tod's life being at risk she wasn't going to abandon her pups. Never underestimate the power of a storm, get out of harms way when you can, but if you find yourself in the storm never underestimate yourself.
That family story is crazy.. imagine seeing your neighbors house floating next to yours and basically a freaking ocean in your front lawn.. inane.. i did not finish the video yet but i hope the dogs made it also and good thing they got prepared and was ready, it probably saved them
Incredible story man!!! I can bet some ppl would have just left the dogs behind to make sure they save themselves (which those type of ppl are terrible i know it definitely happens) but you guys are heros man and have REAL heart!!!! Smart thinking with the life vest and everything they did
My family and I were also on fmb during hurricane Ian. I’m so glad this couple and their dogs are okay. It was the most intense thing I’ve ever been through. We were able to have some neighbors kayak over since our house was up high. Prayers for fmb. ❤️🩹Great doc!
So glad y'all survived the storm! I can't imagine what it was like being there. Sending all the good vibes your way for a speedy recovery!
Lived at Board Walk caper behind Pinchers. Stayed also. 2nd story condo. Came 2 steps from entering. My area is at 15:51 time stamp by Getaway Marina. What an experience.
@@StormChaserAaronRigsbyp
@ohiostormchasers Hurricane ian flooded my street and almost destroyed my menorah because I didn't board my windows, I also didn't get sandbags but thank god, me and my family survived so did my home despite we payed money to repair the one broken window, but everyone in my house were scared especially me because I did my best to keep my family safe and my youngest child was crying when she saw the flooding and my son cried when he saw the horrific storm surge in fort myers
My house had no flooding
So glad this doc was made, people can never understand unless they went through it. I’ve been through every hurricane in FL since 1988 and I’ve NEVER experienced anything like this! 😔
I lost everything. Ian was bad, but I think it was made worse by the people messing with the weather, and, YES...that is a real thing!! I am angry as all hell!!!
@@PineIslandSeeds I completely agree! “Seeding” is a known and well documented thing, I also think all the recent tornadoes and bad weather back to back up North is caused by seeding as well.
@@meganarpasi morons
Moved to fort Myers 2 years ago. Lived here years ago. Experienced a few hurricanes. But nothing like IAN. That was brutal and we lost a lot of people here. It was one for the records. Thanks for sharing what it was like here.
Full time FMB resident that rode out the hurricane on my second floor of my home. We lost the first floor as it washed out into the back bay and the five paid off vehicles. Prayers for all families affected by Hurricane Ian.
Thank you for making this. I live 4 miles inland and rode out the storm. But I lost my business of 11 years on Fort Myers Beach. This whole thing has been heartbreaking on so many levels.
Thanks!
This was a wild, insane ride to watch. I honestly got tears in my eyes from imagining what they had to go through in those harrowing moments. Thank you for bringing their story and the intensity of this act of nature to everyone.
Wow!! I second this entire comment. I was in it but in North Port away from the ocean. This was a very powerful video for sure, their story is incredibly touching.
As an Ian survivor who lost his home and lovely golden retriever, I am realizing that my family wasn't just the one inside my home but the one that is in this country. I received so much support from people I didn't even know. Thanks to my brothers and sisters I was able to get back on my feet.
I’m so sorry about your dog ❤
Damn. This is harrowing footage Aaron & Max. I'm so grateful 🙏 you guys made it thru and your friends did too. Seeing this now for the first time has me gutted. I did IRMA relief in Ft Myers. Seeing it gone just did something to me on the inside. There's still people I've not heard from since that I stayed connected with after my journey there. 😢
Thanks for the link to Tod’s go fund me. That’s a valiant effort and was happy to help a fellow FL resident. That was one nasty storm and I’ve been through a few. Great job capturing its impact and providing footage that can help folks truly visualize what those beasts are like. Cheers
I have lived in Naples for 40 years and have had many Hurricanes hit our area.
Ian was different, and the storm surge predictions changed at 11:00 am.
The new mantra is run from the water and hide the wind.
When we drove away at 11:00 am the water was rising.
We could not return till the next day, till after the storm surge had subsided.
Excellent video that captures the fear and horror of storm surge.
Pffttt Naples didn’t get hit hard at all you got like 2 maybe 3ft surge get off your high horse Cape Coral fort Myers punta gorda and port charlotte got hammered
Maybe @HippyBobRoss should know his facts before calling people off there high horses..jerk.. During Hurricane Ian in 2022, Naples, Florida experienced a storm surge of over 9 feet, including the tide level, which was a new record for the city. The surge itself was at least 6.2 feet, which also set a record. I was there…
@HippyBobRoss yea naples can get flooded with just a couple hours of regular rain . I would know because I drove through like 4 ft of water in my truck leaving work
Amazing. I had seen the original viral video but didn't know the full story (except I recall reading that the house's occupant had made it) I'm so glad they're OK. Kudos to them for sharing their story to help others escape a similar ordeal. I have a fair number of followers on some social media channels, and I'm going to bookmark this so I can post it before big storms with expected surges.
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This is such a powerful video showing both the true strength of a strong hurricane and the destructiveness and danger of storm surge.
Also I think you were rash to go south - you could've been killed driving in the storm? - but unlike a lot of storm chaser videos it really shows how dangerous it is to be out, even for you guys.
I think some people who see weather channel and storm chaser videos think "well if they can stay I can stay" and don't realize - you're mobile in a way residents aren'. You scout and choose where to make a stand, plan escape routes, are monitoring the storm with wx experience and know when to bail, know what kinds of walls to get behind and on which side to avoid the wind, and have a storm shelter fsllbsck position. Homeowners are stuck in a house rhey don't want to leavd.
All of my hurricanes have been inland (Kate, Michael, Hermine, etc.) The most rain I have ever seen in my life was in Fay. But I have seen nothing like the surge from Ian.
My girlfriend and I were at lani kai about 3 weeks before Ian.
We have followed the whole storm coverage from day 1.
We are going back in 2024!!
Beautiful place and awesome people !
wife and I with 2 small dogs didnt chance it.....we live in Zone A....we packed up our Hyundai Tucson with as much stuff as we could and drove to Valdosta for a week at Super 8....then headed back home....our Davis Woods condo complex looked like a war zone!....there were cars on top of other cars stacked!...the stench!...it was hell!...although our 2nd floor condo wasnt a total wreck, we ended up living in Indiana until new AC and power was restored...that took 6 months!...we came back on April 15...much more fortunate than a lot of others who still are waiting for repairs to be done!...ill never forget this!
My whole immediate family lives here in Ft. Myers, there's 4 houses between us and we all rode out the storm. The news was telling us it was a Cat 3, and I've lived in FL all my life so I didn't really think about evacuating. Me and my stepbrother live more inland, nowhere near water, so both of us had minimal damage. My stepsister is in Cape Coral, she had pretty bad roof damage and all her well equipment was gone. My mother is the one that got hit the worst. She lives very close to the water, not the beach but a few canals. She called me mid hurricane yelling that they had to flee the house because the water was inches away from the front door. They were able to make it safe to my stepbrother's house. The next day she told me 'everything is gone!'. I was honestly expecting to find out the house was just gone. That wasn't the case, it was still there, but everything inside was ruined. The storm surge was about 5 feet, you could see the line of water was halfway up the walls. The floor was caked in mud, all the furniture was scattered around and filthy, the bedrooms were disasters. She lost a lot of things she had collected over the years, but at least the house itself was still standing. We've been through plenty of hurricanes but we've never been as impacted as we were after Ian.
The images before the storm are haunting, it’s like a lost world
Thank you for this, I watched it with my 14-year-old son and was troubled because I thought I watched the last moments of someone's life. I am so happy to know that they survived. I agree that this video needs to be shown to help people to understand the horror of storm surges.
This is the video that taught me how fast the storm surge is,OMG! And I live on East Coast and been through hurricanes but wow, unbelievable. That pink house and the fact they survived is simply a miracle. Most of all the guys who filmed it were sick they had witnessed what they knew had to be fatalities. Compassion. Today I have a neighbor who was victim to Ian, rescued from his home as he was found on kitchen counter, lost everything. And these 2 guys certainly gave us an education, thank you!!!
One of the top 3 videos about Ian. Luved through hurricane Andrew back in '92 and had our entire roof, in very well built home tear off. My brothers and sistera and I were crying like babies as my mom and dad brough the littlest mattresses in their bathroom where we lived to tell our story with countless others. Thanks guys
OMG!!! The images of that storm surge got me terrified and in awe at the same time. Thank God the people in that red house lived!! And you guys also!!
Found this video after surviving Helene. Man, what a great outcome to an ugly situation. Amazing video!
Respect to you all who made this possible LIVE AND DIRECT in the middle of the hurricane risking your lives...
Excellent coverage of this horrific storm. We were on FMB. It was as though a massive tornado came ashore & stayed, bringing 1/2 the Gulf w/ it. We were grateful to be alive... Of course the next day brought sapphire blue skies & achingly beautiful weather. It was a surreal backdrop to the post apocalyptic conditions around us. Stay strong FMB. Love you ❤
Thank you for this and I bet you have the best in storm footage out there especially the crazy surge video I’ve rewatched 20 times over
Just watching this now , as I lived through it on that day in Englewood, near the Walmart that was on the video you guys got great footage of what we couldn’t see with all our shutters down listing to all the breaking things around us out side for 9 hours of wind with no eye to let up , I actually got chills seeing this all over again. And re-living it through this video almost a year later , we are still repairing Englewood to this day and still have home repairs but at least I have a home , still a lot of down signs and store roofs off in our neighborhood , the the win. Dixie plaza by placida
I’m from Tampa and we had some major survivor guilt after for quite some time. I had fully expected Tampa to get the worst of Ian but it shifted course at the last minute.
from tampa as well, only lost power for 2 days we got lucky
It always does...Tampa hasn't been hit in decades.
Hurricanes love South and peninsula Florida.
Yes we are on Anna Maria and expected to be wiped out…..survivors guilt for sure
It's been just over 11 months now.... 40 years of living in FL and Ian is now the name that all others are judged against... The FMB/Sanibel/Matlacha areas will never be what they once were before that day... Thank you guys for putting out the story... hopefully it will save lives in the future.
Andrew and Katrina were worse
@@WendyHardy-wo6glNot even close..
@@SleepingSheep95 you need to research
Thanks for posting. I have often wondered if folks in the red house survived. If memory serves the man had much earlier parked his car across the street than went into the house. Never saw him come out - so glad he did.
Y’all did an awesome job capturing the wrath of Mother Nature with this storm. I gotta admit, hurricanes can be quite fascinating to watch although the devastation they cause is very sad.
I haven't watched any videos since I went through Hurricane Ian until now. I live 20 minutes from Fort Myers Beach. It was one of the top 5 devastating things I've ever been through
I love this video because it's the best video on the net right now of hurricane 🌀 Ian..
I got chills and tears watching this..
We rode out the storm in a small bathroom. You could hear the winds coming threw the pipes. It sounded like the rooftop was going to fly off. You could hear stuff slamming against the house.! It was definitely intense where we was at..
I got some photos and videos of right before the eye came and right after the storm.. We had hail from a tornado that was near by.! Surround what looked like a lake outside the house.! But thankfully we are alive 🙌 I feel bad for anyone who was in this storm...
This is not my first hurricane 🌀 I've been threw so many. This storm & Charlie was definitely storms to remember..
As a Cape Coral resident and going through this as my first hurricane I am bawling. I did see this video on tik tok, hoping they had evacuated. I am so glad they are okay. ❤❤️🩹❤️
We were new to Cape Coral as well…so happy they survived…she was a super hero …..keeping her babies alive for hours. …truly amazing ❤
I grew up on fort myers beach, and I fear it will never be the same 😢 looking back a year later, it still gives me anxiety and the chills. My mom was alone and stubborn and wouldn’t leave, her house is 5 miles from the gulf. She didn’t even put shutters up, it’s a miracle nothing happened. Thankfully, she was fine but I could not get into contact with her for over a day, and I was seconds away from calling search and rescue before she called me, and I burst into tears. She said she was hiding in her closet for a whole day and was afraid to leave. Thank you for covering these storms. Stay safe everyone. Hurricanes are no joke.
Thankful they made it. I cannot imagine what they went thru. Being in the center of the state was bad enough for me.
This is crazy.. i seen a lot of hurricane footage and hurricane Ian footage and this is definitely one of the best ones
I moved to Cape Coral Florida from DFW Texas, I moved here just 2 months before Hurricane Ian, this was the first Hurricane I have ever been through in my life.
Was just south of Ft. Myers, absolutely insane storm! I had just moved to Florida from up north in Michigan and i'd never experienced anything like it, it's good to see it from someone elses view, thanks for making this, as most people from out of state don't even know about Ian!
Cape Coral resident here. The day ian hit was the most terrifying day of my entire life. When water kept rising all around me, that feeling of panic I will never forget. Considering moving after living here since 1996.
Hi - curious if you ended up leaving the area. Would not blame you one bit!
Sorry I’m late just having a look back at all of this, so well made dude
Hurricane ian survivor here. I remember the day before the hurricane hit, we were happy we had no school for a week. In case of flooding we put sandbags in our backyard, the winds the day the hurricane hit were devastatingly high. Rest in peace to anyone who died in hurricane Ian.
It was the scariest day evening and night of my life. Lots of people thought it was going to be like Irma but Irma but Ian was so destructive. I live in cape coral. By the time we knew it was coming straight to us alot of people were already going to Miami and weather was already getting bad. My wink news app at one time showed winds saw 116 mph. Extreme wind warnings for almost 9 hours. So sad so many lost so much. Thank God my area missed the surge.
My family also thought it was gonna be like Irma where it would die down to a 2 or 3 by the time it reached us, and boy were we wrong. We got complacent since we weren't hit too hard by past storms so we really weren't expecting to get stuck in the eye wall for around 5 hours or more. Still can't believe we survived it.
@@snicksss yes. I won't ever stay for anything above 3. Too close. My sliders were actually moving because the wind was so strong. Thank God we are all ok.
@@melissakline8738 Yeah. My front door was like being pushed in by the wind so we had to put stuff in front of it so it didn't burst open. I'm actually shocked my lanai cage survived cause it's very rickety and rusted at the nails.
Also in Cape Coral, and also thought it was going to be similar to Irma. I don’t think anyone knew it was going to hang over us for so long. Will never forget it.
@@Leg239 me either. Extreme wind warnings for hours! We even got the animal cages out in case we got the surge. Crawl up on the truck then onto the flat garage room. And we have a higher flat spot at the very tops of the house for us and the dogs and cats. Praying we don't get anything close to that again!! Glad you were safe!
Ive lived in florida my entire life, SWFL to be a little more specific. my family managed to escape the same day hurricane ian hit, we barely had time to pack and we drove to my aunts home. it was terrifying but wasn’t as bad, i knew people had it worse than my family. when i returned home, my neighbors had sunshine in their living room. luckily last year we had our roof replaced ( maybe repaired? i don’t know the difference to be honest ) and that truly saved our home. our home had very little damage shockingly, and i’m extremely glad my family got out when we did and that my neighbors lived.
So happy and amazed that they survived with their furbabies…how she held on with her furbabies is incredible…the strength she had shows the strength of the human spirit and her will to survive and save her babies. I totally get it! My heart goes out to her. I have no doubt this changed their lives. Your dogs are beautiful and they know what you did for them. God bless you all. Great job to the storm chasers who got this footage for the world to see how amazing they were ❤️❤️❤️❤️….May life be great to all ! ❤️🎉
My dad lives in Ft Myers and he rode out this storm and was one of the lucky ones who wasn’t flooded out. He still said even tho he was fine definitely one of the worst storms he’s seen in a long time.
Incredible and well done documentary!
I saw the probe video first and the guy walk back up the stairs to the red house. Once the storm surge totally took the red house away I was so praying for a miracle that the guy made it somehow. Thanks for sharing this update and to know that both he, his lady, plus the dogs made it out alive! What a true miracle!!! Thanks for sharing
I evacuated at 5am the day of the hurricane. The whole day before CCPD was driving through my neighborhood telling us to leave. 3 of my neighbors stayed and said it was the worst hurricane ever and they will never stay again. There are still 2 houses with tarped roofs on my street almost 2 years later. Took me almost a year to repair my house with NO help from anyone or any agency except my homeowners/hurricane insurance. My home is now for sale and I am leaving SWFL for good
If you wanna avoid this stuff, you gotta leave Florida and just don't stay on the east coast. Go up north but don't go too far West cause you'll just get stuck in Tornado Alley and it'll get torn up again.
Wow! All I can say. Just Wow. Thank God you guys made it. We came down to our place inland Fort Myers. We were fine but so saddened to see the unbelievable damage to Fort Myers Beach.
Excellent footage of this powerful storm. My family and I stayed in our home during Ian. I sat in our walk in closet and prayed 🙏. Horror experience to live through 😮
Will you ride out another big storm ?
@@townbizness8800 my friend, and I rode out Ian in my house on the water in Placida. It was frightening yes, but I would ride the next storm out because to me evacuating turns out to be more trouble than help. A lot of people that Steve said if they hadn’t stayed, they may have lost their house.. so it’s kind of a darned if you do and darned if you don’t situation. But whatever happens to me, I want it to happen in my home..
After being in port Charlotte for Ian I can say my entire life in Florida was changed in a day. 176 mph sustained winds with 200 mph gusts truly is devastating, but what FMB went through is unabashed destruction. I will take 200 mph winds every time over the pure destructive power that water has. We visited FMB 9 days after the storm when my work was caught up to a point of being able to have more than 4 hours off in a day. And what we saw and felt was heartbreaking, too many Floridians like myself have become too comfortable when it comes to hurricanes, combine that with the piss poor forecasting and it reeked havoc on a community that was not truly prepared. Im glad you guys put a documentary like this together and wish more eyes would see it.
Ian didn't have 176 mph sustained, Andrew in 1992 had 175 and 200 mph gusts. No storm since has made landfall here with those winds.
@@Trahzy considering the marina reported those winds, their were absolutely 176 mph sustained winds and gust up to 212 mph I mean it not like I didn’t have a tree on top of my house from the storm or anything. They refused to upgrade it to a cat 5 due to the impact on insurance companies. Google Eldred marina hurricane Ian.
I lived in Clearwater when this thing was coming. The night before landfall, it was forecast to go right over my house I’ve never boarded up or evacuated for a storm, but this one had us ready to go.
I was in an evac zone well wasn’t until ccpd came by saying to leave but we had no where to go. Thank the lord he protected me and my family through it. Born and raised in this area and been through Andrew, Charlie and others and nothing compared to ian I will never do this again. So sad to see all my childhood memories gone in the span of 10hrs
Thank Lord and thank you OHIO Storm chasers for your probe and video. I am so happy to see a happy ending to storm surge video. God is good and surely was with this family.
Hey guys, almost an entire year later, I can't believe this. Guys, I love watching natural disasters and I came upon a video at work by chance where I saw a fast forwarded video of a storm surge in Fort Myers from Ian. I was intrigued and decided to follow links to this video, when I noticed a man entering his home. I couldn't keep my eye off it. Silently praying at some point he got out.
I found a 9 hr upload of this and continued watching when I went home. Only to find that I never saw him leave. I was devastated. 4 days later while going through videos of the record breaking rains in NY, I came upon this video and to my astonishment, the man is alive. Praise God. You can't imagine how sad I was seeing his house float away and never having seen him left. For a moment, I thought he had left without my knowledge, cause no way could someone survive this.
Guys, your camera did an AMAZING job capturing this. And like Tod said, leave it out there so ppl can see the dangers of storm surges. We are never really told of storm surges and we don't take them seriously.
I was born in 1979, 2 weeks before Hurricane David struck my Caribbean island Dominica. Then 6 yrs ago, Hurricane Maria destroyed the land again. So anything I learn about storms interests me.
Thanks for your video. May God bless your work.❤
Definitely sharing this video. Good luck with this season everyone.
Thanks so much!
Awesome work!! A great job! I’m glad you came through it safely.
Thanks so much for the kind words and thanks for watching!
I've lived here all my, since 1960 and have have made it through a many storm. The one I thought worst Charlie. Until Ian.
God that end was so heartwarming
Great footage. Thank you for sharing. We live on Pine Island in northern Bokeelia. Unfortunately, our St James City neighbors took the brunt of the storm with the surge. We are Pine Island Strong!
First time I’ve seen this particular video. Still can’t get thru this without tears. I’ve only been living in Fla. 2 years. Never dreamed this would happen. The strength of the people devastated by this is still amazing. 💙
living in Florida or anywhere that's prone to Hurricanes you're expecting to get situations like this
I like in South Carolina which is also a Hurricane prone state but I live far away from the coastline
the only thing we've got to worry about is heavy rain and strong winds from Hurricanes and Tropical Storms
I pray we NEVER see on like Ian again.... completely and utter DEVASTATING
Great Work, Guys!! Thank you for your documentary and the amazing survival story. Great Footage.
I'm at 15:29 and you just called it Ft Myers Proper. I hope that gains traction. I've never, ever heard any part of Ft Myers called "proper", but I feel like I still know exactly which neighborhood you're headed to. "Ft. Myers Proper" should be anything south of downtown... from here on.
Went right through the eye. The back of the storm was insane.
I lived in Fort Myers about 3 miles from the house that got washed away. After Ian we put our home for sale and moved back to Michigan. I always thought it would be fun to go through a hurricane but after Ian I said never again. It was horrible.
Such a good story and such is a lot to learn from super job guys
I remember watching the snapchat stories of a few friends in the area. It was insane to see it in the perspective as the flooding and destruction occured.
💯 the best hurricane Ian video 💯
Live in North port just over the bridge on ponce de Leon on the dry side thank God
Amazing video❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Yo!! I live here and this story needs to get around! You guys are wild
That's our goal! Really hope we get momentum going and get this viral to help fund their fundraiser and help get them on their feet!
Wow this made me cry because I lost my dad bc of this and my dog I got for my birthday and my whole family needed to go the hospital very injured you guys are wild for doing this and my moms job was destroyed and our house stay safe y’all
Stay strong man 💪
Watching this video sinks in the fact this could happen anywhere, any coastal community can be destroyed by a storm like this.
I found the 9 hour video just by accident and have had it playing on my big screen TV all day while I work on my computer. It's only 3 hours in and the house is still there. (I peaked and know how it ends.) Then I found this video which tells the story while I'm still watching it unfold. I'm so glad all 4 of them made it out alive. Tod is right. Everyone who ever thinks about riding out a hurricane should be forced to watch this.
Lived through 12 hurricanes....myself and other floridians will keep doing it.....
This is our home.....
We always rebuild
lol its not your home if you have no money to rebuild. Insurance companies are leaving in droves and if you have a mortgage and you lose insurance coverage you are in default if you don’t get a policy in 30 days.
You would think you would have shoes on during something like this...Must have been so scary! My family went in after hurricanes in Florida and Texas...we just seen the aftermath...so sad and devastating! Glad y'all made it through...my heart goes out to the families that were effected
Wearing shoes in Florida? Ha
My wife use to manage a doctors office in Fort Myers. Just in her office alone, 4 patients have never been found, who decided to stay and ride out the storm close to Fort Myers beach. Makes you wonder how many bodies are still laying in the mangroves.
I was on the east coast in Vero Beach. We had 3 hurricanes in 2 years and I swear for 65mph where we were felt like a cat 2. The energy in that storm was unreal
Wow! Incredible footage. ❤
Great video! Awesome work!
Thanks so much for watching!
Paradise has it's cost too. Been in Florida on the Gulf all my life . I've seen it all , been in storm surge on the beach - 30 ft. waves in the Gulf , 130 mph winds , The scariest is the storm surge of a Hurricane. The Storm Chasers did the video in the Mobile home park , which got leveled
These folks certainly learned a BIG lesson that day…the hard way!
Happens a lot when the strong ones come. Unfortunately.
Lived in Central Florida from 1984 to 2005,sat through a few of these.
And the storm just went on and on and just would not STOP!!!