Hurricane Ian Washes Away Ft. Myers Beach FL - UNCUT VERSION
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- Опубликовано: 6 июн 2024
- As we approach the one year anniversary of Ian and enter another hurricane season, I felt it was important to finally release the full, unedited surge probe video from Ft. Myers Beach. Please use this to educate yourself and others on what the full evolution of a catastrophic, 15 ft. storm surge really looks like.
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The video begins just before 10am and ends at 7:40pm on September 28, 2022. The camera probe is placed 15 feet up on a concrete pole at Estero Blvd and Ave C, facing northwest. I truly have not watched every second of the footage, so viewers be cautioned, there could be unknown disturbing footage. Here are a few key moments to point out…
27:30 - First sign of storm surge
29:33 - Resident of pink house moves car, goes back inside
1:04:20 - Gust blows door open on pink house
2:26:00 - Surge reaches top of fence
4:18:38 - Pink house collapse into water with residents inside (they all survived)
8:40:00 - Surge fully recedes
9:28:00 - Eerie red sunset
I remember watching y'all put out at least 1 other probe. How many in all? Hopefully the weather Gods will spare us in Morehead City,NC this year. Stay safe
How about a raw stock footage of Hurricane Ian in Florida
Do we know if anyone in the pink home survived?
@@kurttrzeciak8326 wondering the same ):
@@kurttrzeciak8326 Miraculously, both occupants and their dogs survived, there's a documentary about it on my channel with interviews.
This might be the best storm surge footage of all time. I cannot recall another video that captures the absolute scale of what happened in the way this video does. Incredible.
Can anyone else taste the salt water!?
@@pandarescueyes
Agreed!! This is THE BEST storm surge footage, I've ever seen 🌊
Man, I agree, that is basically a tsunami and I never thought of it that way before. It's truly terrifying!
Not saying there better but go ck out hurricane track. Mark suddthe probably miss spelled last name. He was first to put camera in path of storm unmanned they had it in a Isuzu rodeo and strapped it in the sand threw hurricane Katrina that is the easiest I believe anyone ever done this and he’s done it on many more. With better and better unmanned cameras
Everyone warns about storm surges but no one can understand how dangerous they are. Thank you for your video.
I’ve lived in the coast all my life (I’m in Charleston, SC), and when Hugo happened I was only 6. I know about the surge, how it happens, etc. but never have I witnessed such a video that captures just how fast and dangerous it is! This is incredible and news sources should have this at the ready to get residents in surge/flood proned areas. There are even maps available in regards to which zone you’re in (like 2, being very likely). My home is very safe from surge and flooding, however I’d essentially be on an island. Hugo was terrifying. If there’s anything above a 2 headed my way I’m gone ✌🏼 I’ll never put my kids through any experience like that. Ever.
Well, that's Republicans they don't believe in anything , so they will experience the strongest hurricane since they won't listen to the news. Just to give them warnings cause once the storm hits, no emergency vehicles won't save no one. Once the Strom has passed first,people should know how bad hurricanes are in Florida, but they always think it won't be bad or think they can go through the storm and let it pass which I'd very risky to do.
I remember seeing the pictures of boats and yachts thousands of them about 100 foot high pile caused by the storm surge of Hugo, if you didn’t see the pictures you wouldn’t believe it
@@danielwymer1580 I was 7 when Hugo happened and we were actually in Disneyworld at the time and were going home to east TN a few days after it happened and my dad wanted to drive through Charleston to see the damage and I remember thinking how crazy it was with all the stuff destroyed there. It tore up jack for sure. Oddly enough I'm gonna be back in Disneyworld this Friday and I was curious as to how Idalia might impact that trip but I think Orlando might just be going to get some rain. This video right here is absolutely horrifying. I've always wondered what the ocean might look like during a hurricane and it's definitely not something I'd want to experience first hand!
@@SimpleManGuitars1973 With hurricane Ian, the death toll on Fort Myers Beach was over 1000, The illegals are not counted , official death toll about 20 people. Huge numbers of illegals working in South Florida and they won’t go to the Hurricane shelters for fear of being sent back to Mexico or wherever
I think this is the best hurricane footage ever taken. I grew up in Florida and have seen a bunch of hurricanes, but never any footage like this. This should be used to educate people about the danger of storm surge, and why they need to evacuate when they are warned too.
Yea. And that poor man in the orange house. He never came out
Watch ohiostormchasers it’s who recorded this video
Truly truly amazing. At first I kept fast forwarding thinking surely the water was about to start going down and it just kept getting worse.
@nathanbrownmolotov8697 - I happened to stumble across this footage of Hurricane Ian on Ft. Myers Beach, but I don't understand where the camera was positioned (almost 10 hours):
ruclips.net/video/igsz7cqg-Zk/видео.html
@@CalebAchsah I found the location using google maps. The camera was located on the concrete power pole at the entrance to the beach parking at 26.45135, -81.95066 The person said the camera started getting splashed when the storm surge got up to 15 Feet. So that Camera was mounted just about that. Once the camera got splashed they lost the video about 30 seconds later.
RIP to the “Avenue C “street sign. You held on like a hero- went down fiercely fighting and doing your duty to let all know what street you represent. 🙏🏼 🌧️ 🚏
That poor guy who went inside the building that floated away ughhh!
Thse comment a trip loll
Thse comment a trip loll
I messed up- I should have reminded everybody Avenue C really lit up a room with its presence and was loved by all who came across it. A good one lost too soon.
@@jaxong.2701 remember the islanders who insisted on staying during Ike died?
Have you ever heard of Hurricane Ike from 2008?
Shout out to the 3 palm trees to the left... True representation of Florida,you can knock a few leaves off our surface but in the end of every storm we will always be left standing...
at the cost of unconceivable amounts of money
@@bluepilltaker you must be from up north... You represent the ones who's always trying to still Florida's joy, you represent the water that tried to knock those 3 trees down,who eventually had to go away after we were left "standing"... #Florida strong
@@w_t_v_s Florida’s “Joy” wow you people are the most entitled people on earth
It also shows you WHY palm trees grow like that
@@w_t_v_sBut what happens when the water stays? You do know you are on a sinking ship right?
What blows me away (pun not intended) is how fast it went from "here's a street" to "oh, we're in the middle of the ocean now."
Being 20 minutes away from this and not getting no flooding is beyond me. Thank you for this epic video!!!
My sister lives about 10 minutes away (like 2 miles inland), and they got 4 feet of surge. A neighbor of theirs drowned in his car a block away when a wall of water hit him. Violent 4' wave can easily flip a car.
This was last year. So you wouldn’t get not no flooding from Ian this year. 😂
@@QuattroZack1 *not getting any flooding. You know what I meant. I'd like to give my most sincere apologies to the youtube English teachers who have no life 🫡🤦♂️😘
@DianaDeLuna Sorry to hear that. There was areas that were inland but close to the rivers and got flooded out. It was a sad sight to drive down some streets and see people's whole life's sitting in piles of trash on the side of the road.
@@cfcheather26 good observation 👌
I live just 2 streets behind this camera. Thank you for releasing the footage with no “fluff”.
PS that pink house HAD 2 people in it at the start of the video
I was lucky enough to trust my gut and leave.
I lost everything but my life
Had ??😮
@@user-ig8vm1ns4tyea they survived barely. Which is why you don’t stay.
actually how
@@jen-a-purr
I saw the interview with the couple in that house and it wasn’t easy to watch him park across the street and enter the house in this video.
I can't believe they stayed in that fragile wood house right by the beach knowing a hurricane is coming. People have no common sense, no wonder so many die.
That was freaking insane. It’s crazy how the ocean surges up like that and then it’s gone. That red sunset was eerie indeed. Wow! Amazing footage! 👍🏼
It's hard to fathom that it's even possible, I hope this video helps people truly understand storm surge and what it can do.
@@MaxOlsonChasing we can only hope they can understand. I’m not near a beach but I can understand the power of Mother Nature. It’s out of our control. I hope people can be smart and get out in time. Homes can be replaced, people cannot.
Red sky at night sailor's delight. I am a lineman and worked storm restoration here last year and it didn't rain for the 2 weeks we were there. One of the worst storms we were on for sure.
The ocean turned into a river 😂😂😂😂
@MaxOlsonChasing I would definitely send this to the Weather Channel. If they time lapsed it and did some slower footage in-between, it demonstrates not only the surge, but the hazards of debris, collapse, and the changing wind direction throughout the duration. It would be so much better than their computer generated graphics of surge and make it so much more urgent
I grew up in pre-Katrina New Orleans and watched many hurricanes from my dad's office on the 51st floor of the Shell building. The inch thick glass in the floor to ceiling windows protected my bird's eye view of the entire city while I watched for hours as high winds and flood waters attempted to destroy it. I thought I'd never see anything that gave me a better view of the destructive power of a hurricane but I am still picking my jaw off the floor as I write this. The perspective of the camera and the length of time that was documented (before, during and after) makes this extremely powerful footage. The fact that the recording equipment was not lost is itself remarkable. Thank you for sharing this. Hopefully it can help save lives in the future. Thank you!
This video is by far the best in storm surge of a powerful hurricane. I'm 61 years old and have never ever seen that kind of water damage. It's like the entire ocean came into a regular everyday city street. Thank you so much for a very educational experience in what a powerful storm surge can do.
Exactly, "the entire ocean came into a regular everyday city street".
They should show this video on TV before every hurricane season start . BEST VIDEO EVER !!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks Max, this is an important teaching tool and even a historical artifact. Up there with the videos from 2004 showing everyone for the first time what a tsunami looks like. Amazing that at this level of surge, it doesn’t even look like a flood any more - it just looks like the ocean.
Sorry- But that is not what a tsunami looks like. There is no wind generally with a tsnami and no gusts driving the surface waters. There may in many cases be no rain or wind either. A Tsnami is generally a sudden wave up wave arriving with out the days and days of warning when a hurricane hits. A major disturbance in the earth's crust undersea water jolts the sudden rise in sea level resulting in wave after wave rolling in. It's appearance is vastly different. I recommend seeing some videos of a tsnami before trying to inform all that the above looks like a tsnami. A Tsnami looks some what closer to a tidal wave. But it is not a tidal wave as it is not tidal. LOL-Had I not seen the Japanese Tsnami -I may have believed you as I would not have known the difference. But once you know the difference then the difference is easy to spot.
@@MikeGreenwood51 I never said this video showed a tsunami or looked like a tsunami. I said the significance of the video was comparable to that of the tsunami videos of 2004.
@@MikeGreenwood51 go off man
Dumass😂
@@MikeGreenwood51 he didn't say this is what a tsunami looks like; he was comparing it to the importance of the videos from 2004 when people saw footage of a tsunami for the first time. Not to an actual tsunami.
One minute you are in the relative safety of a building. The next minute that building is in the middle of the ocean. Absolutely terrifying
Did that man not come back out of the red house? I see the stairs still standing.
@@kimtanguay6901 He had to have drowned if he was in that little red home. Horrible way to go!!!
It was a man, his wife and their dog. Somehow they all survived by clinging to trees. Crazy...
@@High-AlphaI feel bad for the dog!! To have to live with someone dumb enough to stay there, knowing.
It's insane not to have evacuated. How does fear of the ocean not set in is beyond me
This is incredible footage...never seen anything like it before. I don't know how you did this or how the camera just kept on recording, but well done. Extremely powerful and educational for anyone who may question evacuating during a storm this intense.
Watch ohiostormchasers it’s who recorded this video
Truly incredible when your family is in this house. Idiot.
Absolutely incredible, and Extremely terrifying footage! Im happy to hear the residents in the pink house somehow survived!!
Is that pink?
They jump out at some point. I'm trying to spot them rn.😅
@@andy31793bruh… pink red whatever…. 🤡 shyt
@@andy31793Yes, a reddish pink shade.
I noticed at the start that there was double garage doors open in that house...then later they were closed..and i thought oh No , there are people in there...How DID they Live Thru That !!!
I was on holiday in Miami from Scotland whilst this was going on, it's difficult to comprehend the devastation and destruction mother nature is capable of without videos like this.
Around the 5 mimute mark a black car (mazda 3?) Made a left turn & parked. Seeing that car driven for the last time got me.🥹. And just like that, that persons vehicle is written off if they survived to care about it!
@@willc5512 the owner lives in the pink house
Just because Mother Nature's fury can now be recorded, doesn't make her any less dangerous for cheesing her off.
If you`re from bonnle Scotland you must be used to a lot of rain! 😄
Spring is a better time. Forget August and September. October never seems to have many storms anymore. For quite a while storms predominately hit the east coast, now it hits the gulf side more.
Wow....just impressive. All of it. Am I the only one impressed at this camera? Nearly 10 hours straight, no telling how many Gigabytes of data, excellent battery life (or supplemental power), and lastly - the structure it was mounted to (utility pole)? Very impressive!
Those beautiful palm trees 🌴 can withstand so much! It’s amazing.
My mom's Washingtonia palms (near 100 ft. tall) were leaning over sideways, or at 45 degrees, during hurricane Charley.
4:36:00-6:36:00 people who stayed endured 2 hours of hell on Earth; a teaching moment for anyone who considers staying ahead of a major storm. Also a good teaching moment for developers looking to build in hurricane prone landscapes.
And pretty much universally the people who stay and undergo these incredibly scary and stressful experiences say they would NEVER do it again, and they advise others to never make the mistake that they did.
Yes dont build or live near water!
They're lucky they survived. It's INCREDIBLY DUMB to stay when a huge hurricane is coming and you live next to the ocean. They should have evacuated like any sane person.
@@GeorgeFitness-yo8blI’ve got family in the outer banks of NC. They practically live right on top of the water, there’s a dock right at the end of my grandpa’s street. Almost all of the houses directly on the coast or out on Cedar Island or Harkers Island are built a good story off the ground, because they also get some major hurricanes, and the risk of storm surge and flash floods in bad weather is very real there. Everyone living in places like that in the banks evacuates inland regardless because all it takes is some good surge and those barrier islands are gone. If you’re going to live on the coast, and from someone in Florida who’s lived a half hour from the beach my whole life with family in one of the most idyllic coastal towns in the country, at the very least be smart about it. Make sure you go into it knowing that living on the water means getting the worst of storms like this and get the hell out when they come. I was in the OBX a week ago and a tiny squall came through, and that tiny squall wasn’t so tiny standing on the beach in 50mph wind gusts.
The man who goes into the house at 29:50 …
The continuous surge is absolutely incredible. You never see this on news channels. Sorry for all lives lost and valuable possessions.
That is what killed Ft Myers Beach for sure was the surge and the fact the storm just SAT on us lord knows i'll never forget it and how beyond grateful I was it died down early enough for us to get to a safer place since the roof of our house had fully caved in on me and my brother and father yeah we definitely learned our lesson that day NEVER AGAIN
This is probably the most exact recollection of what I saw when Hurricane Katrina hit my town that sat on the MS/LA state line in the southernmost point of Hancock county. This was chilling to sit through.
Wow, you must have been very close to where the eye of Katrina made landfall! Everybody remembers the flooding in New Orleans, but the hell and destruction that the Biloxi/Bay St. Louis area of Mississippi should not be forgotten either. As a Hurricane Andrew survivor, I can certainly empathize with you.
Just skipping from timestamp to timestamp shows how powerful this storm was. It's crazy
I know I'll sound weird but I always feel sorry for the poor trees! 🌳 😢🌳
Oh yeah-I bet you fell sorry for the tree fellers also. Those trees have thousands of years of evolution. They survived when a million other trees didn't. Many other trees would just be snapped by the water pushing them. But those amazing Palms give, duck and dive. Have a nice day.
Me too!
I was thinking of all the poor critters caught up in all this.
Me too! Palm trees look like drunken hags after a hurricane!
I feel bad for the two dogs in that pink house. The couple that lived in the pink house were IGNORANT and didn't heed the required evacuation..... If the owners wanted to play dumb, and take their chances on riding out one of the worst hurricanes, in the absolute epicenter of devastation, fine by me...... But the fact that they let their dogs go through that BS.
This was absolutely incredible! To see the storm surge completely unfold like that was mind blowing. Thank you for this amazing footage! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
The red house literally vanished 💀
Fr✋🏻
Fr stop-
And the trees darkened 💀
the best storm surge footage of all time. what an incredible force of nature. I was on the edge of my seat. There are no words for this. How quickly that water came up, and how bravely that red house in the foreground tried to hold on. But in the end it lost that battle. All the best to those people there, especially because on August 16 of this year 2023, they again received so much water. I pray for them.
Barrier islands are formed by storm events. Anyone wishing to buy or build real estate on a barrier island should first watch this incredible video! This footage should also be used in meteorology classes. A very valuable teaching tool! Thank you for filming and posting this video, it's a wonderful contribution to weather science.
This video is actually a stark reminder for us people who live on the barrier islands. Im just glad I live on the East side of FL we never seem to get much here in the way of storm surge. We are just in the peak time of the hurricane season so my neighbors keep safe and as we say...Hunker down heh
Far too many barrier islands along the Gulf Coast and Atlantic Coast of the USA have been heavily developed. With hindsight, this should never have happened - they could have been used for recreation, with minimal structures that could be destroyed by storms without much financial loss, and without any homes or substantial businesses allowed. But it's several hundred years too late to change what's there now.
Absolutely incredible and historic footage of such a devastating storm. Thank you so much for uploading the full version!
I grew up & raised in ft Myers/ naples area literally for 27 yrs. This video got me tears 😢 unbelievable.
I will never ever underestimate another Storm Surge again. 🙏 just wow thanks for this epic footage.
The term "a picture is worth 1000 words" rings even more true when it comes to video. If anyone on Earth ever wondered what the full ferocity of hurricane/typhoon storm surge is like, let them watch this video for a taste. Easily the best example of storm surge ever recorded on video, this terrifying footage should be nominated for one of the documentary-category Academy Awards. Many compliments and thanks to the people who placed this camera and produced this awesome video.
My dog and I survived category 5 Hurricane Andrew in the bathtub of my first story apartment in 1992. As the building came apart around me, I was blissfully unaware of storm surge. Thankfully the surge never came in Andrew, or I certainly would not be writing this today. God bless the people of Fort Myers Beach.
Dear Lord! This deepened my whole perception of the absolute horror and devastation that a hurricane causes! I knew hurricanes were a big deal but until this video I never knew just HOW big and dangerous they really can be. I kind of never took them as serious as other types of storms/natural disasters. This seems like a tornado on a much bigger and slower scale. AND a tsunami on a much slower scale. Crazy!
Believe me I've practically grown up dealing with hurricanes from the the four conssecutive hurricanes that spawned Charlie all the way to this behemoth but yeah I learned after that one never again if it goes beyond a three I'm gone Ian was too dam much especially on the heels of so much prior to him what made even more heartbreaking for me and my brother is that dang storm took my late mothers highlander it wasn't savable but my brother got to say goodbye to my mom through her car
29:50 The person who drives up, parks their car, goes into their home…but the car never left. Did…did we just see someone in their final moments? The house is completely washed away at the end of the video…it is so sad and heartbreaking to see. Did they leave? Did someone pick them up before the storm surges?
EDIT: someone posted a similar comment and found out they survived - details are in that thread.
They chose to stay with their two dogs! How insane and selfish! I hope the dogs survived!
@@theresedavis2526 ...seriously...? 🤨
@@theresedavis2526 Yes, thankfully both dogs survived too.
@@theresedavis2526 how is that selfish to stay with your dogs?
@@theresedavis2526not selfish but stupid and ignorant
I watched this when you first posted it back when Ian hit. It blew me away and still does. You can never understand till you see it. Amazing video and I hope you capture alot more like this of weather. ❤
29:34 - The man who lived in the second floor apartment of the red house drives his car to park it in the lot across the street, while his wife / girlfriend waves to him from their porch. This attempt to save the car from the arriving storm surge was sadly inadequate, to say the least. This couple astonishingly managed to survive this disaster, as their home was completely destroyed, which of course is shown in this video at 4:18:36. The windows and door have long since been blown in by the wind at this point, and after repeated hits by waves, the front wall of the house finally gives way and the entire second story detaches and is pushed away to the right.
I was wondering what happened to him.
@@looselipssinkships6543Oh wow! Thanks for that update and so happy to hear they all survived!
Oh my god. Thank you! I saw the guy walk into the house, but never leave and just felt my heart sink when the surge was above the house and it was gone at the end. The idea of witnessing someone in their final moments…
I do have one question concerning the car. Did they find it? If so, where? I hope they had good insurance on it. I am glad to hear that both them and their pets made it out
@@looselipssinkships6543I'm so happy that the dogs survived! If those idiots wanted to commit suicide, there are easier ways! They should've never placed those poor animals in such a dangerous situation!
I truly enjoy watching videos like this. It gives you a sense of what people go through in a hurricane. Great footage.
This was amazing and should be watched by everyone in storm surge areas, then they just might evacuate and take greater care of their lives! Thanks so much for sharing!
Dear God how did the pink house residents survive? This footage should be more widely published to demonstrate what a storm surge can do. This is horrific and eye opening. Thank you for posting it!
@@AlanaMarie-vj4tpyes they did. Bet they were screaming the whole time. And the least of the dudes worries was parking his car across the street. Leaving would be a better option.
Did he survive? I never seen him come out.
Dont know. Good question.
@@Godschild49
@@Godschild49 watch the documentary there is a interview of them explaining how him and wife and dogs survived
@@Godschild49 They didn't come out, but they survived.
Just drove down this street last week and if you didn't know the building was there before, you wouldn't know it even existed. For example, Hooters was just a few yards behind this camera and there is absolutely nothing there now except sand and some hardly visible foundation. Almost every wooden structure on FMB has been completely wiped out. The majority of Highrise condos down Estero Blvd (this street) are still surrounded by chain-link fencing. Not a tasteless plug, but my channel has several videos if you want to see more.
The high rise all the way on the left, was it condemned?
@@pangalactictuber it hasn't yet. That's the Lina Kia Resort. Ground floor wiped out and second floor has huge damage. They are working on the resort, but I can only guess if the property will be condemned or not.
Correct name is Lani Kai, which the name of a 1920s subdivision on the island of Oahu, Hawaii.
I sped up the video bc it's seemingly 9 hours, and it was almost unbelievable to watch. This video will be a part of the history of hurricane Ian and will live on RUclips for generations. Great video.
Totally awesome footage of this Hurricane and it's damage. Thanks for going to the trouble of filming it. A real eye opener!
I want to thank you for this footage. I always came to Ft. Meyers with my family and in the winter time we always stayed here, but in the campgrounds. Watching this is the only way I can wrap my head around it being destroyed 😢😢😭😭😭😭
I lived 5 miles off from here and when Ian hit. Our town is still trying to rebuild and it’ll never be the same. So many lives lost as they could not give out an accurate estimate due to failure of evacuation notices. All of our barrier island such as fort myers beach, sanible, captiva, and st James city are completely gone. In land we have minimal signage and basic street lights now most roofs have never been repaired and many are still blue trapped. Thank you for sharing this video of my beautiful town as we still pick up the pieces a year later ❤️
DeSantis is a piece of work! Vote him out!
Wow, thanks for posting this! I live in Ft. Myers and work on Sanibel. I saw the aftermath of it all, but never the surge from start to finish. I know so many people that have lost everything, this is incredible and heartbreaking knowing how many lives were lost!
I have never seen anything like this. I’m in shock. It’s something everyone needs to watch.
Have you not seen any footage from the 2011 Japanese (earthquake and) Tsunami? Makes this surge look like a storm in a tea cup.
This took 4.5 hours to reach its peak (~10ft?), the 2011 Tsunami took literal minutes to reach 20-30ft in some places.
i mean i assume bro didnt cuz hes still alive lmaoo@@DJShadesUK
@@gwaffles1039 Wut?!
@@DJShadesUKYes I watched that one. I’m still in awe.
Storm surges are freaky. Excellent longform footage. Thank you for sharing.
The wind was incredible, it sounded like a high speed train passing right next to the house for hours on end. I'll never forget that sound. We've stayed through quite a few hurricane's while living here in SW Florida, Ian was the absolute worst. We were lucky, we live closer to the Caloosahatchie River side of the Cape and are at a higher elevation. Still, the wind, I won't stay if we face another storm that bad. Watching this unbelievable footage gives me the chills, thank you for posting it.
No wonder 155 Mile wind 🌬️
I absolutely could not believe my eyes when I first saw this footage and the building floated away down the street. I double couldn’t believe it when I learned there was people inside. I triple couldn’t believe it when I heard the people and their dog all survived!
awesome I was so wondering about that thank God!
Ooooh!… What?! 👀 They survived?!… Good GAWD! 🙏🏽
Thanks for that much needed info… 👍🏽
They had two dogs!! And both survived 💛
There happened to be a life jacket in the house, which the woman put on early in the storm, almost as a joke. When it got worse she clipped the dogs' leashes to the life jacket. When the house was destroyed the man and woman got separated; he managed to get to the second floor of a surviving house some distance away, and eventually he saw the woman and the dogs in a nearby tree while the water was still high. He swam to them and all got back to the surviving structure. That's how they survived - plus a LOT of luck.
Storm surges are like slow motion tsunamis. We all saw what the tsunami did in Japan. This is what happens when the water stays on top of you for hours, then compounded by 150+ MPH winds! This is FAR worse than a tsunami. Thanks for posting. I'll be sure to show this to anyone who refuses to evacuate from a coastal storm.
Hopefully it will change some minds. I would never ever want to ride out a weather event like this.
I think a tsunami is far worse, cause you don't get much warning & a tsunami wave washes in much faster than a storm surge, plus, when a tsunami comes in on a flat coastline like Florida's, it can wash several miles inland. I read that the Indian Ocean & the Japanese tsunamis washed up to 6 miles inland on some of the more flat coastlines.
@@0clockedin0 That part is 100% true. I hadn't considered that. Tsunamis are far worse in terms of casualties. Also the speed of the water is far greater in a tsunami as well so even if the water only lasts a few minutes, it's moving at a great speed. The only thing a storm surge is more effective at is duration. It lasts for hours. Good point.
This really needs to be shown nationally.... ❤❤❤❤❤❤
This is amazing! You captured a full storm surge from the very beginning showing how dangerous these are! scary
Seeing this in like real time. It just hits different. I can't describe it really. How scary.
The fact that someone parked that black car got out and ran to that house for it to not even 3 almost 4 hours later get just sweeped up shows u hurricane are no joke the coastaline mainly but it still can get so bad other places and so many lives are taken bc people dont listen! Thank you for sharing this and showing pwople how dangerous these actually can be!
I watched the entire thing. It was educational, suspenseful, tragic, horrific and peaceful as it progressed. Well worth the watch!
Amazing footage....you can actually tell when the eye passes over and the surge reaches peak. Then when the wind direction changes that water gets blown back into the ocean.
Mother Nature is freaky
The eye never passed over this area, that is one reason the area was damaged as badly as it was. This particular area took the brunt of the ne and se of the storm (which is usually the worst part of them and causes most of the surge, there is no relief from it like those that experience the calm eye. The eye passed over Cayo Costa (a state park on an island) and Charlotte Harbor into Punta Gorda. The first half of the storm I was on the n and ne side of the storm experience over 180 mph wind gusts while my then home was destroyed. It was like an explosion went off in the area, but we were spared the water you saw here. That side of the storm does the opposite, it pulls the water out to sea.
THIS IS SO CRAZY AND WHAT A GREAT CAMERA, SO SAD.. BEST VIDEO COVERAGE OF ANY STORM FOOTAGE EVER.
This gave me crazy chills 😫
I saw an interview where there were a couple, and their dog that decided to stay and ride it out who lived in the red house on the left...thank God they made it out alive. Always listen to the warnings ⚠️
OMG I thought for sure they were goners... they literally rode it out...
Thank god they’re okay
@@laceyp9687
!LITERALLY! 👀
They're idiots. Bad examples for the elderly needing help, children or tourists who know nothing about the dangers of hurricanes!
They should have EVACUATED much earlier when told!!!!
She held onto a tree with her 2 dogs …she is a hero in my eyes ….think about everything in the ocean that she had to keep them safe from …God blessed her ……..
Incredible footage.
Best storm video. A science teacher’s dream. 🙏for Floridians.
I've never seen a video quite like this one. It really captures the true reality of these storms.
I live about an hour away from here and I still remember hearing those winds whipping around my house. Those winds were terrifying enough and I cannot even imagine having to deal with that kind of storm surge! I will never forget that day.
That was intense!! My heart breaks for everyone affected by this storm
I saw the back story of the couple in the pink house. What a scary ordeal they encountered. I'm happy they survived that nightmare.
Where can I find said back story??
And I'm sure that ordeal they put themselves through taught them a valuable lesson.
27:00 is when the waves first start
1:28:40 the door to the red house closes meaning someone was watching the water rise for a while. They should have evacuated.
Incredible footage! We all owe this little camera for capturing this act of Mother Nature 😮
Thank you for the effort to brave the weather and get this magnificent video. Excellent videography and record of how just destructive water can be.
You do know there wasnt a cameraman filming right?
I've lived in Fort Myers for 20 years. I've driven by this exact spot countless times. That little pink beach house that got swept away? Partied there more than once during my high school years. I went down to the island a few months after the hurricane. Completely surreal to see part of your hometown look like a warzone. I saw things I've only ever seen on a TV screen - blackhawk helicopters, military vehicles, FEMA camps, the list goes on. Had several friends that lived on the island who lost absolutely everything. A buddy of mine who's a firefighter worked the island the first week after the storm. Said they were pulling bodies out of rubble by the hundreds. The death toll is way higher than the official stated number. What a devastating time. But a year on, FMB is well into bouncing back. Just hope we can get through this hurricane season unscathed. Fingers crossed!
Is the island was being told about the 155 mile wind
Does the words Hurricane Ike ring your ears that Bolivar, Crystal Beach and Gilchrist were destroyed after the storm?
wow, thank you for sharing this, its incredible
This is the closest you can get to witnessing a storm. For a better effect, have a strong fan blowing in your face, with a water spray. GOOD VID !!!
That was so intense. The poor people in the red brick house how terrifying that must have been for them. I've changed my mind to live near the beach.
They were probably evacuated
Nope I will never move to the beach unless it’s in a camper and I can move it inland to another state during hurricane season! Those people in the red house never stood a chance.
@@CaelestiiaThey survived.
@@Eldomiboridid they evacuate?
@@wide_awake No they did not. They were in the house with their 2 dogs. They had life vests which is what saved them.
THE BEST footage
1.4 million views,you can see why..rarely is footage this good!
This is the first time I'm watching this. It breaks my heart to see my whole childhood washed away like this! Most of my childhood was spent every summer on that pier!
Me too. Now it all exists only in our memories.
This hurricane was an experienced for me. I was in the cape, with my lady and 2 dogs. Felt the full force from cat5 to cat2 and never gonna forget that day. So glad my house was able to handle such force. 😢
Are you the lady in the red house on here? What about the men is he ok?
@@joy-to7dx The man, woman, and their 2 dogs that were in the pink house somehow survived.
Crazy to watch, and even crazier to think I lived a few streets down until this hurricane. Worked at the Pierside restaurant. Both work and my place gone, and this shows all of it.
Just got a new place now, watching Idalia roll by from the safety of my balcony with a middle finger in hand rn lol
Educational indeed!! Wow... I live in Sarasota and was hunkered down during this event...waiting for it to hit us when it suddenly went south. The winds here were truly scary...seeing the winds outside the windows reminded me of a strange powerful huge space-age non-stoppable machine that just kept going
I've seen much hurricane footage over the years, this is the absolute best! We never see this type of footage! Great job! WoW!!
Lost our house in this storm. Flooded and winds tilted the frame, did tons of damage. Of all the hurricanes ive endured in swfl, nothing like this one, it was an entire day and into the night of unrelenting 100mph+ wind. It was genuinely frightening. A lot of people we know were like yep thats it, and moved away. A year later area isnt even close to fully recovered. Craziness.
Wow, if you keep flipping back and forth along the footage it's amazing how much power is there just in this area,
I use to live on Bay Beach Lane on the south side of FMB ....thank you for posting this uncut video. So much changed in just a few hours. My wife, 1 year old daughter and I were thankfully off the island when it hit. Never forget walking back over that bridge on Thursday and see the damage.
Wow! Great video! Unfortunate of what happened but great catch of this storm surge!
Thank you so much for this footage. Now I can see what was going on less mile from my own house 😢
Like 7 miles away from mine, still crazy to me
What happened to the residents in that red house that collapsed? Did they survive? ❤️🩹
@@chica2020they survived
@@Georges_IV I'd play the lottery because thats a miracle.
@@Georges_IV Oh thank GOD... makes me feel so much better. Thank you for answering
Rode both hurricane Charley and Ian here in Punta Gorda, very much on high alert this season with how insanely warm the ocean is and everything right now. Stay safe everyone!
It really does give you a whole new perspective on just how fast it turns deadly and clips don't or can't do that in a manner that the full length footage does. I have been through several here along the mid Atlantic. My dad was an electrical lineman and had to be rescued when he got stranded between the ocean and a bay. 50 some years later now I really see how that can happen so fast now.
Thank you for posting this video. I had no idea how quickly a storm surge could turn so serious. I hope the man seen entering the little red building survived.
Anyone who thinks about ignoring the evac order should watch this video! Mother nature is terrifying.
Amazing the power! I felt a bit sorry for the palm trees as well
That is truly an amazing video. It is almost incomprehensible to imagine the volume of water pushed by the wind to raise by 15ft.
Unimaginable to survive that! Omg, how terrifying it must have been. Amazing footage, thanks for posting it!
I'm so glad to read that the guy (and his family) that went in that red house are OK. As crazy as this may read, I'm glad the worst of it was during daylight hours. Can you imagine flooding like that in the dark? I hope those that had a significant loss had since recovered. Blessings to all.
We live more central in FL and it hit us at night time. Was SUPER scary! We stayed up until we started hearing the winds calm down enough to ensure we wouldn't get our roof taken out etc. while we were sleeping. What was worse was hearing transformers blow up and electrical zapping sounds and knowing that the sound was live powerlines whipping around in the wind. That said, if everyone's house was boarded up, it might as well have been night time because you don't dare get near those windows to see anything.
@@Spladoinkal 😲Oh my goodness. The sheer terror you and your family endured. I couldn't imagine. Hopefully, you have fully recovered. Bless you! Florida is beautiful but the hurricanes are enough for me to stay away.
At 4:20, the house wanted to check on the car. Ok bad joke. Seriously my god, in the first hour, they could have gotten in the car, driven 20 short minutes inland and been 100% safe, having cocktails in a hotel, with at least their car intact. Instead, they lose the house, the car and almost their lives. I live here in Florida, and I will never understand why ppl in low-lying beach areas often refuse to evacuate. I can understand skepticism. But once Ian was up to cat 4, one hour offshore, and the waves started rolling in big time, there was still a 30 minute window for them to grab their crap, their pets, jump in the car and get outta there. Seriously, just get in the car and GO. They could have gotten out, and only needed to drive a few minutes inland to escape the surge- it doesn’t go that far in! I just do not understand it.
Ian crossed the state causing flooding across the state and many hurricanes have. Andrew and Katrina barreled across the lower half of the state. Look at Hugo in the Carolinas if you think the storm doesn't go inland. The safest people were the ones that went across alligator alley to Broward, storm didn't go that way at all
c'est magnifique! This documentary takes the mind to different places than known. Thinking about floating at that same spot as the camera as nature happens.
Thank you so much for sharing this🙏
Thank you Max, impressed with what you provided us.
I went to Avenue C location on Google Maps and did a street view.
Looks much different than it did at the start of the storm.
I did the exact same thing today. Spinning around and looking behind the camera gives you an idea of the situation.
Appreciate the footage, Max. Otherwise, my heart is just feeling 😭😭😭
Absolutely horrifying. Thank you for posting this. No news outlet has ever captured the utter destruction better than you have. I knew it was bad but couldn’t fathom this. I was in Cape Coral at the time and the waters receded much later than this. The little red house held on for so long until the bitter end. So sad. Prayers for all.
The couple in that house actually survived. Amazing