We stayed there in May at Sand Pointe Condo's building 2 before Ian came and changed the island. It lost it's roof since it faced the Gulf while building 1 lost shingles on the end facing the gulf. The restaurant next door the Sandbar was swamped but the structure stood. From what I have seen from videos of Wes Gulf Dr. the Sandbar is gone now, flattened and removed. Which is so sad as it was a great steak place. We literally walked next door from Sand Pointe. We hope to return to Sanibel next year and stay at Sand Pointe again if possible.
Tell you what, I’ve always wondered what hurricanes would look like approaching. If they had a huge shelf cloud. Really I guess that’s for straight line storms.
Just sad in every way for the residents, vacationers, animals, marine life. Absolute devastation and we really have no desire to return. Visited since early 90 s. Met some great people we still keep in touch with. 😢
Insurance companies are dropping people that live by the shore here in Florida. They are losing too much $$ with hurricanes, wildfires, floods, blizzards, etc. Eventually, with enough destruction, Florida might go the way of Galveston & do a Eminent Domain along the shorelines. Flood insurance is going up like crazy and like I said, the insurance companies are now dropping policies or no longer doing insurance in Florida. Florida isn't cheap like it use to be.
I must admit that your scintillating musical score to this great video acts like a compelling counterpoint to the absolute fear and yet wonderment of this impending weather system. MAKE MORE!
The video sure is a good one. The 1st few minutes are okay. Then I got a panic attack. I went through Hurricane Andrew so this scares the hell out of me
That's just how clouds look we over in the south west of Australia always get those during spring and winter yesterday it looked like tornados were going to form with what kind of clouds we got but it didn't even rain
Love the Music in this! ( now i want to listen to it more n more ) This place Looks SO AMAZING! and the rain on the camaras make it look like its crying Almost as if they knew something was going to happen. Shame it absolutely Smashed with the storm surge But thats mother natures power it can never be underestimated. HOPEFULLY its Well on its way to bouncing back from this & Stronger, More Beautiful than ever.
Amazing. Great upload. The power being unleashed is just phenomenal. I read that the average strength tropical cyclone unleashes the same amount of energy that is used by all humans over the entire planet. The surge is scary....how do moored boats and yachts ride out a hurricane if the storm surge is 16ft high....?
The news kept saying Ian was going to miss us and that it wasnt going to be that bad. The night before warned and told everyone to evacuate and that it was going to be a Cat 5 hurricane. We stayed through it seeing as there was no where for us to go this late and it was the most terrifying experience. We sat in the house listening to our roof literally being ripped apart while fences and debris were being lifted up and thrown around outside the windows. Around 12:30pm when the camera in this video went out is when all hell broke loose, power went out, water lines ruptured, emergency alert sent a message saying "it is no longer safe to be outside". The winds recorded somewhere around 150mph and gusts of up to 180mph i believe. Its incredible that our roof remained somewhat intact though we did get water leaking in every single room, through light fixtures etc.
THEN what happened? I know the camera failed, so there are no more shots from this vantage point, but what did this location look like after the hurricane?
You can find some pictures of afterward, but if memory serves, the island was basically just rubble. I want to say the entire island was submerged. The images you can find basically showed most of it just destroyed. There's some updated videos of it.
I was watching on that webcam that day up until it failed. Then Ian came and parked right off Cape Coral and sat there for 4 and a half hours just doing us damage. Worst storm I've been through ever, and much worse than Irma.
Watching this for 4 minutes going that wasn't so bad then watching the last minute terrified wondering how the hell people live in Florida and go through this every 5 years.