Category 4 Hurricane Ian - Port Charlotte - Eyewall Footage 

You're right! That's actually pretty amazing in itself.

@@anniefannycharles9951 FL building codes probably had something to do with it staying up.

This storm is likely to make many folks reconsider living in coastal/near coastal areas of FL.

I live in North Port too. That was the scariest storm ever! I live in a 3rd floor apartment I thought the was gonna blow away but it didn’t thank God!

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I sure hope you pay your debt before you leave. Nothing is for free, my boy.

@@TCGreggy what debt are you talking about?

I'm from Charlotte county and went through Charley and Ian too and like yourself, I'll never hang around for another one. That was absolute terror

@@knp72281 Only evacuate if you are in an evacuation zone. Did you think Charlie or Uan was stronger?

Good

Ppl who come back for clean up likes to steal people's stuff

@@jefffederer1807 That’s terrible. There should be extensive jail sentences for that.

We had a closing supposedly on Friday but house had damage and Sumter Blvd closed for days.....how bad was the flooding? With all the miscommunication we never bought the beautiful house...glad people are alive, storm was bad...we were in lake suzy and storm was relentless...stay safe.

Price st. had the worst flooding also Sumter too. All street signs, stop signs and traffic lights were lost. Widespread devastation to property.

@@Isabella.s414 we were going to buy on spring haven drive....am so upset....house not in flood zone but mayaka flooded so ....northport beautiful am so upset...prayers for all that you are ok....hang in there, you have each other.

Exactly❤️

I would of been terrified! Was a little afraid with the wind& rain we had.

Thank you! I was just the documenter here haha. Amazing power! I couldn't edit it down below 35 mins and you can see why!

Exactly.... the way you got behind a wall with no wind to catch this is amazing and very undervalued

Wahoo

It was good til he sat at a gas station for over half of the video. I'll never understand why these storm chasers do that.

@leaf After the eye, we stopped to take a few shots before heading back towards the hotel but the wind picked up so fast and debris started flying. It wasn’t safe to leave. Sorry for the inconvenience!

“occasional snowstorms” i would say that’s damn near worse man fck the cold😂

I'd rather die than lube up north. It's horribly cold up there.

@@cheryljoseph2376 🤣it ain't that bad. And as a matter of fact, everytime we have a snow storm, everything's shut down (schools, public services and businesses), until cleanup is completed. The only downside is when you're caught outside your home.

I rather have the hurricanes living in the north east is horrible it’s the worst crime ever!

@@theo5675 i agree with you, ain’t no category on bangin cuh

Katrina was more stronger, isnt???

@@coldwindblowing Katrina made it to category 5 when it was out in the Gulf (175 mph winds I believe) but it weakened prior to landfall to a cat 3. So the winds over land were probably not quite as bad as in Ian, but because of all the time that Katrina spent pushing seawater at 175 mph on its way to the coast, it produced an incredible and unbelievably powerful storm surge of around 28 feet over Waveland, Mississippi. Ian's final peak storm surge value isn't official yet, but it seems that some portions of Fort Myers Beach may have gotten up to 15 feet of surge.

Yes worse 3 weeks of my life without power after Katrina

@@HeyChickens just want to point out that the reason the storm surge was that high in New Orleans was because most of the city was (or still is) under Sea Level.

cap , no one cares about Katrina

I rode it out by Burnt Store. I will never forget it either.

@@cdr-kg2nh I hope you weren't in a mobile home. 🙋

@@cdr-kg2nh my friend and I stayed it out at my home in placida. We got some of the worst of the storm. You think it's never going to stop. It was absolutely relentless. My friends asked me if I would stay for the next one. My answer is, perhaps I would if it wasn't for the aftermath. After the Storm with no electricity water & the helplessness you feel after it was something else ! Our area had never experienced storm in all the years I've been here 28 years, except for Charlie which was nothing compared to this one.

I was in Deltona when this happened so I can say from Deltona through to Orlando then Tampa it was a large mix depending on the area, mine wasn't as bad I was on Deltona shore of lake Monroe thankfully the winds were going out to the lake instead of in but the Sanford area was hit hard because it was heading their so they had very very bad flooding and them and Deltona had bad power outages Orlando was hit hard not much known about it though and Tampa was the worst I heard from relative experience that ian had made roofs tear off and bad property destruction etc but during the storm I can say while I used a mp3 for radio while the power was out I can't tell you how many times the south of Florida was mentioned hope those people are ok but after the storm things got better, you could see lake Monroes water level change from before, during then after the storm I'm all new to these stuff I'm from Denver so Ian's my first and last hurricane I'll be in but thats my part from florida during ian hope i could give just a bit of insight

Saw it once when I was driving back around 8 at night. I live in Austin, Texas. Power went out because the lines were cut by the storm. The uprooted tree looked like a giant figure moving forward and then stooping over in the dark. It was scary.

I'm only at 9 minutes and it's horrible!

I've had families who lived in Homestead and Miami Florida tell me that Andrew 1992 was worse.

@@EverydayAdventures123 Agreed. I went through Andrew, it was worse. It literally obliterated everything on the landscape for miles. Ian left buildings, street signs intact. Andrew was by far more devastating.

@@niccidee782 it's hard to really compare. the Building codes back in 1992 had to be changed because of Andrew. Had Andrew hit today with the building codes enforced that he created, it might have been similar damage. Andrew didn't have much a surge as this one did which is why in the end more destruction will be caused by Ian than Andrew

Miami didn't get the full brunt of Andrew, so the eyewall of Ian certainly could have been worse than what you got in Miami with Andrew. For Homestead area though, a completely different story. The damage left in that area, regardless of less strict building codes at that time, was absolutely astonishing. These yellow pines down here in s FL are incredibly strong, and even with the insane 150+ mph gusts with Ian, the vast majority of them only lost branches. After Andrew, there were entire pine forests mowed down and turned into toothpicks, snapped about halfway down the tree or at the trunk, 99 out of a 100. Yes building codes have helped tremendously to lessen the damage to structures from these major hurricanes since Andrew, but trees will always be trees. Andrew is, by wind damage signature left behind upon a significant square mile area, probably the second worst hurricane to ever hit US mainland, behind only the 1935 Labor day hurricane that hit the Keys with wind gusts probably over 240 mph. Some of Andrew's wind gusts in the Cutler Ridge area were estimated to have reached around 200 mph!!! That is completely unheard of over land here in the mainland US outside of tornadoes.

@@HeyChickens True. :)

My house is just done the street from there off Peachland. Crazy to see people driving in that

I live in Cape Coral, Lee County. Unbelievable power. And where did I hear that the 2nd part of a hurricane (after the eye passes) is not as strong as the first half??!! BALONEY!

The second part of the eye was so much worse in Burnt Store marina area. Winds came in reverse and hit so much harder.

@@anniefannycharles9951 ian was a different situation,ian was moving from the south west to northeast along with about 30kts of shear going in about the same direction,while slowing down,in situations like that the western half always tends to be the strongest,unlike normal situations

Me too...I live in Jacksonville now and I could not believe...could not believe IT...I also remember the "no name" storm..when the Callosahatachi came down Palm Beach Blvd and graced our back ally with a huge boat with our house in Providence Street surrounded with water and could not even see where our pool was...this is awful 😞 hope u and family r ok.

My daughter ...FMB..called said..mom my house is surrounded by ocean... terrifying....but we Florida lovers will rebuild... Florida's been good to us...God bless.....

Yes, most of the country doesn't understand how long it hovered over us.

😢😢😅 9:14 9:14

Idalia must’ve hit bad then

Went thru Charley myself, right off Easy St. This one my place is in the Cape but Wednesday I high-tailed it to Bonita. Just got back last week after power came back.

Thanks Michael! It’s a rush to say the least as you well know haha. The only reason we were able to was the structure of the building we were against. If it weren’t for that, we would’ve been inside for sure. (But then again we did get trapped at the gas station location haha) hopefully we run into each other on the next one!

Thank you! I was just the documenter haha

@@JoeyKrastel Humble respone Joey; Ian really let us know we cant control everything. Glad you are safe! New sub. Thx for having me. Blessings

Intense*

Thank you and I'm glad you enjoyed!

Thank you for sharing that with us. After going through Michael in E Panama City, the curfews seem to make things much worse, especially immediately after the storm. No one knew anything, young kids were separated from their parents, there was no information, and it was awful to witness. Did you move away from the area?

@@JoeyKrastel yes we moved out of Florida completely, couldn’t go through that again. Your video was great btw. Be safe out there in the future.

He was a beast!

Really hopeful they bounced back very quickly!

Fort myers here, we got annihilated, and cape Coral, been going to cape for weeks to do work and help my boss rebuild his house

Right? It's actually amazing

Wow, I'm so glad you and your dog are okay! In a mobile home near Fort Myers Beach! You are lucky.

Most airlines flew the planes out from there

I was thinking the same thing.

Luckily, we found some really sturdy structures to take shelter behind, otherwise, we wouldn't be outside (Don't try that at home!! lol). There was one part of the Northern Eyewall where we actually had to move and while I was running, a gust of wind hit me so hard from behind, it threw me onto a parked car and across the front hood. I was very lucky I didn't get hurt. It felt like I was just hit by a big wave at the beach.

@@JoeyKrastel We? Did you drive to this location? How did you make it here?

Yes and that gulf loop current tends to steer hurricanes easterly as they rapidly intensify. It would take a cat 3 hitting western Cuba going north north west to strengthen and turn into Tampa. I knew it was turning into fort myers as if left Cuba going due north. Reed timmer and other meteorologists knew it too but those computer models sure didn’t. We’re very fortunate here in St Pete/Tampa

There’s literally tons of videos before this that shows powerful hurricanes. Especially that one hurricane Dorian video

@@KoId. yes there's a video of the 185mph eyewall. It's absolutely insane.

Thank you!

@@JoeyKrastel You're welcome :)

Lol yes!

Someone definitely shouldn’t be recording if their shaking and doing all that extra crap

It’s okay, move to Washington state, Oregon or California

Glad you enjoyed it!

Where was there 3 you speak of? Thanks!

@@JoeyKrastel Australia. Cyclone Yasi was a category 5 with unofficial winds of 325kph (official weather stations were destroyed by the storm). Similar in strength to super typhoon Yolanda which hit the Phillipphines

Ahhh yes, Yasi!

Unfortunately the microphones don’t do too well being outside in the driving rain and mist all day and didn’t pick up the sounds the best. The roar was incredible!

@@JoeyKrastel Epic video after de 20 minute mark hell breaks loose.

@@JoeyKrastel At what time was that about 6 p.m?