Drone footage captures Hurricane Ian's destruction in Fort Myers Beach | USA TODAY 

So sad to see. I was just here less than a week ago visiting my parents. My parents moved to Fort Myers 3 months ago and their place was completely underwater but they're alive which is all that matters.

So surreal, I took my children here just a month ago for their first beach vacation. I tried explaining this to them and realized I couldn’t fathom it any better than they were able to, the concept of this thriving city we were in just weeks ago being basically wiped off the map. I hope everyone effected by this a speedy recovery and rebuilding of your lives.

time to reconsider not rebuilding to such extremes

I saw a brief interview with a woman in Fort Myers: "Our house is gone. I knew this could happen, but didn't think it would happen to *us*!" - Bad things only happen to other people??? Positive-bias is a dangerous thing. To be brutally honest, all Floridians should expect this to happen if they live near the coast less than 10-feet above sea level. Less than 30-years from today, sea levels will have risen ~4-feet in populated areas like Tampa Bay and Cape Coral, not to mention the barrier islands. 15-inches per year! These places will be inundated and submerged for millenia. "Overall, sea level rise is making the odds of a South Florida flood reaching more than 4-feet above high tide by 2050. On par with the odds of losing at Russian roulette. More than half the population of more than 100 Florida towns and cities currently live on land below that 4-foot line." The opposite word (antonym) for "Paradise" is "Hell".

How in the world was their not countless-loss of life .. Hats off to all involved in preparation.. and people heeding warnings ..

Heartbreaking for Florida, take courage God help you.

this makes me so sad I've been there a handful of times as a kid coming from snow covered MI to beautiful ft. Myers. I've been wanting to go back for years now it's just destroyed its heartbreaking all those people lost so much.

That's nuts. This was supposed to originally hit us here in manatee county head on. Can't even imagine. Been in Florida forever, and been lucky so far.

I can't imagine who would live along the coastline knowing any year, during hurricane season, your home and life are at risk. Yes, here in the Midwest, we have tornados but they are much less common than hurricanes.

Looks like my childhood bedroom.

Thoughts and prayers going out to everybody 🙏 there. Love this area. Thinking of you all!

Behond words to describe, prayer to everyone effected by Ian in southwest Florida, this buckeye and wife loved to vacation there yearly,. Was there in April, and enjoyed the pier to take the sunset in and thankful we took many pictures, and was so down there 3 years ago on New years Eve at time square, celebrating the beach ball drop,. 😰💔

Wow! Paradise lost!😢

Thats alot of damage

OMG. Tragic. The actual place where the Opening of Day of the Dead was shot completely destroyed. Much love to all.

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I'm not sure I would stay after this, if Ft Myers had been my residence to return to. V depressing to know a once beautiful tourist attraction is unlivable and demolished.

😢lumber and other supplies are going to be ridiculous price as Fort Myers and other surrounding areas rebuild and supplies are shifted from other locations or brought up by contractors.

Fort Myers STRONG!

Riptide Condo is gone. 😞

I lived there for six years. My friends and I used to play cards on the beach while our children ran around. My daughter was married in the Sanibel beach resort and we havd so many baseball games and I just can’t believe it all that was just gone

PPL OPEN FIRE HYDRANTS FOR CLEAN WATER. Boil to drink to be safe ofc but that’s what we did after hurricane Katrina

Hope safe for all people in here

One of the saddest events in US history...GOD BLESS FT MYERS BEACH

I will take my few months of winter and maybe a broken gutter or something but not having to keep rebuilding a whole house

We need to realize that an underwater cold fusion hydrogen nuke may be the solution.

the music was distracting

That's unbelievable....prayers sent to everyone who lost loved ones!!!

Looks like the price of paradise is hell.

The airbnb I stayed at a few years ago is destroyed

Real sad :(

AMazInG

My aunt and uncle were in there it was really bad to hear

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Very sad ain't no way in hell I would say in Florida cause on some good weather well we see what good weather got most

Omg nooooooo

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God looks devastated

Send that wood to Europe for firewood. They are going to need it.

That's absolutely scary. Mother nature destroyed 🙏🙏

Por favor 🙏que 🙏bajen los precios de la gasoline ⛽

Gov. DeSantis is amazing regarding communicating updates and getting relief efforts organized.

Finally the insurance paid off.

Por favor alguna noticia

Wow only 214 likes and now 68 comments, nice to see people waking up to where real misinformation is !

Perhaps choosing to live on a sandbar wasn’t such a good idea??

Insurance companies will be massively financially impacted. How do such companies survive?..... California fires = devastating too.

The Muzik points to this being made for entertainment purposes. For Who??

Isaiah 41:10 10 So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand

It's time to stop building and rebuilding on barrier islands. If there was nothing here but mangroves it would still look like nothing but mangroves.

I am just going to say that I am dominating the pop tops and cans and the money in my R2-D2 Bank to how to rebound Fort Myers Sanibel and all the damage on the beach and get the beach it should open back up

They’re rebuilding without a care and now fema and insurance companies are going to make life in this area unbearable

STOP BUILDING SHIT IN PLACES THAT FLOOD LIKE THIS

Keep building right on the water , everybody’s insurance goes up to pay for the horses asses that live on the beach, even way inland, we subsidize this stupidity. !!!!

Drone footage captures Hurricane Ian's destruction in Fort Myers Beach | USA TODAY 1514pm 30.9.22 makes this more schmaltzy than it should be - the incidental music... hmmmmmmmm.... that could easily be a seen of carnage from any middle eastern warring enclave. p.s it also makes it seem, the footage, that is, that the storm was very discerning re: what it left standing and what it laid to waste...

Jesus is coming to judge the morning, noon, and nights.

My favorite vacation spot, which was like a third home to me, all ruined!!

Compared to Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, its nothing, you can always ask the Military to turn their factories to build back these kinda stuff.

All you did in Iraq now you are keen on production

Terrible music

It looks like Syria after Russian and Turkish bombing

$moneymakemonei lost it all

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Looks better than before. Before they had filthy drunks and weak people running around raging. Look at how peaceful and quiet it is

Allah سبحانه وتعالى said, وَإِذَا قِيلَ لَهُمْ لَا تُفْسِدُوا فِي الْأَرْضِ قَالُوا إِنَّمَا نَحْنُ مُصْلِحُونَ And when it is said to them: "Make not mischief on the earth," they say: "We are only peace-makers." أَلَا إِنَّهُمْ هُمُ الْمُفْسِدُونَ وَلَـٰكِن لَّا يَشْعُرُونَ Verily! They are the ones who make mischief, but they perceive not. [Al-Baqarah 2:11-12] كُلَّمَا أَوْقَدُوا نَارًا لِّلْحَرْبِ أَطْفَأَهَا اللَّهُ ۚ وَيَسْعَوْنَ فِي الْأَرْضِ فَسَادًا ۚ وَاللَّهُ لَا يُحِبُّ الْمُفْسِدِينَ Every time they kindled the fire of war, Allah extinguished it; and they (ever) strive to make mischief on the earth. And Allah does not like the Mufsidun (mischief-makers). [Al-Maa'idah 5:64] وَإِذَا قِيلَ لَهُمْ آمِنُوا كَمَا آمَنَ النَّاسُ قَالُوا أَنُؤْمِنُ كَمَا آمَنَ السُّفَهَاءُ ۗ أَلَا إِنَّهُمْ هُمُ السُّفَهَاءُ وَلَـٰكِن لَّا يَعْلَمُونَ And when it is said to them: "Believe as the people (Muslims of Islamic Monotheism) have believed," they say: "Shall we believe as the fools have believed?" Verily they are the fools, but they know not. [Al-Baqarah 2:13] وَإِذَا قِيلَ لَهُم مَّاذَا أَنزَلَ رَبُّكُمْ ۙ قَالُوا أَسَاطِيرُ الْأَوَّلِينَ And when it is said to them: "What is it that your Lord has sent down?" They say: "Tales of the ancients." [An-Nahl 16:24] وَإِذَا قِيلَ لَهُمُ اتَّبِعُوا مَا أَنزَلَ اللَّهُ قَالُوا بَلْ نَتَّبِعُ مَا أَلْفَيْنَا عَلَيْهِ آبَاءَنَا ۗ أَوَلَوْ كَانَ آبَاؤُهُمْ لَا يَعْقِلُونَ شَيْئًا وَلَا يَهْتَدُونَ And when it is said to them: "Follow what Allah has sent down." They say: "Nay! We shall follow what we found our fathers following." (Would they do that!) even though their fathers did not understand anything nor were they guided? [Al-Baqarah 2:170] وَإِذَا قِيلَ لَهُمْ أَنفِقُوا مِمَّا رَزَقَكُمُ اللَّهُ قَالَ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا لِلَّذِينَ آمَنُوا أَنُطْعِمُ مَن لَّوْ يَشَاءُ اللَّهُ أَطْعَمَهُ إِنْ أَنتُمْ إِلَّا فِي ضَلَالٍ مُّبِينٍ And when it is said to them: "Spend of that with which Allah has provided you," those who disbelieve say to those who believe: "Shall we feed those whom if Allah willed, He (Himself) would have fed? You (believers) are only in a plain error." [Ya-Sin 36:47] إِنَّهُمْ كَانُوا إِذَا قِيلَ لَهُمْ لَا إِلَـٰهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ يَسْتَكْبِرُونَ Verily when it was said to them: "La ilaha illa-Allah (none has the right to be worshipped but Allah)," they puffed themselves up with pride (i.e. denied it). [As-Saafaat 37:35] وَقَالُوا مَا هِيَ إِلَّا حَيَاتُنَا الدُّنْيَا نَمُوتُ وَنَحْيَا وَمَا يُهْلِكُنَا إِلَّا الدَّهْرُ ۚ وَمَا لَهُم بِذَ‌ٰلِكَ مِنْ عِلْمٍ ۖ إِنْ هُمْ إِلَّا يَظُنُّونَ And they say: "There is nothing but our life of this world, we die and we live and nothing destroys us except time (Ad-Dahr)." And they have no knowledge of it: they only conjecture. [Al-Jaathiyah 45:24] وَقَالُوا مَنْ أَشَدُّ مِنَّا قُوَّةً ۖ أَوَلَمْ يَرَوْا أَنَّ اللَّهَ الَّذِي خَلَقَهُمْ هُوَ أَشَدُّ مِنْهُمْ قُوَّةً ۖ وَكَانُوا بِآيَاتِنَا يَجْحَدُونَ And they said: "Who is mightier than us in strength?" See they not that Allah who created them was Mightier in Strength than them? And they used to deny Our Ayat (Signs)! فَأَرْسَلْنَا عَلَيْهِمْ رِيحًا صَرْصَرًا فِي أَيَّامٍ نَّحِسَاتٍ لِّنُذِيقَهُمْ عَذَابَ الْخِزْيِ فِي الْحَيَاةِ الدُّنْيَا ۖ وَلَعَذَابُ الْآخِرَةِ أَخْزَىٰ ۖ وَهُمْ لَا يُنصَرُونَ So We sent upon them a furious wind in days of evil omen (for them) that We might give them a taste of disgracing torment in this present worldly life. But surely the torment of the Hereafter will be more disgracing, and they will never be helped. [Fussilat 41:15-16] تُدَمِّرُ كُلَّ شَيْءٍ بِأَمْرِ رَبِّهَا فَأَصْبَحُوا لَا يُرَىٰ إِلَّا مَسَاكِنُهُمْ ۚ كَذَ‌ٰلِكَ نَجْزِي الْقَوْمَ الْمُجْرِمِينَ Destroying everything by the Command of its Lord! So they became such that nothing could be seen except their dwellings! Thus do We recompense the people who are Mujrimun (criminal polytheist disbelievers)! [Al-Ahqaaf 46:25] مَا ظَلَمْنَاهُمْ وَلَـٰكِن ظَلَمُوا أَنفُسَهُمْ ۖ فَمَا أَغْنَتْ عَنْهُمْ آلِهَتُهُمُ الَّتِي يَدْعُونَ مِن دُونِ اللَّهِ مِن شَيْءٍ لَّمَّا جَاءَ أَمْرُ رَبِّكَ ۖ وَمَا زَادُوهُمْ غَيْرَ تَتْبِيبٍ We wronged them not, but they wronged themselves. So their gods other than Allah whom they invoked, benefitted them naught when there came the Command of your Lord, nor did they add aught to them except destruction. وَكَذَ‌ٰلِكَ أَخْذُ رَبِّكَ إِذَا أَخَذَ الْقُرَىٰ وَهِيَ ظَالِمَةٌ ۚ إِنَّ أَخْذَهُ أَلِيمٌ شَدِيدٌ Such is the Seizure of your Lord when He seizes the (population of) the towns while they are doing wrong (i.e polytheism and disbelief in the Afterlife). Verily, His Seizure is painful, (and) severe. [Hud 11:101-102] ذَ‌ٰلِكَ جَزَاؤُهُم بِأَنَّهُمْ كَفَرُوا بِآيَاتِنَا وَقَالُوا أَإِذَا كُنَّا عِظَامًا وَرُفَاتًا أَإِنَّا لَمَبْعُوثُونَ خَلْقًا جَدِيدًا That is their recompense, because they denied Our Ayat (Signs) and said: "When we are bones and fragments, shall we really be raised up as a new creation?" [Al-Israa' 17:98] قَدْ عَلِمْنَا مَا تَنقُصُ الْأَرْضُ مِنْهُمْ ۖ وَعِندَنَا كِتَابٌ حَفِيظٌ We know that which the earth takes of them (their dead bodies), and with Us is a Book preserved (i.e. the Book of Decrees). [Qaf 50:4] وَمَا خَلَقْنَا السَّمَاءَ وَالْأَرْضَ وَمَا بَيْنَهُمَا بَاطِلًا ۚ ذَ‌ٰلِكَ ظَنُّ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا ۚ فَوَيْلٌ لِّلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا مِنَ النَّارِ And We created not the heaven and the earth and all that is between them with falsehood! That is the consideration of those who disbelieve! Then woe to those who disbelieve from the Fire! [Sad 38:27] أَمْ حَسِبَ الَّذِينَ اجْتَرَحُوا السَّيِّئَاتِ أَن نَّجْعَلَهُمْ كَالَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَعَمِلُوا الصَّالِحَاتِ سَوَاءً مَّحْيَاهُمْ وَمَمَاتُهُمْ ۚ سَاءَ مَا يَحْكُمُونَ Or do those who earn evil deeds think that We shall hold them equal with those who believe and do righteous good deeds, in their present life and after their death? Worst is the judgement that they make. وَخَلَقَ اللَّهُ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضَ بِالْحَقِّ وَلِتُجْزَىٰ كُلُّ نَفْسٍ بِمَا كَسَبَتْ وَهُمْ لَا يُظْلَمُونَ And Allah has created the heavens and the earth with truth, in order that each Nafs (self, soul, person) may be recompensed for that which it has earned, and they will not be wronged. [Al-Jaathiyah 45:21-22] وَأَنَّ الَّذِينَ لَا يُؤْمِنُونَ بِالْآخِرَةِ أَعْتَدْنَا لَهُمْ عَذَابًا أَلِيمًا And that those who believe not in the Hereafter, for them We have prepared a painful torment. [Al-Israa' 17:10] وَأُمَمٌ سَنُمَتِّعُهُمْ ثُمَّ يَمَسُّهُم مِّنَّا عَذَابٌ أَلِيمٌ And (there will be other) people to whom We shall grant their pleasures (for a time), but in the end a painful torment will reach them from Us. [Hud 11:48]

So sad

Fear God.

Jesus is Coming very soon get ready 🙌 Great News: this is not our home. Our Home is in Heaven Amen 🙏 Repent and Believe in the Gospel Amen 🙏 No matter how worthless or dirty you feel from sin always remember Holy Blood of Jesus can make you whiter than snow Amen

Call trump.

THIS IS WHAT THE U.S. MILITARY CAUSES.

The utility of drones.... Superb. I'm amazed that there are any structures standing at all. Disaster. Maybe DeSantis can focus on this now? M 🦘🏏😎