Hurricane Ian devastates US state of Florida - BBC News 

There's a Amish community in Sarasota.

Amish people don't do anything like drive etc that's not in the Bible

@@m42037 Amish people can RIDE in vehicles; it is the driving that is not allowed, but different Amish groups have different rules, so some do drive in certain scenarios, and some are not allowed to drive or ride in a motor vehicle at all. Most likely, these Amish gentlemen had a non-Amish driver for their truck.

@@jennypulczinski7204 I know they're allowed a emergency phone for situations like having a baby or heart attack's etc where a horse is too slow

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There is no recovery for Florida … homeowners cannot get insurance in these areas because it’s not worth it to the insurance companies. Same in California. Insurance costs more than the mortgage in these areas.

It will only end when people stop building on a beach that repeatedly gets hit by hurricanes every damn year. But ya

@justinetarot484 Actually, we are recovering ahead of schedule thanks to our resilience and support from our great governor. This ain't our first rodeo, my friend.

@testickles8834 Except Ft. Myers does not get hit every year, and certainly not by a major hurricane. Nice exaggeration, though.

Yep , they will rebuild and do it again , and again and again... Intellectual dwarves.

Felt so pained and pity for the affected lives too…

Too bad we wont do the one thing that would. And it will even sound like a joke or not a real possibility that exists RIGHT now, but --- The new idea from MIT to utterly reverse the full amount of heat added from all fossil fuel burning, by building a space bubble to block 1.8% of the suns rays. But most wont listen to MIT, and no one will listen to me.

Most those people are rich and have insurance no problem, it's the poor people and death's that's devastating

You want some really weird dreams...

You're so right! Some people are unable to leave. No money, no transportation, medical needs that can't be met, and they may have several animals they love and care for that they refuse to leave. I lived through Hugo and it was an unforgettable hurricane! After all these years (25)I still panic at the mere mention of a storms arrival. 🙁😥

@@marilynwade7136 We had a 3 year old, a newborn, & 2 big dogs in 08 when Ike hit. After our disastrous attempt to evacuate Rita...when people were dying on Houston freeways...we stayed. In Ike we sheltered 6 family members (1 on home dialysis), 4 extra dogs & 12 of my aunts cats (don't ask). We lost half of our roof and water poured in the house. It was a NIGHTMARE!! No power for 16 DAYS!! I took the kids to Dallas on day 3. My husband stayed to protect all of our property. We were out of our home from September to January getting repairs. I have so much sympathy for people living through natural disasters. It is traumatizing. Poor, elderly & disabled suffer greatly. People don't understand that if you don't pull cash out you're in a bad position. NO POWER. BANKS CLOSED. You can't use the ATM or debit cards at stores that happen to be open. It's a mess. If someone hasn't experienced it...they don't understand.

Luke 21:11 “And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.” King James Version

@person1894Y49 I agree with you. However, when you live with the threat of hurricanes your entire life...you are accustomed to it. I imagine we feel the same way as those living in tornado alley or in earthquake zones, etc. It is a part of life for us.

@@angham3829 Amen. Come Lord Jesus. 🙏

Thank you Roy. Prayers needed.

Luke 21:11 “And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.” King James Version

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Thats his job

Yess those thoughts will help immensely. Glad to think thoughts are on their way via carrier pigeon as peoples houses are gone.

This guy's right. There are lots of misplaced pets and wildlife. People leave their pets behind all of the time when they evacuate. Them poor animals is right to. This sucks all the way around

@@odynith9356And in those houses where pets and outside the wildlife, so what's your point? Animals are innocent they can't change their behaviour unlike humans who refuse to do so. One thing I know when we as a species are totally extinct the planet will be safe for the others.

@@Spiritlife01 Can you read? He's talking about "sending thoughts" being pointless self-congratulatory nonsense.

sending thoughts and prayers. Look ma, i'm helping~

Never saw any boats that nice on Lake Eola.

Areas in Orlando and Kissimmee were waist-deep and chest-deep in water from flooding caused by the masive amount of rain, not storm surge. See the youtube videos of water rescues there.

Hahahahahaha calm down Karen 🤣

I agree. Floridians have been outspoken in their inhumane actions and words for years. Reaping and sowing comes to mind.

@@Spiritlife01 Yep, wishing you were there with them. I guess it's only Peace on "your" earth and people you don't like what they say can die horribly. Nice, really nice.

Luke 21:11 “And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.” King James Version

You think the news desk reporter was studying a map as they spoke?

@@melissas4874 even the graphic said “orlando” while he was standing along a devastated marina on the inter coastal, which absolutely is not Orlando

@@melissas4874 No. But their research department only has to look at a basic map to see Orlando does not have a coast.

Omg! So touching… feel so sorry for the affected lives

Many folks won't leave because the shelters won't take in pets. They stay home with their animals, & end up paying for their concern & loyalty with their lives.

The thing about staying is that if anything goes wrong, you're stuck. You can't get out and no one can get to you to help. I live in south Louisiana and it doesn't take much to get me to evacuate. We go to a pet friendly hotel further north. I know I'm blessed to be able to do that. I wouldn't be able to leave my pets behind either.

I was stuck on the Houston freeway for 14 hours...traveling about 30 miles in all that time...during Hurricane Rita in '05. It took us literally 15 mins to get home once we turned around. People were dying in standstill traffic. During the unprecedented flooding of Harvey, officials didn't even evacuate because the area affected was so massive. There was no way to evacuate that huge population of people. We were all trapped. It is expensive to evacuate. Low income families can't afford it. Nowadays, NO ONE can truly afford it. Prayers for FL. I feel their pain. 🙏

my neighbor lost 5 goats from the flooding

Luke 21:11 “And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.” King James Version

They will. I know that the Florida coast will.

I live in the panhandle (Pensacola) originally the storm was projected to come here which means it would have had even more time to soak up that warm energy from the Gulf of Mexico. I can only speculate but if it was a cat 4 at Lee county there's no doubt in my mind it would have been a cat 5 if it didn't change it's coarse. But nevertheless it's still just as bad and my prayers and maybe what I can afford to donate which won't be much but it's better than nothing.

They won't be helping to clean up, they don't even have hands.

Alligators won't be too bad once the water levels go back down. If you leave them alone, they usually leave you alone. The main thing that will be worrisome is getting enough volunteers out there to help get everything gutted and debris cleaned up as quickly as possible in this first month after the storm. With all that water coming into homes, it's not safe after the first month for volunteers to help with clean up (the mold sets in at dangerous levels after that point and you habe to hire someone to do it). Insurance is going to put them all through the ringer too. Two years after Hurricanes Laura and Delta here in Southwest Louisiana, and we still have people and businesses who aren't getting money owed by their insurance, let alone the money the government is supposedly sending for those lower income families that insurance stiffed. Honestly, just getting as many people there with their own chainsaws, food, gloves, tents, etc. (there won't be power or useable running water too probably here for a month or more) as possible to help them will go a long way towards recovery.

Thought patterns enjoy your blessing.

Millions of people's lives have been destroyed, and all you can do is celebrate because it didn't happen to you? How are you "blessed," blessed by whom, or what? Your a very, very, sick individual.

Orlando does have boats though..

There's numerous smallish lakes (& swamps) near Orlando. More than enough water to float a boat!

For real. The city of Florida is below sea level since it was a swamp first. Yet instead of taking lessons from the constant destruction, they still choose to live in that same spot in Florida. Geezus

The truth sucks to hear sometimes, but I agree with you. Same with folks living at the base of an active volcano, in wildfire territory, etc....

So your American

@@jonathanh7268 that’s why they pay 4x the US caverage for home insurance . And florida is responsible for 79% of flood claims . It’s a whole insurance scam , get a new house every time it floods .

Y'all ? Why do you Yanks insist on bastardising the English language ? Find another , maybe Spanish.

Taking a much needed bath lol.

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Baloney. Storms have been battering Florida and the Caribbean for thousands of years.

@@garywagner2466 Yes, there's a price to live in so-called-paradise....

@@garywagner2466 climate change is real old man. Youre just going to have to accept that.

@@ThatGuy-js6mu, the global climate has been changing since the atmosphere first formed. If you knew anything about climate or geology, you’d know that.

Try watching a comedy?

@@robertbarncord6341 what??

Strange, I was hearing initial reports expressing caution for the areas hardest hit. 🤷‍♀️

@gn2128 lol, I know. Some people just like to chime in with no insight. Probably doesn't even live in Florida.

Mother nature.. OR planned weather manipulated attack on a very strong leader and state and also where POTUS 45 resides... the truth shall eventually be made known.. in the meantime PRAYERS for all who have been affected by this monster storm... 🙏🙏🙏

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Not every place on the planet Earth gets hit by hurricanes, but every single place on Earth will experience SOMETHING of a natural disaster. It could be tornadoes, floods, droughts, earthquakes, mudslides, dust storms, blizzards, ice storms, there is nowhere to escape nature. All we can do is live our lives.

@@idiotsloveboxes That’s not true. Most people live where they can handle the nature. I for example live in Sweden and we don’t have anything close to this (this is true for all Nordic countries).

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Like every prayer in history... You fail.

There's been just a few deaths, so far. Nothing like the big Galveston storm of 1900.

@@Cricket2731 My condolences to those who passed away

@@robertbarncord6341 my prayers come true

What Florida's worst storm ?

Not as horrible as this! Florida could use your prayers right now.

Oh you can’t be serious

Dont worry we will gladly fund his campaign for more tickets and ship them to those hypocrite lefties like yourself......REEEEEEEEEEEEE!!! pssssst liberalism makes people weak shhhh dont tell nobody

Life works in mysterious ways .The refugees were treated humanly when they left Florida and were taken out of harms way. I hope nothing but the best for them in the future.

Damages like this don’t happen every year. So many people trying to brush this off lol

It's the first hurricane to hit the US this year. It was a doozy for sure.

Donate to the red cross.

2022 and it just decides to start happening every year, that’s quite a stretch

Fake news.

REad this commenters remark *Les Faust 3 hours ago* *The initial report was It was supposed to hit 300 miles north of where it did, everybody went South thinking they were in the clear and then got a hammered..* the people that took minor precautions got the full brunt of a category 5 hurricane I should take back those UNKIND words if i were YOU...

there's not really a Winter and the Summer is mild

Alzheimer's must be to blame. They rebuild , over and over again and expect different results. Intelligence at work in the U.S.A. Bloody idiots.

FL is full of stupid people so senile old people fit right in.

Its not like this all the time. And even during other storm seasons its not this bad.

Yea me neither. Having lived in San Diego, California, that is the place to go for better weather in USA! Florida's summer is hot and miserably humid. Add hurricanes and alligators = no thanks! But to each their own.

Hello Victoria,how are you doing

@@michaelschloosman I am not doing that good but its ok.

@@victoriaohlendorf7525 Hey Victoria, what's wrong,I would love to talk more with you but I can't on here,can I have your number let me text you,if you fell comfortable with that.

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@@Sean-gy4ej nope

Actually 9 reported fatalities

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@@tmmartinesq.6216 thanks

Quite possible! A boat is a hole in the water into which you throw copious amounts of money!

Cost of building materials and labor is much higher than 70 years ago. Materials also are crap and profit needs go higher. Do to greedy contractors. The facts of life.

Get a grip, hurricanes are as old as the hills!

@@lks6248 Record heat waves. Record flooding. Record glacial melt. Record wind speeds. Record ocean acidification. Record species extinction. - And your argument is: don't worry, there have always been hurricanes. Yeah, that's real helpful...

So do they ''hunt'' for storms in order to gather this data as it happens or do they sit at a distance and use satellite imagery and other information. If it's the former then they are ''storm hunters'' (who DO NOT have to be cowboys and are often from universities) gathering information as it happens in order to use to hopefully save lives in the future.

@@ABC1701A Scientists aboard the aircrafts deploy GPS devices that will transmit measurements of pressure, humidity, temperature, wind direction and speed as they fall toward the sea, providing a detailed look at the structure of the storm and its intensity. They use the data to predict the storm path and intensity.

The total # isn't in yet, I'm sure it's way more than 9

They're still conducting search and rescue operations. Sadly, I don't think the death toll will stop at 9.

And there are always a few deaths from the power outage too with some people not setting up their generators improperly. Always an unfortunate side effect with these storms. Prayers for everyone affected and that insurance steps up better and faster for y'all than what we've gone through here in Louisiana after Hurricanes Laura and Delta. Truly a beast of a storm y'all were pounded with.

That's because reality doesn't go with every event being "biblical" scare-mongering. Exaggerating is the way of the world.

@@m42037 You’re sure? That’s a weird thing to say. How are you _”sure”_ that it’s way more than nine? Did you go to Florida and murder a bunch of people while the storm was raging or something? How many people would you say are dead from this storm? Give or take? I’ll give you a margin of +/- 20 people.

Some new construction in Florida requires steel instead of timber framing, but there is a lot of old properties in Florida.

Nope. It’s a strong storm destroying trailers, boats, and cheaply built homes the same way it happens almost every year. That’s the only “norm” about it.

Luke 21:11 “And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.” King James Version

Lakes everywhere.

In Cape Coral we were only told to evacuate once the Hurricane was already on us. I have never heard a weather man say “The hurricane is here, it’s bad, to ensure your survival you must leave now.” The winds were already 60-70 mph. At that point it was either risk your life fleeing or risk your life staying. If they were to evacuate an entire week ahead of a hurricane, where would we all go? They were talking about it going anywhere from Alabama to Key West. That’s a lot of evacuees Aeri.

Because its Florida, Baby!!!!

Too stupid to move uphill .

@@almcgeary8831 The highest point in FL is about 300' above sea level. Not everybody is going to fit on it.

Relocate where? To Tornado Alley? Earthquake country? The increasing number of wildfire ridden areas? Drought stricken areas? Blizzard prone places once winter arrives? The entire east coast of the U.S. is in some hurricane's crosshairs. A huge portion of the center of the country gets devastating tornadoes. The west is full of drought stricken forests succumbing to wildfires, potential earthquakes, even the occasional volcano. Winters are getting colder and summers are getting hotter in places where they've never had to prepare for such extremes. Where do you suggest that everyone in a flood zone or any of the other dangerous places go?