Hurricane Ian in Cape Coral, Florida + Storm surge and aftermath 

So happy for you guys but yet heartbroken for so many others.

God bless you. I’m glad you’re okay!

I'm glad you're ok. Did you have an emergency bag to take w/ you? I evacuated, since it was headed toward Tampa at first. but, I've never been to a public shelter. Did you guys feel safe? Was the food what you brought with? Was there anything you wished you had packed to bring w/ you that you needed? thanks

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So glad you didn’t have water damage…. I think this is a bond that we all share and will never forget ..in a world that seemed void of humanity I am humbled to see humanity all around me … in spite of the storm I am so happy I chose to live out the rest of my life with so many kind and wonderful people …and no more snow or ice ! Lol. I’ve only been here a year and a half and every month I find a reason to love it more which is so such a relief…I left my home of 60:years …having a terminal Illness I wanted my husband and I to have the rest of our time in a beautiful place…but I had my fears. Was I making a mistake. I knew my husband didn’t want the cold weather anymore and I took the chance of leaving my doctors to give him a lifestyle I knew he’d love ..since we couldn’t travel as we had planned in retirement..my disease had effected not only my life and future plans but his as well…so I definitely was concerned…so it has been so wonderful to realize that the only thing better than the weather was the people… I am so very grateful (except the drivers…that isn’t so thrilling lol) and we are going on our 43 rd year together ….although I’m not happy about the storm… the ppl and leadership,with an awesome Governor has inspired me ….I hope you get all fixed quickly and have a fabulous life here

Welcome to CC from a former Central New Yorker. We all pitched in to help get the hurricane shutters up in our neighborhood and passed out hot coffee the morning after. After blizzards in NY, dust storms in AZ, a Cat 4 is just another addition to the resume. 😉

We used a 50 gallon water bladder for the tub. It’s on Amazon and comes with a pump.kept the water covered.

But as a human species, we think everything is ours for the taking. They will rebuild and it will happen again, just like they do in California after every major fire. The only thing that will stop people is high insurance rates, but even that won't stop people who can afford it.

same w/ quakes tornados blizzards floods volcano not safe anywhere except maybe old atlas nuke silos in Nebraska

@@williamboorn2097 exactly. I'd still rather live here than anywhere else.

you're talking about a huge percentage of the population that can get hit with a storm like this. the strongest hurricane to hit new york landed on long island with 120 mph winds. ive been in 90 mph winds in massachusetts and watched heavy duty anderson windows bow under the pressure. you just can't move everyone from the coast. the reasonable step would gave been to get away from coal and oil decades ago, when the technology was young but becoming viabl3e, and it was crushed by giant oil and gas companies and their influence on subsidies and taxation. look it up.

@@williamboorn2097 -- Good point. I'm in an area of California that is threatened by wildfire every summer. I have lived like this all my life. It's the price I pay for living in a beautiful forest. We got the first good soaking rain today. Finally, I can breathe a sigh of relief, knowing the fire danger is over until next summer.

Glad you enjoyed it

A lot of the homes in the Cape are built on mounds, which I always thought looked kinda silly when I first came here. Now we see how important that design was!

@@MoMoMyPup10 Good comeback

Have to give props to Dr Rick Knabb, he was saying the storm could well hit Fort Myers a couple days before the track from the NHC shifted away from tampa

I lived in Cape Coral , raised my children and had three motorcycle shops there and My parents are buried there in the military cemetery … My heart hurts. Please know you are all in our prayers. Hopefully repairs and rebuilding are moving along. Blessings ❤

I 100% agree with you.

What's "brave" about staying in a mandatory evacuation zone?. Some that did will never be found and others are being carried out in body bags.

I still want to know what's happened to the animals - in everything I've seen all over u-tubeI haven't seen anyone with an animal and that seems doubly weird considering how people sometimes treat their animals better than humans! Just sayin'....

Agreed 👍 For whatever reason we always get them at night in Tampa Bay area! Night landfalls are the worst!

Night landfills are the worst imo. Can't imagine this being at night time and not being to see that surge coming in

Was that due to river flooding? Just north east of you had boat loads of rain fall

@@noahpage7459 no, well, storm surge. Amazing storm surge!

I’m not sure where you are getting your information from but Hurricane Ian never had winds of 180, even over open water. Let alone gusts over 200mph

Were you here?

I'm from Boston, now in Florida. I don't remember the year, but a noreaster knocked out power for me for several days. Not fun in the freezing temps.

Hard to say for sure. It started to recede a bit as soon as the winds shifted from southerlies to westerlies. By morning all of the water had receded back into the canal system.

A bit to the west of Santa Barbara.

I believe that was a CN-235. But it may be the same plane you saw as the video is from 9/29 at 10am

West

When the internet came back they began to work again.

Luckily thats just the way hurricanes form. Winds tend to be strongest in the northwest quadrant of the storm

@@noahpage7459 Actually it's usually the northeast quadrant. It's pretty rare that the west side is stronger (as was the case with Ian) Offshore though when the storm was a cat 5 off the coast of Naples, it seems that the cat 5 winds actually occurred on the right side, that side just happened to lose a lot of strength before coming ashore.

@@tvold9204 oh you’re right, my mistake! Guess it could have been worse. Though, there was a gust, I believe, that had an unofficial measurement of 140 in south cape. Which I believe is the strongest land measurement from the storm. But that may be an unreliable report.

@@noahpage7459 Yeah I saw the same thing but I bet you in places with no observations (Cayo Costa/Sanibel/Cape Haze Peninsula area) there were gusts quite a bit stronger than even that.

I couldn’t tell you. I don’t go to Fort Myers often

You guys had so much rain fall up stream I’m surprised the water didn’t raise even longer. I saw videos of entire RVs under water along the river

@@noahpage7459 I got luck it didn't get on the house. Literally 4more inches and it would have. It was crazy. I had to kayak to dry ground to get rescued

The 3rd boat was gone before morning and the other two were parked on land. The owners of the smaller first boat came and were able to push it into the water the next day. The pontoon took a while to be removed.

Hurricane/impact windows built specifically for storms like this. Everything that could easily be moved was taken off the floor.

All houses built in Florida after hurricane Andrew are required to be able to withstand 150mph winds

Never imagined I’d be able to see the milky way from inside a city of 200,000 people

@@noahpage7459Not sure what part of the Cape you live in, but you’re lucky lol. I get more light pollution I guess

@@BobRoss-kt4yu it was after the hurricane when the whole city had no power. So no lights or light pollution.

The cone is only supposed to represent a 66% chance of the very center of the eye passing somewhere inside of the cone. The actual eye wall and the outer bands will not be confined to the cone.

@@noahpage7459 People died because they thought that cone meant they wouldn't feel the effects of the storm.

@@mojitomomlab unfortunately the cone is not terribly intuitive for most people

Just remember they may and other still have their home standing..but everything in their house needs to be thrown out and walls torn out at the very least to a certain height if not completely gutted....so yes in many ways fortunate..but they still suffered a great loss..

@@tammywragg6254 I understand that & it costs money to replace things & make repairs. But I'm thinking of those whose only home or business was obliterated. The scale of the disaster is so immense the needs are so varied but i hope those in the greatest need get help & aren't forgotten.

@@marrymeglenndanzig The help is absolutely out there but you have to go find it. Not coming to you.

@@marrymeglenndanzig I'm thinking of anyone who suffered any damage at all. And it is in bad taste to say its "ammusing" in any way.

the storm was not projected to come here. It turned and surprised everyone. Not many people did a whole lot of preparation for the storm thinking it was going to be a near miss. Media is a lot a fault because of the hype they bring and pushing THEIR viewpoint. Mighty dangerous storm to be guessing at. They continued to claim north of Tampa until it was all but too late.

What lake?

Is your friend still missing to this day? I'm totally heartbroken for Florida! All my prayers