HURRICANE IAN - San Carlos Island, Doc Fords, Salty Sam's Marina, Bonita Bills Compilation 

Watching from Australia and can't believe how bad it is, wish everyone the best to get back on your feet. Thanks for capturing this, love to see more on the rebuilding and clean up too, just can't imagine how some of those boats will get recovered.

Sad watch from Canada....had many fine times at Bonita Bills and the beach strip...God bless

Thanks for putting this video together so the world can see the Heartbreak this storm caused. Many lost their homes, businesses, jobs, and way of life. I know that many of the retirement mobile home villages will probably not be permitted to rebuild due to new building laws, many of these were awesome close knit communities that are simply gone.

Thank you for this video. A lot of us had nowhere to run. We had to hunker down where we were, not realizing how close we were to potential annihilation. This is the fourth week since ... I'm glad I'm only seeing it now. God be with all affected, especially those who mourn. God be with all the kind people who showed up with water, food, and generators to charge our phones so we could let our families know we were ok.

The boats were tossed like tinker toys into the mangroves. I’ve seen it in person and the raw POWER of this hurricane was beyond anything I could have imagined

So many memories. Dammit, just dammit. Sending much love to all who live, work and played along coastal Lee & Collier Counties. Godspeed y’all.

The scale of devastating is mind boggling

Was there at Salty Sam's (12:40) with the Mrs this past March for the first time. Hopefully it was not also the last time!

My heart is broken. RIP Santos house. Mahalo to Bonita Bills for the thousands of awesome breakfasts and peel-n-eat shrimp, especially after Irma when none of us had power. A hui hou.

Every time I'd go to Doc Ford, I'd see that tiny mobile home park next to Gulf Star and always said to myself, I'd hate to be in one of those tiny homes during a hurricane.

I played Bonita Bills' with my Band the Wayward souls Monday before this happened!! So sad to see!!!!!

We vacation in this area for many years.Sorry for the disruption of lives, business, and homes. Matanzas, Doc Ford's, the $2 beer at the lime green block building on the right cattycorner from the Chevron ( Fantasys). Rebuild it, Florida. You're strong.

If I knew how to work on boats or had a dump truck or an end dump I see tons of work got to be a good side

It’s absolutely crazy to think I was down there for the Fourth of July this year, driving right through Fort Myers right by Doc Ford’s and Dixie Fish. I also ate at Snug Harbor a few times. Seems like a total loss. Sad. I don’t mean to make it about me, but it’s just that we are cognitive dissonance like I think it’s totally fine still but the reality is it isn’t I can’t really comprehend it.

Awful destruction. Having visited this area it is really heartbreaking thinking about all the lives, families affected by this

I live here and this is the worst I have ever experienced and now see, the horrible damage. 😢

good time to be in the boat recovery/salvage biz !

this is so very sad, lost of lives, lost of homes, lost of jobs, friends, family, pets, every thing, so so very sad....

I can't get over how many boats apparently survived on the moorings there. I guess those things are screwed into the bottom pretty well.

From Orlando, pretty impressive. Do you guys all have your power back yet, or most of you? Our damage even in Charlie, power line wise, didn't look nearly that bad and we were out at the house for three weeks. AND taking a large tree off of the roof, so power for AC would have been nice. Bought window units for the living room and bedroom so we can run them on a small generator now. Still a PIA, but massively better. This storm did very little in Orlando area, a few places of local flooding. Some lakes and rivers REALLY high, like Jessup/Monroe/St Johns, but very little wind damage. Power was out three days this time, but with AC available it wasn't nearly as bad. Most everything else is secondary, IMO, from a power standpoint.

what day did you take the video over Bonita Bills? my boat is in there and it looks like it may have moved a little from when i "tied" it. I was sitting against a submerged boat that kept me from moving it and it looks like that boat may have completed sinking.

How did the boats inside the storage building fair?

What a Sad reality, it doesn't get any worst. 100% Lost☹

How do they dispose of all these boats? Where do they go?

How long to fix this nightmare..I could not emagine...the trash ..where to put it all

So sad to see so much destruction 😢

Are you heading north or south on the 865?

This is so Sade 😲😕 to see My pears 🙏 go out to all the people

Whew!

Que deserto? triste demais

Can’t believe people were able to afford to buy all those big boats!

I can see why insurance companies are scurrying away like rats. The bill for carting just one of those yachts back to the basin will be 5 figures

Nobody expects boats and mobile homes to be anything but heaps of trash after storm hurricanes. But for the money spent for decades of enjoyment the risk of total loss is nothing if you think about it. Thing about hurricanes in these modern times are we know they are coming. Hopefully people heed warnings and get out of harms way. It is those places with earthquakes and massive tornadoes the nation needs to question letting people live!

Don’t see A. G T either helping out nor Simon.

The funeral music ... ?

Where is Hollywood, Johnny Depp and Amber Heard, Stephen King? All these people we have shit about but there is nobody stepping forward. Floridians need help. They have lost everything. Have not seen any news from Insurance companies.

Weeping,

Was there in Nov. 2023,there is still a lot of devastation and destruction that has not been taken care.Thus government has failed those who have been impacted by this tragedy. More concerned with aiding non citizen migrants and making sure felons are treated right, than making sure our citizens are taken care of and can live and work and recreate in safe, crime free environments

Mother Nature reminding you who really owns the place.......humans are just very unappreciative guests

Didn’t mean Oliver. Lol

Where is Elon Musk, Bill Gates, etc. Where are the billionaires? ???????

Must be terrible there.

You pays your big bucks and you takes your chances . Go figure .

Zc in TV

I was in Keyport after Sandy it was the same thing but they recovered pretty quick

Get out of there and stay out it's only going. To getvwirse and Insurance is unaffordable it's the highest in the nation

SO hard to watch.

You know to share and someone else's tragedy is actually a clinical medical disease you should get help you're not even a news agency to some RU-vidr

Sell and get the hell out

Where is Trump ? Hello. Mr Trump. Hello. Sir. Florida is screwed up.

I do not feel sorry for these people at all they know where they live and the risk associated with it