ABC News chief meteorologist Ginger Zee reports on the conditions and destruction from the storm in Fort Myers. HURRICANE IAN LIVE UPDATES: abcn.ws/3E1U7go #ABCNews #hurricaneian #ian #hurricaneian #fortmyers #puntagorda #leecounty
My prayers are with you guys. Feeling so overwhelmed and teary eyes watching this. I can't imagine what the ppl are going through. Sending warmth, love and Sunshine from Jamaica 🇯🇲❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏
I Live in Central Florida, Last Night around 3:00am Was Unbelievable. The Winds Were So Strong That We Could Literally Feel Our House Vibrating. We’re Currently Without Power And All Our Trees Are Uprooted. Truly Insane
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I live in Orlando area. By the grace of God, I survived. No damage to my property. Power is on. From these devastation pictures, I see that many are not as lucky. My prayers go out to all affected Floridians.
Ugghhh I went through this last week here in Atlantic Canada so I sympathize with you. Our Category 3 storm combined with another system to give us a "Sandy" with a side of "Dorian", and it was the strongest/largest storm to ever hit Canada. God bless you, your family, and neighbors. I hope you are able to get things together soon. 🇨🇦🙏🇨🇦🙏🇨🇦🙏
Exactly! Disaster pathway don't block by people because nature take it course.. people must respect the path of water, seashore is a nature path and don't allow people to live there so dangerous.
I live on Guam. I know how much devastating hurricane we call it typhoons can be we had paka. It lifted small car's and cracked concrete, destroyed a gas station. Peeled metals of the roofs. Left us with no power, water, food. After 3 days the freezer, fridge started to defrost. We was on our own. And no gas because the reserve gas was burning up. We had to wait 15 days before the federal help came. And then we waited 16, 24 hours getting in line. Waiting for the public service to give out food stamps, cash 💸 help. Even with cash,food stamps there was no food to buy. No gas for the car's. Thank God we had chicken and other animals. To cook and feed the family. The hospital's had back up generator but with out gas ⛽ well??they were overwhelmed with injured people coming in.they had to wait almost 6,hours to see a doctor. Without gas the government pulled in the school busses to take people from the mayor's offices to where you want to go. And they really Tried everything they can help. Some of us was just mad at the people in public office workers. And started to yell at them. I pay taxes 😒. And they where mad at us saying yes just like me. It was a catastrophe. Because none of us wanted to go home. with nothing when they started to close the doors. They had to call the police. They started to talk to the people. Just come tomorrow. They are going to give out numbers. You don't need to wait. You can come to the front line. So at least we can have the help we needed desperately.
@@trendingsocialthings6799 if you are serious about coming to Guam 🇬🇺. Let me know. It is a beautiful island 🏝. Belongs to USA. And Guam is where America's day begins. Ever since covid 19 we lost a lot of Japanese tourists. It was a chunk of our incomes. Japanese people love Guam. I hope they can come back as much as before. Now with the monkey pox virus??we are all hoping the Governor is not going to shut it down again.
Send money. Prayers do nothing. Besides. If there was a higher being. This was it's will. Why would you question its way of things. Basically saying your agenda is more important than this beings agenda. Wouldn't that be insulting? Then if it did answer your prayer and not others prayers would that be playing favoritism? That's so not like a superior being. Have any of your unrealistic prayers ever been answered? So if I pray for a million dollars. Without working for it. At some point I will get a million dollars if I pray 24/7? Your brainwashed. It's time to realize your brainwashed. Wake up.
How devastating and horrifying! I could not imagine what its like living in florida right now. I pray and hope everyone stays safe and there are no casualties. Love, thoughts and prayers from New Mexico. 🙏 Especially to the people who have lost everything.
Thank you so much for your concern. I’m a Floridian resident currently in my parents house. Our power goes off every once in awhile. I’m grateful for my dad thinking ahead and installing wooden planks to cover the front door so water can’t get in.
My former co worker recently to be near her family in Port Charlotte. Sending love, prayers, and God's Blessings to everyone in Florida.🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Yeah prayers go out to them I live in Louisiana went thru Laura and delta within a month from each-other. Being without power for over a month suck. So I know how it feels. Prayers
It's time for the guy with the Spanish name to put everyone who wants to get to safety on planes and bus them all to downtown Martha's Vineyard. Who's laughing now folks. Ian The Destroyer is the justice from god..remember he's watching.
I'm Brazilian and I still don't understand why the US houses are made of wood, here they are all brick and concrete, they would be intact even with a tornado.
Wood and press wood is cheaper than brick and stone. But, why build homes so close to the ocean when they can be swept away. Nothing man made can over power the ocean. We should be thankful that this type of weather is seasonal and not every month.
@@brightsky7826 So it must be really expensive, because with all the history of disasters that the country has and they still use wood. because Brazil is a country with a poor majority and all the houses are made of bricks.
Some homes have their parts pre-made in a factory. It’s faster to build homes with wood too. Brick would not only be less cost effective to transport but more difficult to install as well. Also depending on where you live, brick homes may not be viable solution. On the west coast for example; a brick foundation would be more likely to crack during an earthquake and harder to repair afterward.
Prayers to everybody out there. Although tropical states are Beautiful in nature, they come with deadly disasters. Glad I live a mile high above sea elevation
I live in Florida. My family wasn't affected nearly as bad as the people in this video, as my family was not in Ian's direct path like others were.. Watching this is horrible and terrifyingly shocking. 😨 I hope many people are doing okay and can get a speedy recovery. God Bless everyone horribly affected by this hurricane. 🙏👼
@@yucruuu What I meant by "not affected" was that the area where I live was not in the direct path of the hurricane. We were on the outside of Ian's path. Of course I was affected emotionally. My whole family was. I have some cousins and a Uncle who lives down there.. We were always keeping in touch with them to make sure they were safe.
I live in Florida as well and am blessed that we didn’t suffer this type of damage!😢I pray for all those who suffered damage and loss. It was very scary!
Mother nature is loving, comforting, nurturing. Destructive, shockingly devastating 😢 💔 😞, super power, strength of devastating. We humans are powerless to stop it, control it. When paka came. We had I think 🤔 3 casualties?? 1 old woman was looking out the window. And at that moment the window exploded.and 1 piece of it entered the heart. No help because it was to strong for the ambulance. Or any vehicle can't come they had to wait 6 hours. To make a call power lines was all over the roads. Tree's all over the island. My friend was stuck inside her house. Because paka peeled her roof. She was hiding in the closet. The coconuts was soooo dangerous. They started to break the windows. 1 of my husband relatives found her house empty because paka opened her back door and front door. Everything was washed away. 😪 not 1 furniture. And the most horrible and shocking thing was. She opened the Graves dig and took the coffin ⚰ they are washed-out to the sea. But some of them got stuck by the Tree's debry. The families had to identify the dead.
Much prayers and blessings to ya'll coming from the Bahamas 🇧🇸🙏🙏I pray that God will continue to strength bless and watch over ya'll in jesus name amen
It's totally devastating for EVERYONE living there in FLORIDA & the economy will most likely be affected due to all the damage, loss of so many cars under water, home repairs & rebuilding that will have to be done & the insurance money that this will take is enormous as well, but yes there will be some jobs for those skilled workers & money will be made by suppliers & sellers of wood, shingles for roofs & home goods too etc, but still it's so sad & don't know if there were any deaths yet, but I have never seen such coverage like this of it being filmed as it's happening of roofs flying off & a refrigerator floating in the water, etc-that I recall anyway! Must be absolutely terrifying & stressful for all the people & having to leave home to safety! I have been & am praying for all that have to deal with this hurricane, floods, etc from Ian! Winds of 155, not much survives in this kind of weather! God be with you! I was born in Florida but only lived there as a baby & then my parents moved but visited every year in July as a child & was just there in 2018 in the middle of September-and I have lots of relatives that still live there, hope & pray they are safe too! My heart goes out to you all!
I live in tampa, the story was scary but I am devastated for my neighbors on the coast. My hearts are with you guys Of course work is still making us go in today, don’t ever work corporate guys lol
Holy cow! These images give me Flashback. Just like Hurricane Maria. My only hope is for you guys to get the power back soon. Things can be replaced but lives are at stake without it.
That is terrible! Heavy storm ugly I feel for those people out there. So traumatic I am just blown away. I wish you all the best out there I hope relief comes and a lot of people made it through. That is sad.
Watching from 🇯🇲 ,my body swell seeing whats happening guys stay safe life is what matters you might loose material things but thank God life 🙏 is not lost.prayers out keep safe yall reporters stay safe 🙏 great job 👍 love and safety ❤
Bloody hell, those winds and the seas swell, I hope everyone is safe, one thing that amazes me is that those trees didn't capitulate, still standing after all that, wow
All the Florida newbies learned a valuable lesson, if they survived. Hurricanes, especially Gulf of Mexico hurricanes are not to be taken lightly. You have several days warnings to get out. Failure to do so can cost you your life. In this case it did to many people.
Thanks for the prayers we need it ... This is awfully I can't believe we made it through here in Zephyrhills just south of us not so good prayers to all help is needed quickly ..
I’m sorry but if you stayed and your stuck that’s on you. Why should resources be allocated to save you when the state of Florida provided many modes of transportation to leave for free. They literally said catastrophic flooding and storm surge as high as 18ft and you stayed welp now look at you 🤷🏾♀️
Prays to all affected. Having lived through Andrew in Miami and Michael in Panama City, I have one bit of advise. The recovery part is a marathon, please take your time, be patient, you survived, don't risk your well being or life in the aftermath. I don't live in Callaway (neighborhood in Panama City) but a friend who does told me of a man who got crushed under a tree while working with a chainsaw in his yard. He died a while later because no one with the right heavy equipment could get through to help him. Please be carful the after the storm part is a marathon, be safe. God bless.
prayers go out to them I live in Louisiana went thru Laura and delta within a month from each-other. Being without power for over a month suck. So I know how it feels. Prayers!
I am so worried about my family now in Titusville. My husband's side of his family is there. His cousins all live there and one lives in Tampa that came there to stay.
My prayers go out to people who lost the places that they live in and for people who lost loved ones. I can understand if people wanted to stay. Sometimes , they have nowhere to go, or unable to get to a shelter. Though the storm didn’t hit here. People lost their condos and houses due to tornadoes. This was very close to where my father lives and in the next town from where I live. I pray for them as well. 🙏
@@cindyeisenberg8367 will take more than that. Will take actual physical work for those people to be ok and continue have somewhat the life they’ve been used to or trying build for themselves. They have to have that internal strength. The knowledge awareness of what’s possible to do where they will make their next move. I hate this was so powerful and destroyed so much. Some people are or were able to just up n leave not a scratch to their lives however yes you call somewhere your home and expected to keep safety. When you are not safe in a home no matter the conditions. It’s like what kind of life reality we actually living in. All this fancy stuff someone wanting to be better look over another person. Togetherness rn is what’s needed. True unity and not even just in fla. they have many states around them that just like hurricane Katrina. They’ll have to do a lot ground work and seems like a lot of build back will have take place. People love Florida all over the world honestly. We k know this
My prayers are with you guys May God help Americans get over this its worse than the pandemic God bless America from dhanraj pabaroo from Sangre grande sahadeen tr Trinidad and Tobago I am praying for you alll God have mercy bless bless love love
In Seminole Florida/ Pinellas County. We literally dogged a bullet a few hours before the storm made landfall. Models for the past few days before the storm predicted the storm would collide into Clearwater, and hit over our area. I could not imagine the damage that would have happened to us if the original landfall was too happen. Horrible to see this happen to our southern County neighbors. Will try to help in any way we can, and hope everyone there can preserve whatever they can in the wake of this monster.
When you watch something like this. It makes you think 🤔?? How small insignificant we are against mother nature. And how helpless we are. She is nurturing, loving, protecting. And how devastating, destroying, rebuilding, reshaping, brutal, merciless, the biggest power in the world 🌎. She will shake us of like a dog with fleas. Don't mean nothing to her.
I feel for all who are experiencing this nightmare. The one thing I can't help but thinking is .. this extreme weather is going to keep happening in the coming years, should you stay there and endure or find another area to live in? 🇺🇸💨
I wish more journalists would use the word “decimated” correctly. To decimate is to reduce something by one tenth. To destroy something is to annihilate it. Ian annihilated those areas.
this is what happens when you call everything that comes from nature a catastrophic issue, or constantly saying how many millions of people are under various weather "watches" just so your tag line can include a number in the millions. they aren't leaving themselves many words to use as they misuse to death the latest one they hope will scare you into clicking. Also while I don't excuse anyone who didn't evac because it was just global warming hype don't get much sympathy from me, there are bound to be some, probably older and we know how many seniors are there, who maybe just have catastrophe fatigue which over time just makes you start ignoring the dangers.
None. Their profits will be down this quarter but they'll be fine. The only time they 'go bankrupt' is when they shuffle the money around so they don't have to pay out.
Hi there everyone! Thx for taking risks to inform us about this devastatung hurricane! Thoughts and Prayers to the Victims and big thanks to the rescuers. II. Always hard to remain powerless in the face of Natural Disasters-Wather-related and Weather-related Disasters. III. Another evidence of the Vulnerability of our Coastal-city-based economy and civilization. IV. We'll come together as One Nation to rebuild those cities and states and learn from that.
