Agreed, Living in Adelaide, southern Australia we don't get hurricanes and I just can't imagine the devestation and destruction done by these storms. The winds also were howling.
It's quite an experience. You hear all sorts of howling and whistling from the wind. You'll hear your house creak and crack like it never has before. Your walls and roof move with the wind gusts and it feels like your whole house is gonna come down.
@@chasecavalier6316 living in Colorado the houses definitely make all kinds of crazy creaking and popping noises in 50-100 mph wind. It’s often very windy here.
I will remember that night for the rest of my life. My backyard tree came down and thankfully didn't hit my house. Had to get rid of the rest of it because it was decaying inside. I was playing world of warcraft at 11 pm and my power went out very shortly. I remember my power being out for like 2 weeks and no internet for a month. Irma was extremely damaging for my area but thankfully not to my house.
We have a place on Marco Island... Got absolutely nailed head on by this particular hurricane. Thankfully after the legendary hurricane Andrew, the insurance company made us get hurricane proof windows/glass sliding doors. They cost a ton, which sucked, but the Feckin glas is ridiculously thick, it's basically bulletproof glass so you can imagine... But all the frames are also reinforced and the tracks for the sliding doors could probably double as train tracks. Lol. All In all, glad we had though, because we suffered no serious damage of any kind. Those bunker ass windows/doors are really impressive.
Thank you, Jose! :) P.S. I'm keeping on eye on your namesake. But it's funny that a cyclone with a sexy-red-hot Latino name might end up as some junk low off New England. Lol.
Wow! What a scary gust on 5:39! Irma was really a historic storm in this epic season! Looks like the Atlantic will apologize for being so lazy the last decade!
@@cyclonevic744 Probably. I live like 1/4 mile from Naples Airport (where that gust was recorded) and I'm pretty sure I caught it on tape. The entire storm was a beast, but there were a few gusts that were insane. We watched the entire 1st half of the storm from our garage with the door open (the wind was either blowing away from us or perpendicular to us). Once the eye hit, we did a little damage assessment of the neighborhood, closed the garage door down and braced it with 2x4's and moved to the back porch.
I love your videos! I love how quiet you are when capturing intense moments, and the overall quality of the footage is great! You are by far the best hurricane chaser on RU-vid.
"Ciclone bomba" pra ser mais específico kkkk Eu estava no meio do ciclone aqui em São José SC. Foi tenso demais, mas muito rápido. Lá em Governador Celso Ramos foi muito pior
Incredible footage, Josh. I’m re-living all these Hurricane memories while in quarantine. FYI - I live in ft Lauderdale. While we didn’t get the eyewall like you did, there were some very strong gusts here that I won’t soon forget Irma! And wow was Florida lucky last year with Dorian!
Watching this video still gives me the chills, I was watching the storm come in, losing power because the winds were getting really powerful. Thankfully my weather station console had batteries working, the winds of the time the power went out was around 26 MPH, which would have been 60-80 MPH, our house is surrounded by many trees which blocks the weather station, the weather station was pretty high up anyways. Thankfully the station didn't fall over but the winds were high, if there was no trees the winds would have been higher than 55 MPH, it would have been 100 MPH and my weather station would have fallen and broke, more damage, more work. Looking at the map of Irma, the center of low pressure went over my street and my house. I was in the eye of the storm, the floods were incredible the eye was incredible, the skies were getting brighter. I was especially surprised that the back side wasn't bad. Thanks for another great video Josh. I hope to chase hurricanes like you do in the future when I'm actually an adult and can do whatever I want, haha. Garrett
I think the underrated this storm. We had a near direct hit with a cat 3 Hurricane Wilma and Irma was way worse, even though they said it was only at 115 mph sustained when it made landfall on Marco. What's even crazier is that Naples Airport (about a 1/4 mile from my house) is where the highest wind gust was recorded (142 mph). How is it that it supposedly weakened once it hit Marco, yet Marco didn't get the highest winds? I personally think it was a cat 4. Like I said, Wilma had higher sustained winds at landfall and was nothing compared to what I experienced in Irma. And I was driving thru the worst part of Wilma.
Yup, its actually very frightening. I live in Miami, and the way our complex is built, theres houses in back of each other creating basically like an alley in the back that you can walk through. So when the strong winds sweep through the alley, sounds like a train. It's crazy.
No, winds at my location did not reach hurricane force on the backside. It was a classic "halfacane"-- violent front side, weak backside. Thanks for watching it, Kevin! :)
As a Naples resident that also stayed for the storm, I was by the Naples Airport. I was also able to watch the storm, and I thought your footage was absolutely amazing and very similar to what I was also seeing. It did also seem like we only got a half cane with the eye. Because at one point I knew we were in the eye but I was expecting another episode of the hurricane force winds. And it didn't seem like we got it. Naples got very lucky because it could have been worse.
Was at the same hotel you were at. What an incredible experience! I knew there was something different about that sign ;) Awesome footage. Hard to keep steady in wind like that. Glad you guys made it out okay.
Hey, thanks, Emily! :) Nice to hear from you, and glad you got through the storm OK. I'm glad you dug the video-- thank you. The building was solid-- it protected us. :)
Good job showing; 1) how long it storms before the eye wall even hits; 2) how quickly the winds accelerate in the eye wall; and 3) the amazing calm in the eye. I have been in several hurricanes and you even captured the eerie roar that goes along with the eye wall.
Wow great video! Grew up in Clearwater Florida and moved to Indiana in 1996. Moving back down to Florida next summer and I can’t freaking wait! Love Florida! ♥️🌴 Hurricane and all!
Amazing footage of hurricane Irma. The sound of Irma remainds me hurricane Odile 3years ago.. (September-14-2014) Congrats man.. Keep doing this... And i told you.. Norma wasn't for you.
Never been through a hurricane but Had some friends who have at the mobile home Park they lived in in Naples Florida ! Ive been to Naples Florida but not during a hurricane !! They had a bad hurricane when they were not home took off the mobile home roof in Enchanted Shores in Naples Florida !
Excellent footage and great location. I imagine you chose this spot because the NHC forecast track had IRMA tracking just a few miles west of Naples. As we all know IRMA took a slight jog to the east which had huge implications for Naples, Fort Myers and Tampa (less intense western eyewall, peak winds out of the ENE instead of South or SSW and lower storm surge). If IRMA took this track damage could've been much worse.
Hey, thanks, Ian! :) I was trying to get in the eye. Up until a few hours before landfall, I thought it was going to be much further up the coast-- the Euro computer model was pointing that way-- and I was getting ready to drive to Sarasota. But then I could see on radar that the storm was moving due N basically, and I didn't need to move. The exact center passed right over Naples, so we got more than the weaker W side. That having been said, I agree with you, winds and-- more importantly-- surge could have been a bit worse if the center had stayed just a little further W.
Honestly, the surge maps that were out for Collier were terrifying, and I'm "only" in a 1-3 ft surge zone, worst case scenario. When you see things like 12-15 ft surge forecast and you know that there are people who live in those areas, it's frightening. The county opened up a school that was in that surge zone as a shelter (Lely) and then immediately had to start moving those folks. When we saw the water getting pulled out of Naples Bay (down on Venetian Village; I think I had seen video of you being there), we were gobsmacked. I had heard stories of that happening when Donna had struck on *the same exact day* in 1960, but seeing it happen in real time was astonishing.
You nailed it josh great videos. My family members survived Hurricane Irma in Tampa FL just a couple of miles away from Naples FL with no injuries. I tell you hurricane Irma was a monster of a storm that I never seen before of a Category 5 hurricane with 185 mph winds and I like how your camera captures everything like hurricane odeil in 2014 just incredible damage in Cabo San lucas Mexico anyway good luck on your next hurricane chasing
This is gonna be the most random comment on this section, but i just had an ad, and i’m watching this in the middle of the night, and literally the ad is saying “if your seeing this ad, it’s most likely midnight for you” and it is. Anyways, amazing video as always!
Hi! Me and my 4-year-old daughter are leaving this comment to say thank you for teaching her about what hurricanes are like. She's getting ready for her first hurricane as a big kid here and wants to know all about what they're like. --Dad and Marcie
Bad as it is, try sitting in it when it's a category 5, like when it hit the Caribbean. When hurricanes hit the US, they are much weaker, and you have help coming from the rest of the country immediately. In the Caribbean, you are on your own for a few weeks until the harbor and airport are remotely usable again...
@Vlad Țepeș Not all the time would it be weak......I mean, Look at Hurricane Katrina & Hurricane Sandy.....The current hurricane, Hurricane Dorian is expected to blow roofs off and flood some areas in the State of Florida, Half of the entire eastcoast of the United States is in deepshit trouble as it's going to SLAM us as a Category 4 Hurricane; Nearly a Category 5 hurricane. Hurricane Dorian should be weakening if America is in a much hurricane weakening ally, Instead, Dorian is only getting much more stronger as it pushes to the United States in Florida.
WHD Studios 2 Hurricane Dorian might be the worst hurricane yet. Irma was scary though because we had friends who lived in the area where it hit badly and now they are trying to prepare for Dorian just in case.
Eh, sometimes they are weaker in central America .Take Micheal and Katrina for instance. IF Dorian woulda slammed into FL it woulda been a cat 5 as well. Stalled , smashing some of the islands.
I went through this in Naples. Worst one I’ve ever been through. What was amazing afterwards was the amount of debris from the vegetation and trees downed! Took months to clean up!
For those who have never been in a hurricane THIS is EXACTLY why they sound like and even scarier than this.. I stayed for hurricane Ike in TX and the noises were so terrifying and lasted for 12 hours straight because Ike was such a big storm. It sounded like a woman screaming terrified at the top of her lungs and a gong constantly getting hit..
Irma was a very powerful storm. Was living in Lehigh acres at this time. It was very scary. The noise from the wind was undiscribable. So loud , had to cover my ears. Mother nature is so powerful. The after math is horrible. Had no power for almost 2 weeks. Gas for your cars was scarce. Food and water the same way. Luckily our home was not damaged. Many people lost their roofs and their homes. Never want to go through anything like that again. But that's part of living in Florida. You can take it or leave it. We decided to leave it. Florida is a beautiful state.
daytime vids are the best. i feel the same way about any storm. that's probably why this video looks just as savage as some of your others even though irma was a little weaker by the time it got to florida.
Alex B 10/20/17. Still more to be picked up. Thats the dread.after the storm. Living with debris..took 10 days.just to pile it and.clear the grounds. Another 2 weeks too get dumped. Hilite..lights after 12 hrs.
@@Austin-do8se It made landfall here in Naples as a very strong cat 3, but was at one point a cat 5 with 185 mph sustained winds. Personally, I think it may have still been a cat 4 when it hit just based off of experience with Hurricanes. We had Wilma's eye wall swipe us in Naples and that was a cat 3....and Irma made Wilma look like a bitch. 1st hurricane to actually scare me
Absolutely some of the most incredible storm footage I've ever seen and although I've been hearing people say it wasn't that strong this leaves little doubt in my mind that that was a violent storm that could have been a lot worse if Naples and surrounding areas weren't up to code with stronger structures. Especially the one that was filmed out of. Looks like it was a nice safe solid cement house. Nonetheless really really awesome video of a very violent destructive storm.
Jesus, this was scary. The only reason I was scared is because my grandfather lives in Florida. He didn't even evacuate, but he was safe after the storm passed. He was INSANELY lucky to have made it through this.
Terrific footage! Naples got it good! (Bad). Over in Miramar (south of Fort Lauderdale) where I was got off lightly compared to the west coast of Florida but we still took a beating.
My rescue dog Brinley was lost out in this storm. I can't even imagine what this was like for him, and how he was feeling during this. I don't know how he survived, but by God's good graces. He was so fortunate. I am so grateful for the people and shelter that found him and took care of him, before we found each other. God's blessings for caring people, to support each other in difficult times such as these. Take care everyone.
My cousin was in St Maarten when Irma hit. Got the full power. He’s alright he just had cuts and bruises but the company didn’t make it. He’s a skipper on the yacht that goes around the Caribbean
Well done Joss and another super effort. Can't help but notice a little grey hair.....must be all the worry of catching the eye :) Please keep them coming. Regards from Australia
i was in Hurricane IRMA and i never even knew at first i was sleeping and then out of nowhere a tree smash the roof nothing broek but i woke up and look at the window and it was blowing i looked on the radar and stuff and it was Hurricane IRMA i was like omg
How did Hurricane Irma tore that sign down unbelievable an incredibly powerful storm in Naples and great footage josh really hard to get your camera steady though hope you got out okay from Irma. P.S my family ride out Hurricane Irma with no injuries in Tampa Florida good luck to you josh.
