Hurricane Ian - Returning Home
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.ย. 2024
- As hurricane Ian was approaching Cape Coral Florida, the forecast went from bad to worse. I had originally planned to ride out the storm at home. I estimated that the house would start flooding with 7’ of storm surge water. The initial estimates were 6-12 feet surges. After consulting with many long term residents, no one in my neighborhood remembers any water ever reaching houses in this area of SW Cape Coral. But when the weathermen started to claim up to 16’ surges, I was concerned. I expected the house would flood with 4 feet of water or more and I didn’t want to also lose the car to flooding. So Matey and I packed up the car with supplies and evacuated to higher ground. Follow along as we return to our home and see the damage and destruction as we witnessed it.
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The power of water is so amazing, I have a friend whose boat was found 5 blocks away on a street, not even near the water. Just crazy to think of the ride it went on.
Thank God you’re all safe. 🙏 I pray you can restore your home quickly. ❤️
Thank God you and your dog are safe. Your dog’s eyes looked like he was kind of freaked out by the storm but he wasn’t going to leave you. Animals’ instincts are to flee from storms, and he looked like he wanted to be anywhere but right there. Glad you took good care of him and you both are OK after the hurricane. So sorry about your boat, mate. ❤️🩹
Thanks for sharing, glad you and your dog is safe. I like your dog, very loyal companion.
Praise God that you and your dog are safe.
You’re brave hunkering down in a car wash! Glad you and your pup are okay and I’m so sorry for the water damage and boat headache. This too shall pass.
Prayers for you and all who are dealing with the aftermath of Ian. Its going to be a long recovery.
I live in Houston and feel your pain. Thankfully you’re okay and damage is minimal. Massive cleanup and your waterline in the house. Take care!
As sweet dog
Heartbreaking. Glad you're safe. Thoughts and prayers to you and your family for a smooth rebuilding process.
I’m Canadian and couldn’t stomach hurricanes firing up every year.
We felt bad enough seeing your previous video but this one, my heart sank [no pun intended] as your walked thru your yard to discover Happy Ours 😟
As did mine. I had to do some selective editing and cut out some emotional outbursts. Lol. Thanks for following along Ron.
This was a hard video to watch. I can’t imagine how you felt but you kept your cool. Take it one day at a time. Looking forward to seeing Happy Ours on the water again 👍
THIS^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I love your dog. I am glad you are safe
We are so sorry that you're having to go through all this 💔 all the best to you and your family 🙏 we hope everything works out nicely with the extraction of the Happy Ours
Thank you! We hope you guys made out ok. Several fellow youtube boating channels I know had lost their boats and/or homes. If your still making your way down SW Florida. We have a dock available for you in Cape Coral if you need.
@@AdventuresofHappyOurs so very much appreciated 🙏 we will definitely see you at some point 😉 after all my parents live there in South Cape on a canal. Not far from you. They got lucky. Water came up to their door step. We left town to central Florida with the boat in tow...
That’s great news. Your travels south at this point should be very interesting! Looking forward to running into you guys at some point.
I am so glad your safe, my daughter and son n law live in the Cape, off Eldorado Pkwy on SW 54th. They lost some shingles, pool cage got hammered and water in the garage.
The palm trees took a beating as well as the landscaping but they were safe. I followed your journey all the way down knowing you were going to love Cape Coral only to have to go through this your first few months you were there. You are safe, that's what matters the most. My blessings to you from Austin, TX
gotta admit.. plenty of scenes on tv, but seeing a person go home after made it hit home... all the best to you and you repair up..home, heart , and Boat
Be thankful you are all safe and sound. Happy ours can be fixed.
Fascinating and well-made video. So glad you are safe, and that so is that handsome dog!
I just found your channel, and I felt your pain. I live on a canal just east of Santa Barbara, and south of Cape Coral Pkwy, and had all of the same issues, but my boat didn't break away and suffered only minor damage from bouncing off the dock and pilings. Most of the house had to be rebuilt, but it's all back together and better than before. I see you stayed in the Cape since the storm, as I did. Even with the storms, I don't think I'll ever leave. I look forward to getting a little deeper into your channel, keep up the good work.
Thank you and same here- we are better than before and have no plans on leaving. I learned I’ll never leave the house again. Just be better prepared for it next time.
Great video. We live not far from you but not on a canal. At least you knew where your boat ended up. Thanks for allowing us to see what was going on outside. We didn’t come out of the house until the next morning.
Very smart move to pull into the car wash
Very sorry that you went through this experience especially only after a few months of moving to Florida. I live south of you in Marco and but for the grace of God suffered little damage. Happy to see you are enjoying your new Regal and living Florida boating life to its fullest.
Thank you! I am a big fan of Marco. We hope to head down that way with the Regal soon and bar hop Goodland on Sunday Funday!
@@AdventuresofHappyOurs Stans is a little hard to get dock space especially on Sunday Funday but two restaurants south of Stans is Paradise Found with ample dock space. Watch the shallow waters in the channel approaching Goodland. Enjoy!
I have a real good hook at Crabby Lady. I’ve been a guest Dockmaster there on several occasions.
Just discovered your channel a few days ago and I'm really enjoying your videos. We also had just relocated to Cape Coral before Ian (about two weeks before to be exact) but we were able to ride it out. I estimate we had about 7' of storm surge at our house in southwest Cape; thankfully no flooding, but I think another foot would have gotten us. Pure dumb luck, I had our boat tied off well enough to the lift pilings that it was able to float up and back down and remain on the lift. At any rate, you've given me a lot of good ideas about places to visit. Glad you were able to recover and hopefully none of us have to go through a storm that bad again!
Thanks for following along and welcome to Cape Coral!
I love your 🐶
You're alive brother. Stuff can get fixed. Hoping for easy fixes moving forward.
thank goodness you and your fur baby was okay.
Wishing you well, and a quick recovery.
Thank you for sharing.
I'm surprised the tender didn't get ripped off! Great tie down job!
Yes I agree. No damage at all. Luck. I should have removed it.
God bless you folks. Devastating. I’m so glad you’re OK though
Great narration. thanks for sharing this.
I'm so glad you both are safe!!!!! God is good 🙏
Wow, sorry you had to go through this, not the best way to be welcomed to Florida. Thanks for sharing.
Look at the bright side you all alive you can replace everything else….be strong…
Holy shit, thank God you guys are ok. I saw this photo of your boat in the nieghbors yard months ago but had no idea this was your boat, I just recently started following you. Best of luck, I will probably pause the videos of the ICW and see how what the outcome of this is, looks like you may have gotten a new boat already.
So sorry for your damages. Hopefully you can recover soon👍
Thanks for sharing your experience. God speed with the boat recovery!
I was there in Cape Coral with you !!! Sad about Ft Myers Beach and Pine Island!!
So sorry for ur losses but u n ur pooch are safe, not everyone was!!
Glad your ok. Everything else can be fixed or replaced. Thanks for the video.
LOVE YOUR DOGGIE❤️❤️❤️
He really helped me get through this. Dogs truly are man’s best friend. 🐶
Hey that's my neighborhood there off Skyline! Can't believe you were even driving around in that stuff!
Your dog seems very aware of weird stuff going on, what a shweeeet face.
Sweetest ever!
Thanks for sharing this, sorry you had to go through this crap. Hope things get back to normal soon. Bless you!
Your a trooper for sticking it, Tom. Stay safe and we might be doing this together someday as neighbors.
INCREDIBLE !
I live in port Charlotte. 2yrs now. My daughter helped me through the storm. God was in charge…I don’t remember Anything after two trees lifted up from the ground..and flew away.
Went through this in Naples! Been here 35 years and never saw flooding any where close to this! Made me sad ti see your boat after watching your ICW videos which I enjoyed! Glad your safe!!
Thanks for watching! The ICW vids are still coming and so will the recovery and repair vids! She’s far from dead.
The show must go on...thanks for the update. Glad you are safe and I appreciate some tips you gave me on my 341. Wish you the best of luck. I am thinking of moving to the "tampa" area from NJ. Now I don't know. one very small victory... you don't have a snowblower to worry about.
that was a Monster of a storm. It Felt evil somehow. I cant imagine riding it out at the car wash. I wouldve lost ot at several points. Glad the doggy & you was ok. That storm was an absolute worst case scenario.
Wow! Heart breaking! Wishing you guys well. We were very lucky here in the Titusville area. Some flooding and minor damage. Nothing compared to SW Florida.
God bless you and your family
The dogs eyes and expression looks worried 😯, He knows what he is seeing isn't right.
He certainly did. What a great companion to have during that time. Thanks for watching!
I wouldn't have thought that hurricane would do that much damage!
Sorry for your loss. I am in Port Charlotte...And I feel you, even tho I escaped with no damage at 32 ft ABSL.
My boat was on a lift and ended up in the back yard. There was no stopping this storm. Just incredible the destruction. Crane picked mine up this past Thursday.
We heard from towboat US. Couple days!
I'm sorry you had to deal with this. I'm glad you and your adorable puppy are safe. Hopefully your boat is okay. Mine is going on a crane next week for a new trailer. This makes me less nervous as my boat is tiny in comparison.
Wow cap. That was a terrible hurricane 🌀 hope you get your house and boat in order soon cap.
I do t think it will be soon. No cranes in the area that can handle it. Hoping they ship the big dogs down to help.
@@AdventuresofHappyOurs definitely since you need it to have a place to live during your home remodel cap.👍🛥
Hope for the best!❤️
Hi I'm bayleigh and I'm almost 10 and another hurricane already hurricane ian hit just a month before i ternd 9 i pray for u my cousin lives in cape coral i pray for you and her
I feel your pain. 3 1/2 ft of water in my house in St. James city. Back Lanai is gone and pool cage damaged and pool was filled with stuff I don't want to talk about. My boat was on the trailer although only a 21 ft Bay boat but received damage from the car port collapsing on it. We still have four walls and a roof so now in the rebuilding process.
Horrible. I didn’t realize st James city took so much water. We rode up the canal by Phuzzies for lunch and saw all the destruction. So sorry.
I'm about 1/2 mile south of phuzzies on Henley canal. Making progress though.
I’m sure we’ll be passing your house often. Good luck.
Glad you saved your car you have to have wheels to get around my grandson lives right there where you're at too his house got tore up a little bit he said but it is livable
Sir, love your sweet doggie too. So sorry about your boat but you seem to know what you are doing, self sufficient and know how to take care of your stuff. I bought my first little Sea Ray as my divorce present back in 2010, then a Moomba, hated that boat and wish I’d kept my Sea Ray. Anyways, hello from Alabama, wishing you and yours the best.
Thanks! It’s not easy work but it’s rewarding! Now I have to google what a Moomba is! Lol
I appreciate these videos. Try to do another video 6 months from now.
Hope all goes well for you! We are in process of purchasing a 341 and love your content. Stay tuff and safe!
If you want to save your boat from a hurricane, you either need to drive it way inland and tie off the the mangroves, or take it out to deep water, trail about a 300' warp of line off the stern and ride it out.
Hook several big container's of oil (e.g. 5 gallon vegetable oil ones like the restaurants get) with their handles thru the warp tied off to the transom. One at a time once the wind comes up and the seas start breaking, take one of the outermost ones, poke about a 1/8" hole in the bottom, disconnect it from the lashings to the transom, and send it down the warp where it will stay at the end of the loop slowly leaking oil. The oil sheen on the top of the water will greatly reduce the breaking of the waves over your stern. Half a dozen or so of those 5 gallon containers should last long enough for you to get thru the worst of the average hurricane.
There's an old sailor's adage for when the weather's bad that goes:
Tain't a safe night to be ashore.
They weren't kidding.
Best wishes 🙏
Same here brother same here.
25 years in my home never did I get water 💦 it stinks! I don’t even live by the water.
Jeez. Wow. Glad u r well
Sorry Bro. Feel your pain.
I am sorry! but glad you are safe…
I just couldn’t deal with sitting at car wash for 8 hrs then coming home to a flooded house , my boat in my yard and mos or yrs until everything was fixed only to face the possibility that it could all happen again in a couple of weeks.
It was said to be a 500 year storm that never happened to Cape Coral before. All I need is about 60 years. Lol
@@AdventuresofHappyOurs Boating fun will make you forget all about it!😊
All I can think to say is “ I’m sorry “
Good luck getting out of this without bent propeller shafts or broken seals.
I'm in Venice. It destroyed my shed and privacy fence.
That sucks.... hope everything will work out for you n your wife....Be down starting Dec. but nothing left in Matlacha n Pine Island :( be well.
SO SORRY YOU HAD TO ENDURE SUCH A STRONG STORM!!! THANK GOD YOUR LIVES WERE SPARED. I PRAY YOU'LL FIND PEACE AND HOPE IN THE MIDST OF THE RECOVERY, IN THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. AND GOD BLESS YOUR BEAUTIFUL PRECIOUS DOG!!!
Wow glad you guys are okay! I left my home in Matlacha that morning and rode it out with my dogs across the street from that car wash in the kohls parking lot. Its nice to know other people did the same thing were okay!
My original plan was to do the kohls thing then saw the old concrete car wash and thought that would be better. Other cars were in the bays too. Lol
Lucky your boat didn't crash through the neighbors house.
If you stay and do this again next time tie the boat off to both sides of the canal leaving the boat tied in the middle of the canal with slack so it can go almost to each side without hitting this will give you room to go up and down with the storm
Next thing you know the neighbors boat breaks loose and sinks yours.
Sorry you had water in your house
I have lived through several hurricanes and it’s not for me anymore.
Wow... I feel really bad for you.
This was down Skyline I recognize the neighborhood my daughter lives over there
Nice guy, he took his pet with him, that is a man.
Just started following your channel a few weeks ago. I’m boating out of Brooklyn NY, Jamaica bay. Sorry to hear about your boat, but make lemonade with lemons and make some informative youtube videos for others to learn! Cheers
I know Jamaica bay well. Not only worked in Brooklyn for 15 years or so but had a boat at a marina on Flatbush ave. Call us crazy but we waterski’d back by JFK. Lol
@@AdventuresofHappyOurs I'm sure the marina is still there. A lot has changed. JFK is great fun - can watch a few jets takeoff and catch a few fish at the same time - blackfish - mm! Well, you'll have to pull up to my club dock when your boat is not on your neighbor's yard, and have a drink on us. I am considering making a TH-cam series about boat life in Brooklyn. Made one video. Will see what happens. Maybe I should strap a GoPro to my head and water ski.
@@injectortrouble checking out your channel now..go for it!
It's very difficult to figure out where you will be safe during a hurricane. First impressions you would think you don't want to be in your car but then again if your house floods and I mean floods to the point where you would have to crawl on the roof of your home that's certainly not a place to be either. It was frightening this is my fifth hurricane I never want to go through another one this was 8 hours long brutal, brutal
I saw very few damaged cars other than those lost to flooding. I drove out of flood zone and put a large concrete structure between me and the wind.
Been through a few hurricanes myself. Feel your pain. Could you not get the the boat out of the path?
No one knew the path for sure and the surge was unprecedented.
Could you have taken the boat up north before the hurricane hit? Thanks for the footage glad you are safe.
Could’ve done a number of things differently. But we did what we thought was prudent at the time. Extra lines, fenders, bow and stern anchors out. No one expected what we got. It’s unprecedented for the area.
@@AdventuresofHappyOurs Gotcha👍 I have never lived in a place with hurricanes, so was just curious.
Love your profile name! Lol
@@Vikingsmoke I'm sure he had his hands full dealing with securing his home boat etc not much time to move it. Plus you move it and the storm changes track and hits it anyway.
I've never had the experience you had I hope all is well for you and your family.
A question that I have only because o neven been in such a storm like that.
If I were there and had a boat like yours, would it have benefited me to try to make a run with the boat across the gulf coast to avoid the possibility of damaging my boat?
Again, I ask out of curiosity.
I can think of a number of things I could have done differently. I considered heading up the Caloosahatchie river to get out of its path but no one knew for certain where it would go until the last 12 hours.
Why not build numerous concrete parking structures inland. At least You can save lives and your car with some valuables. Thank God You and your dog rode it out.
Oh God...how horrible !!! 'Kinda makes you want to move back to the North...NAAH !!! (Just kidding). Keep the faith Brother!
curious to see how they move the boat
That will be a full video.
I’m sorry this happened to you. Have you ever seen sharks or alligators at your home?
No sharks or alligators so far. I have seen some pretty good size catfish though.
Is Cape Coral on the mainland?
Yes it part was f the mainland. But it has over 400 miles of man made canals within it.
I feel sorry for the dog, I’m sure he didn’t ask to drive around in a hurricane. Poor baby.😢
He loves to be in the car and with his daddy.
I had a similar thought. Why the urgency to drive while the storm was still raging and storm surge still an issue?
I wanted out before the storm surge hit and I lost the car too.
Hurricanes are pretty unnecessary.
I would consider moving to FL if it had not been for those monsters.
You can’t park your Boat there Mate…….
NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER DRIVE OVER DOWNED POWER LINES !! You don't know the potential that's still there. Do NOT assume that a downed power line is dead, and don't assume your tires are going to shield you, or your car, from electrocution.
That was a very foolish thing to do. I'm relieved you didn't get hurt, but please don't do that again.
Why would you want to stay and rebuild? Hurricane's are just getting worse with global warming. I am on the East Coast OBX NC. And I would go and not look back
That’s actually not true. Do your research and look at the hard data.
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No wife, no kids and no girlfriend? Someone’s a narcissist.
You must not be a regular follower of the channel. Wife was safely in NY. Kids in college.
@@AdventuresofHappyOurs oh ok my bad!