The video begins just before 10am and ends at 7:40pm on September 28, 2022. The camera probe is placed 15 feet up on a concrete pole at Estero Blvd and Ave C, facing northwest. I truly have not watched every second of the footage, so viewers be cautioned, there could be unknown disturbing footage. Here are a few key moments to point out… 27:30 - First sign of storm surge 29:33 - Resident of pink house moves car, goes back inside 1:04:20 - Gust blows door open on pink house 2:26:00 - Surge reaches top of fence 4:18:38 - Pink house collapse into water with residents inside (they all survived) 8:40:00 - Surge fully recedes 9:28:00 - Eerie red sunset
I remember watching y'all put out at least 1 other probe. How many in all? Hopefully the weather Gods will spare us in Morehead City,NC this year. Stay safe
This might be the best storm surge footage of all time. I cannot recall another video that captures the absolute scale of what happened in the way this video does. Incredible.
Not saying there better but go ck out hurricane track. Mark suddthe probably miss spelled last name. He was first to put camera in path of storm unmanned they had it in a Isuzu rodeo and strapped it in the sand threw hurricane Katrina that is the easiest I believe anyone ever done this and he’s done it on many more. With better and better unmanned cameras
Yup. Not to mention that the video has chapters for time of day. Perfect video IMO. Horrible destruction - but great footage of just how catastrophic storm surge can be.
Unfortunately almost all trees and bushes die from the salt water. Fort Myers resident here, plus I work on Sanibel Island, and everything green was dead and brown right after.
I’ve lived in the coast all my life (I’m in Charleston, SC), and when Hugo happened I was only 6. I know about the surge, how it happens, etc. but never have I witnessed such a video that captures just how fast and dangerous it is! This is incredible and news sources should have this at the ready to get residents in surge/flood proned areas. There are even maps available in regards to which zone you’re in (like 2, being very likely). My home is very safe from surge and flooding, however I’d essentially be on an island. Hugo was terrifying. If there’s anything above a 2 headed my way I’m gone ✌🏼 I’ll never put my kids through any experience like that. Ever.
Well, that's Republicans they don't believe in anything , so they will experience the strongest hurricane since they won't listen to the news. Just to give them warnings cause once the storm hits, no emergency vehicles won't save no one. Once the Strom has passed first,people should know how bad hurricanes are in Florida, but they always think it won't be bad or think they can go through the storm and let it pass which I'd very risky to do.
I remember seeing the pictures of boats and yachts thousands of them about 100 foot high pile caused by the storm surge of Hugo, if you didn’t see the pictures you wouldn’t believe it
@@danielwymer1580 I was 7 when Hugo happened and we were actually in Disneyworld at the time and were going home to east TN a few days after it happened and my dad wanted to drive through Charleston to see the damage and I remember thinking how crazy it was with all the stuff destroyed there. It tore up jack for sure. Oddly enough I'm gonna be back in Disneyworld this Friday and I was curious as to how Idalia might impact that trip but I think Orlando might just be going to get some rain. This video right here is absolutely horrifying. I've always wondered what the ocean might look like during a hurricane and it's definitely not something I'd want to experience first hand!
@@SimpleManGuitars1973 With hurricane Ian, the death toll on Fort Myers Beach was over 1000, The illegals are not counted , official death toll about 20 people. Huge numbers of illegals working in South Florida and they won’t go to the Hurricane shelters for fear of being sent back to Mexico or wherever
I think this is the best hurricane footage ever taken. I grew up in Florida and have seen a bunch of hurricanes, but never any footage like this. This should be used to educate people about the danger of storm surge, and why they need to evacuate when they are warned too.
@nathanbrownmolotov8697 - I happened to stumble across this footage of Hurricane Ian on Ft. Myers Beach, but I don't understand where the camera was positioned (almost 10 hours): th-cam.com/video/igsz7cqg-Zk/w-d-xo.html
@@CalebAchsah I found the location using google maps. The camera was located on the concrete power pole at the entrance to the beach parking at 26.45135, -81.95066 The person said the camera started getting splashed when the storm surge got up to 15 Feet. So that Camera was mounted just about that. Once the camera got splashed they lost the video about 30 seconds later.
Hearing about Milton becoming a category 5 again made me come back to this footage. I did not comment before, nor had I ever seen your channel prior to stumbling upon this video but as others have stated this has got to be some of the best hurricane footage ever taken. I do not live in a hurricane prone area (Oklahoma) so for a long time hurricanes for me were just wind and a little water, but this raw video completely changed my perspective! Watching this up to the halfway point made me realize they are more like a slow burn tsunami WITH the crazy winds. So, now, thanks to this footage I am beginning to try and learn how hurricanes actually work, so thank you for completely correcting my perspective on hurricanes and giving them the proper place on my "Mother Nature scary" list that they deserve. Also, for those of y'all still trying to recover from Helene and those that are in Milton's path, you are in my heart and on my mind. I hope you all stay safe and have a quiet hurricane season from here on out!
But for real, I have so many questions about hurricanes now. Like, why do they have an eye? Why does there need to be a core of serenity in the middle of it? My closest point of reference is a supercell and the closest they ever come to having an eye is when a tornado comes out, so it's genuinely been on my mind as to why. I would ask when watching Milton coverage, but feel it's a bit insensitive lol
@@RandomPerson-vq9kw Anything in weather is about a balance, and so as the cyclone produces violent upward motion in the form of thunderstorms, sinking motion has to happen somewhere else. Some air is dissipated outwardly at the highest altitudes but some of this sinking air approaches the center of the storm and through compression warms which usually means drying; this produces the clear and usually calm conditions it's so well known for.
My wife and I waded chest deep in this, with my 3 year old son in my arms. We all wore life jackets. We made it to a multi-story building and a nice spanish family let us inside. I went back for our little dog and my sons hamster. I almost didn't make it back, but we saved all living things with no injuries. I am glad I chose to wear boots, jeans, nylon jacket, and a lifejacket. This is exactly what happens during surge, I tried to learn from watching Katrina. The only thing this video does not translate is the force of the wind on top of the water pushing you off balance and pushing you under. It was a terrifying experience. I've lived here all my life. I underestimated the strength of mother nature.
My sister lives about 10 minutes away (like 2 miles inland), and they got 4 feet of surge. A neighbor of theirs drowned in his car a block away when a wall of water hit him. Violent 4' wave can easily flip a car.
@@QuattroZack1 *not getting any flooding. You know what I meant. I'd like to give my most sincere apologies to the youtube English teachers who have no life 🫡🤦♂️😘
@DianaDeLuna Sorry to hear that. There was areas that were inland but close to the rivers and got flooded out. It was a sad sight to drive down some streets and see people's whole life's sitting in piles of trash on the side of the road.
No edits, no talking… the eeriest part to me was from sunset to the end. Just the sound of the wind, and seeing the flashlight flickers within and around the Lani Kai… with the one light on the top of the tower fading into black. A masterpiece only mother nature could write. Thank you for sharing this video.
I live just 2 streets behind this camera. Thank you for releasing the footage with no “fluff”. PS that pink house HAD 2 people in it at the start of the video I was lucky enough to trust my gut and leave. I lost everything but my life
I can't believe they stayed in that fragile wood house right by the beach knowing a hurricane is coming. People have no common sense, no wonder so many die.
RIP to the “Avenue C “street sign. You held on like a hero- went down fiercely fighting and doing your duty to let all know what street you represent. 🙏🏼 🌧️ 🚏
I messed up- I should have reminded everybody Avenue C really lit up a room with its presence and was loved by all who came across it. A good one lost too soon.
I'm 54 and born in raised in SE FL. Been through a lot of storms/hurricanes. This is by far the best footage I've ever seen. From the surge, to wind directions change to wind speed and more, just......wow.
I grew up in pre-Katrina New Orleans and watched many hurricanes from my dad's office on the 51st floor of the Shell building. The inch thick glass in the floor to ceiling windows protected my bird's eye view of the entire city while I watched for hours as high winds and flood waters attempted to destroy it. I thought I'd never see anything that gave me a better view of the destructive power of a hurricane but I am still picking my jaw off the floor as I write this. The perspective of the camera and the length of time that was documented (before, during and after) makes this extremely powerful footage. The fact that the recording equipment was not lost is itself remarkable. Thank you for sharing this. Hopefully it can help save lives in the future. Thank you!
@@MaxOlsonChasing we can only hope they can understand. I’m not near a beach but I can understand the power of Mother Nature. It’s out of our control. I hope people can be smart and get out in time. Homes can be replaced, people cannot.
Red sky at night sailor's delight. I am a lineman and worked storm restoration here last year and it didn't rain for the 2 weeks we were there. One of the worst storms we were on for sure.
@MaxOlsonChasing I would definitely send this to the Weather Channel. If they time lapsed it and did some slower footage in-between, it demonstrates not only the surge, but the hazards of debris, collapse, and the changing wind direction throughout the duration. It would be so much better than their computer generated graphics of surge and make it so much more urgent
The only thing left from the house was the stair case leading to nowhere bloody unreal and the red building on the far right completely gone it was big omg this is hard core footage!!!
This video is by far the best in storm surge of a powerful hurricane. I'm 61 years old and have never ever seen that kind of water damage. It's like the entire ocean came into a regular everyday city street. Thank you so much for a very educational experience in what a powerful storm surge can do.
@@bonnie_gail It was underwater before, it will be underwater again. Find a Fall line map of the Eastern US, it runs through the southeastern states from Alabama, up through Middle Georgia, then through the Carolinas and up the eastern states. Everything below that line was under water not that long ago in geological time.
Watching the guy park his car, go inside the house, and then the house eventually having the windows and door forced open by the winds and being washed away is way wild.
Nine hours of a non-stop rushing river of ocean water wiping out almost everything in its path. It’s incomprehensible. You wouldn’t believe it if this footage was not recorded. The immense and destructive power of nature is breathtaking. Living in Alabama with our sliver of the Gulf Coast, I’ve seen the aftermath of major hurricanes. But I will never look at hurricanes the same way again after seeing this. My takeaway: Always evacuate. Always.
Yep, and that’s just the beginning. In Fredrick, 1979, west Mobile (car was drown in Bayou La Batre where it was being repaired). 24 hours of the Jolly Green Giant beating on the metal door with the train of wind and whistle in the tiny crack around the door. (And the door was second floor recessed and completely covered. The next 2 weeks without water and 3 weeks without electricity. Every power pole was down in the streets. We were lucky being close to Airport Road, the first hooked back up. Never want to be near a Cat 4-5 ever again. Did go through two Cat 3 in South Florida 2004. Yeh, that was it for me! I’m up on a ridge in the middle of the nation now. I’ll stay home in the snow & ice!
wow iam breathless i stayed in the Outtrigger 2005 and 2006 not far away from the camera i've never ever could imagine those situation ... this is absolute incredible footage greetings from Germany
This is incredible footage...never seen anything like it before. I don't know how you did this or how the camera just kept on recording, but well done. Extremely powerful and educational for anyone who may question evacuating during a storm this intense.
Its like starting this at the perfect time so every bit of it is in full daylight so you can see exactly what happened from start to finish. Incredible footage.
29:34 - The man who lived in the second floor apartment of the red house drives his car to park it in the lot across the street, while his wife / girlfriend waves to him from their porch. This attempt to save the car from the arriving storm surge was sadly inadequate, to say the least. This couple astonishingly managed to survive this disaster, as their home was completely destroyed, which of course is shown in this video at 4:18:36. The windows and door have long since been blown in by the wind at this point, and after repeated hits by waves, the front wall of the house finally gives way and the entire second story detaches and is pushed away to the right.
Oh my god. Thank you! I saw the guy walk into the house, but never leave and just felt my heart sink when the surge was above the house and it was gone at the end. The idea of witnessing someone in their final moments…
I do have one question concerning the car. Did they find it? If so, where? I hope they had good insurance on it. I am glad to hear that both them and their pets made it out
@@looselipssinkships6543I'm so happy that the dogs survived! If those idiots wanted to commit suicide, there are easier ways! They should've never placed those poor animals in such a dangerous situation!
I noticed at the start that there was double garage doors open in that house...then later they were closed..and i thought oh No , there are people in there...How DID they Live Thru That !!!
Best Storm surge video that I've ever seen. And the ability to skip back and forth from the very beginning to the very end makes for a shocking contrast!
Thanks Max, this is an important teaching tool and even a historical artifact. Up there with the videos from 2004 showing everyone for the first time what a tsunami looks like. Amazing that at this level of surge, it doesn’t even look like a flood any more - it just looks like the ocean.
Sorry- But that is not what a tsunami looks like. There is no wind generally with a tsnami and no gusts driving the surface waters. There may in many cases be no rain or wind either. A Tsnami is generally a sudden wave up wave arriving with out the days and days of warning when a hurricane hits. A major disturbance in the earth's crust undersea water jolts the sudden rise in sea level resulting in wave after wave rolling in. It's appearance is vastly different. I recommend seeing some videos of a tsnami before trying to inform all that the above looks like a tsnami. A Tsnami looks some what closer to a tidal wave. But it is not a tidal wave as it is not tidal. LOL-Had I not seen the Japanese Tsnami -I may have believed you as I would not have known the difference. But once you know the difference then the difference is easy to spot.
@@MikeGreenwood51 I never said this video showed a tsunami or looked like a tsunami. I said the significance of the video was comparable to that of the tsunami videos of 2004.
@@MikeGreenwood51 he didn't say this is what a tsunami looks like; he was comparing it to the importance of the videos from 2004 when people saw footage of a tsunami for the first time. Not to an actual tsunami.
I was on holiday in Miami from Scotland whilst this was going on, it's difficult to comprehend the devastation and destruction mother nature is capable of without videos like this.
Around the 5 mimute mark a black car (mazda 3?) Made a left turn & parked. Seeing that car driven for the last time got me.🥹. And just like that, that persons vehicle is written off if they survived to care about it!
Spring is a better time. Forget August and September. October never seems to have many storms anymore. For quite a while storms predominately hit the east coast, now it hits the gulf side more.
I sped up the video bc it's seemingly 9 hours, and it was almost unbelievable to watch. This video will be a part of the history of hurricane Ian and will live on TH-cam for generations. Great video.
Wow....just impressive. All of it. Am I the only one impressed at this camera? Nearly 10 hours straight, no telling how many Gigabytes of data, excellent battery life (or supplemental power), and lastly - the structure it was mounted to (utility pole)? Very impressive!
1080P video averaging between 2~4 Gigabytes an hour, So a 9 hour video Would be around the 30 GB range, so not too bad. And although this video here is 1080P, 4K is a different matter, That is around 45 GB an hour So a 9 hour video would be over 400 GB.
@@ddellano7273 From what I've seen of some of the behind the scenes of that video, The camera was in was a big metal box that was Stainless steel strapped to one of those big square concrete telephone Poles.
I feel sorry for the lost lives Is it true that the people having no idea about this through news or people are not ready for such destruction. I live in Pakistan and whenever the flood comes the government announced to evacuate and most of the people use to leave but still there are some who always wait till the end or never leave and die. We use to call them uneducated and we always look at European and American countries that people are sensible and listen to their governments . But after looking at this horrified disaster I'm surprised y the people decided to be at their homes. If government not announced to leave area or government has no idea about this . Whose fault is this. Continuously I'm. Watching and praying for all of you to be save and accept my condolences for the lost lives . Love and prayers From Pakistan
Watching how it intensifies then slight calming before the wind surge reverses is incredible. Those 3 palm trees stayed rooted. The sign slowly going past the screen did make me giggle ( I’m sorry ) Amazing yet scary footage.
the best storm surge footage of all time. what an incredible force of nature. I was on the edge of my seat. There are no words for this. How quickly that water came up, and how bravely that red house in the foreground tried to hold on. But in the end it lost that battle. All the best to those people there, especially because on August 16 of this year 2023, they again received so much water. I pray for them.
29:50 The person who drives up, parks their car, goes into their home…but the car never left. Did…did we just see someone in their final moments? The house is completely washed away at the end of the video…it is so sad and heartbreaking to see. Did they leave? Did someone pick them up before the storm surges? EDIT: someone posted a similar comment and found out they survived - details are in that thread.
That is what killed Ft Myers Beach for sure was the surge and the fact the storm just SAT on us lord knows i'll never forget it and how beyond grateful I was it died down early enough for us to get to a safer place since the roof of our house had fully caved in on me and my brother and father yeah we definitely learned our lesson that day NEVER AGAIN
@sarahbrown7725 I am from Port Charlotte and same. Fire Fighters came the morning after and made us all evacuate, because the water kept rising(Peace River).
Barrier islands are formed by storm events. Anyone wishing to buy or build real estate on a barrier island should first watch this incredible video! This footage should also be used in meteorology classes. A very valuable teaching tool! Thank you for filming and posting this video, it's a wonderful contribution to weather science.
This video is actually a stark reminder for us people who live on the barrier islands. Im just glad I live on the East side of FL we never seem to get much here in the way of storm surge. We are just in the peak time of the hurricane season so my neighbors keep safe and as we say...Hunker down heh
Far too many barrier islands along the Gulf Coast and Atlantic Coast of the USA have been heavily developed. With hindsight, this should never have happened - they could have been used for recreation, with minimal structures that could be destroyed by storms without much financial loss, and without any homes or substantial businesses allowed. But it's several hundred years too late to change what's there now.
This was amazing and should be watched by everyone in storm surge areas, then they just might evacuate and take greater care of their lives! Thanks so much for sharing!
Only liking this to have it saved as a reminder what everyone there went threw and still are to this day almost 2 years later, this place was a second home to me, I’m happy it’s coming back strong 💪❤️
This is probably the most exact recollection of what I saw when Hurricane Katrina hit my town that sat on the MS/LA state line in the southernmost point of Hancock county. This was chilling to sit through.
Wow, you must have been very close to where the eye of Katrina made landfall! Everybody remembers the flooding in New Orleans, but the hell and destruction that the Biloxi/Bay St. Louis area of Mississippi should not be forgotten either. As a Hurricane Andrew survivor, I can certainly empathize with you.
The term "a picture is worth 1000 words" rings even more true when it comes to video. If anyone on Earth ever wondered what the full ferocity of hurricane/typhoon storm surge is like, let them watch this video for a taste. Easily the best example of storm surge ever recorded on video, this terrifying footage should be nominated for one of the documentary-category Academy Awards. Many compliments and thanks to the people who placed this camera and produced this awesome video. My dog and I survived category 5 Hurricane Andrew in the bathtub of my first story apartment in 1992. As the building came apart around me, I was blissfully unaware of storm surge. Thankfully the surge never came in Andrew, or I certainly would not be writing this today. God bless the people of Fort Myers Beach.
No talking,all Hurricane! Spectacularly riveting. I can't believe that anyone would even want to build a simple wooden house in a area known for hurricanes. I'd build a house on stilts made of steel and concrete and hurricane proof glass. Build it 5 feet higher than the highest recorded storm surge and sit back in safety as everything around you gets washed away. People would pay to Hurricane party at your place! Why deal with insurance and rebuilding, build it indestructible to begin with!
Shout out to the 3 palm trees to the left... True representation of Florida,you can knock a few leaves off our surface but in the end of every storm we will always be left standing...
@@bluepilltaker you must be from up north... You represent the ones who's always trying to still Florida's joy, you represent the water that tried to knock those 3 trees down,who eventually had to go away after we were left "standing"... #Florida strong
All 9 hours of this truly harrowing footage should be required viewing for all those who plan to move to Florida. NO WONDER MOST OF THE DEATHS WERE DUE TO DROWNING. That the 2 people and 2 dogs in the pink house somehow survived is nothing short of a miracle.
Absolutely incredible video, seen a few storm surge vids but nothing like this, how it goes from a trickle on a road to full blown middle of the sea is incredible, mesmerising, incomprehensible and nightmarish! Top, top video. Kudos to the 3 tree survivors and a shout out to the upside down open sign which gave it.its best 😄
The fact that someone parked that black car got out and ran to that house for it to not even 3 almost 4 hours later get just sweeped up shows u hurricane are no joke the coastaline mainly but it still can get so bad other places and so many lives are taken bc people dont listen! Thank you for sharing this and showing pwople how dangerous these actually can be!
I lived 5 miles off from here and when Ian hit. Our town is still trying to rebuild and it’ll never be the same. So many lives lost as they could not give out an accurate estimate due to failure of evacuation notices. All of our barrier island such as fort myers beach, sanible, captiva, and st James city are completely gone. In land we have minimal signage and basic street lights now most roofs have never been repaired and many are still blue trapped. Thank you for sharing this video of my beautiful town as we still pick up the pieces a year later ❤️
Just drove down this street last week and if you didn't know the building was there before, you wouldn't know it even existed. For example, Hooters was just a few yards behind this camera and there is absolutely nothing there now except sand and some hardly visible foundation. Almost every wooden structure on FMB has been completely wiped out. The majority of Highrise condos down Estero Blvd (this street) are still surrounded by chain-link fencing. Not a tasteless plug, but my channel has several videos if you want to see more.
@@pangalactictuber it hasn't yet. That's the Lina Kia Resort. Ground floor wiped out and second floor has huge damage. They are working on the resort, but I can only guess if the property will be condemned or not.
So sad watching the man park his car across the street and go into his home and watch it literally be ripped away and shattered. RIP. 149 deaths in Florida from Ian. I live close to the beach and have been for 41 years NEVER stay on the beach during a Hurricane, always leave even if it's just inland a bit more.
4:36:00-6:36:00 people who stayed endured 2 hours of hell on Earth; a teaching moment for anyone who considers staying ahead of a major storm. Also a good teaching moment for developers looking to build in hurricane prone landscapes.
And pretty much universally the people who stay and undergo these incredibly scary and stressful experiences say they would NEVER do it again, and they advise others to never make the mistake that they did.
They're lucky they survived. It's INCREDIBLY DUMB to stay when a huge hurricane is coming and you live next to the ocean. They should have evacuated like any sane person.
@@GeorgeFitness-yo8blI’ve got family in the outer banks of NC. They practically live right on top of the water, there’s a dock right at the end of my grandpa’s street. Almost all of the houses directly on the coast or out on Cedar Island or Harkers Island are built a good story off the ground, because they also get some major hurricanes, and the risk of storm surge and flash floods in bad weather is very real there. Everyone living in places like that in the banks evacuates inland regardless because all it takes is some good surge and those barrier islands are gone. If you’re going to live on the coast, and from someone in Florida who’s lived a half hour from the beach my whole life with family in one of the most idyllic coastal towns in the country, at the very least be smart about it. Make sure you go into it knowing that living on the water means getting the worst of storms like this and get the hell out when they come. I was in the OBX a week ago and a tiny squall came through, and that tiny squall wasn’t so tiny standing on the beach in 50mph wind gusts.
27:00 is when the waves first start 1:28:40 the door to the red house closes meaning someone was watching the water rise for a while. They should have evacuated.
Dear Lord! This deepened my whole perception of the absolute horror and devastation that a hurricane causes! I knew hurricanes were a big deal but until this video I never knew just HOW big and dangerous they really can be. I kind of never took them as serious as other types of storms/natural disasters. This seems like a tornado on a much bigger and slower scale. AND a tsunami on a much slower scale. Crazy!
Believe me I've practically grown up dealing with hurricanes from the the four conssecutive hurricanes that spawned Charlie all the way to this behemoth but yeah I learned after that one never again if it goes beyond a three I'm gone Ian was too dam much especially on the heels of so much prior to him what made even more heartbreaking for me and my brother is that dang storm took my late mothers highlander it wasn't savable but my brother got to say goodbye to my mom through her car
At 4:20, the house wanted to check on the car. Ok bad joke. Seriously my god, in the first hour, they could have gotten in the car, driven 20 short minutes inland and been 100% safe, having cocktails in a hotel, with at least their car intact. Instead, they lose the house, the car and almost their lives. I live here in Florida, and I will never understand why ppl in low-lying beach areas often refuse to evacuate. I can understand skepticism. But once Ian was up to cat 4, one hour offshore, and the waves started rolling in big time, there was still a 30 minute window for them to grab their crap, their pets, jump in the car and get outta there. Seriously, just get in the car and GO. They could have gotten out, and only needed to drive a few minutes inland to escape the surge- it doesn’t go that far in! I just do not understand it.
Ian crossed the state causing flooding across the state and many hurricanes have. Andrew and Katrina barreled across the lower half of the state. Look at Hugo in the Carolinas if you think the storm doesn't go inland. The safest people were the ones that went across alligator alley to Broward, storm didn't go that way at all
If you’re a science teacher, I have a question you may be able to answer. During Ian in my footage, you suddenly hear a loud “whomp whomp whomp” sound that almost sounds like helicopter blades. At the exact moment it felt like all the air was sucked out of our house. You hear my aunt scream in the background because she suddenly got lightheaded and felt the shift of what I’m guessing was a pressure shift, and at the same time I kinda stumbled forward to shut the slider all the way, and in the footage you can actually hear multiple of us react separately to whatever it was. I’m sure this was some sort of pressure drop but.. why? What caused it? What shifted within the storm itself to suddenly suck all the air out of the house and cause us all severe dizziness and headaches? In fact, you can even hear our cats reacting to it. It was the weirdest experience I’d ever felt. I genuinely thought our whole house was about to implode or some shit around us.
Storm surges are like slow motion tsunamis. We all saw what the tsunami did in Japan. This is what happens when the water stays on top of you for hours, then compounded by 150+ MPH winds! This is FAR worse than a tsunami. Thanks for posting. I'll be sure to show this to anyone who refuses to evacuate from a coastal storm.
I think a tsunami is far worse, cause you don't get much warning & a tsunami wave washes in much faster than a storm surge, plus, when a tsunami comes in on a flat coastline like Florida's, it can wash several miles inland. I read that the Indian Ocean & the Japanese tsunamis washed up to 6 miles inland on some of the more flat coastlines.
@@0clockedin0 That part is 100% true. I hadn't considered that. Tsunamis are far worse in terms of casualties. Also the speed of the water is far greater in a tsunami as well so even if the water only lasts a few minutes, it's moving at a great speed. The only thing a storm surge is more effective at is duration. It lasts for hours. Good point.
“Far worse then a tsunami” … you have several days warning before a hurricane and plenty of time to get to higher ground, tsunamis can move at several hundred mph and decimate an entire coast line in minutes, ask the 2004 tsunami survivors who is worse, what are you smoking lol
I saw an interview where there were a couple, and their dog that decided to stay and ride it out who lived in the red house on the left...thank God they made it out alive. Always listen to the warnings ⚠️
They're idiots. Bad examples for the elderly needing help, children or tourists who know nothing about the dangers of hurricanes! They should have EVACUATED much earlier when told!!!!
She held onto a tree with her 2 dogs …she is a hero in my eyes ….think about everything in the ocean that she had to keep them safe from …God blessed her ……..
Some other random timestamps: 32:30 - A white truck drives by from the north 35:47 - Two jeeps drive by from the south 38:08 - A black truck drives by from the north 42:52 - Another black truck drives by from the north 45:30 - The white truck drives by from the south 1:28:40 - Resident in pink house hangs the door back up 2:52:21 - Resident in pink house loses door again
Wow, thanks for posting this! I live in Ft. Myers and work on Sanibel. I saw the aftermath of it all, but never the surge from start to finish. I know so many people that have lost everything, this is incredible and heartbreaking knowing how many lives were lost!
Amazing footage....you can actually tell when the eye passes over and the surge reaches peak. Then when the wind direction changes that water gets blown back into the ocean.
The eye never passed over this area, that is one reason the area was damaged as badly as it was. This particular area took the brunt of the ne and se of the storm (which is usually the worst part of them and causes most of the surge, there is no relief from it like those that experience the calm eye. The eye passed over Cayo Costa (a state park on an island) and Charlotte Harbor into Punta Gorda. The first half of the storm I was on the n and ne side of the storm experience over 180 mph wind gusts while my then home was destroyed. It was like an explosion went off in the area, but we were spared the water you saw here. That side of the storm does the opposite, it pulls the water out to sea.
No fancy intro, no multiple angles, zooming in and all that, no music, no talking, nothing fake or staged for reaction, no bowling balls being dropped off bridges, no swimsuit try on, no “hey guys, im flying first class, you wont believe how I managed to do this for just TEN dollars” etc, just the footage we want to see. I wish all TH-cam videos were like this instead of all the bullshit attention seekers.
Oh yeah-I bet you fell sorry for the tree fellers also. Those trees have thousands of years of evolution. They survived when a million other trees didn't. Many other trees would just be snapped by the water pushing them. But those amazing Palms give, duck and dive. Have a nice day.
I feel bad for the two dogs in that pink house. The couple that lived in the pink house were IGNORANT and didn't heed the required evacuation..... If the owners wanted to play dumb, and take their chances on riding out one of the worst hurricanes, in the absolute epicenter of devastation, fine by me...... But the fact that they let their dogs go through that BS.
Holy crap , I had no idea , wondering what happened to the guy that parked across the street in the black escort then walked back across the street to the house that eventually got washed away . 😣 unbelievable crazy footage .
Dear God how did the pink house residents survive? This footage should be more widely published to demonstrate what a storm surge can do. This is horrific and eye opening. Thank you for posting it!
@@AlanaMarie-vj4tpyes they did. Bet they were screaming the whole time. And the least of the dudes worries was parking his car across the street. Leaving would be a better option.
I've lived in Fort Myers for 20 years. I've driven by this exact spot countless times. That little pink beach house that got swept away? Partied there more than once during my high school years. I went down to the island a few months after the hurricane. Completely surreal to see part of your hometown look like a warzone. I saw things I've only ever seen on a TV screen - blackhawk helicopters, military vehicles, FEMA camps, the list goes on. Had several friends that lived on the island who lost absolutely everything. A buddy of mine who's a firefighter worked the island the first week after the storm. Said they were pulling bodies out of rubble by the hundreds. The death toll is way higher than the official stated number. What a devastating time. But a year on, FMB is well into bouncing back. Just hope we can get through this hurricane season unscathed. Fingers crossed!
You should receive a Pulitzer Prize for this footage. From New Orleans and worked in television for twenty years. I’ve never seen storm surge footage like this. This may save a lot of people in the future!!
I watched this when you first posted it back when Ian hit. It blew me away and still does. You can never understand till you see it. Amazing video and I hope you capture alot more like this of weather. ❤
I absolutely could not believe my eyes when I first saw this footage and the building floated away down the street. I double couldn’t believe it when I learned there was people inside. I triple couldn’t believe it when I heard the people and their dog all survived!
There happened to be a life jacket in the house, which the woman put on early in the storm, almost as a joke. When it got worse she clipped the dogs' leashes to the life jacket. When the house was destroyed the man and woman got separated; he managed to get to the second floor of a surviving house some distance away, and eventually he saw the woman and the dogs in a nearby tree while the water was still high. He swam to them and all got back to the surviving structure. That's how they survived - plus a LOT of luck.
4:18:32 even the red house disappears...and I hope that their occupant in the future will no longer take the evacuation orders lightly since it seems, they were still occupying the house at 4:18:32
The video begins just before 10am and ends at 7:40pm on September 28, 2022. The camera probe is placed 15 feet up on a concrete pole at Estero Blvd and Ave C, facing northwest. I truly have not watched every second of the footage, so viewers be cautioned, there could be unknown disturbing footage. Here are a few key moments to point out…
27:30 - First sign of storm surge
29:33 - Resident of pink house moves car, goes back inside
1:04:20 - Gust blows door open on pink house
2:26:00 - Surge reaches top of fence
4:18:38 - Pink house collapse into water with residents inside (they all survived)
8:40:00 - Surge fully recedes
9:28:00 - Eerie red sunset
I remember watching y'all put out at least 1 other probe. How many in all? Hopefully the weather Gods will spare us in Morehead City,NC this year. Stay safe
How about a raw stock footage of Hurricane Ian in Florida
Do we know if anyone in the pink home survived?
@@kurttrzeciak8326 wondering the same ):
@@kurttrzeciak8326 Miraculously, both occupants and their dogs survived, there's a documentary about it on my channel with interviews.
This might be the best storm surge footage of all time. I cannot recall another video that captures the absolute scale of what happened in the way this video does. Incredible.
Can anyone else taste the salt water!?
@@pandarescueyes
Agreed!! This is THE BEST storm surge footage, I've ever seen 🌊
Man, I agree, that is basically a tsunami and I never thought of it that way before. It's truly terrifying!
Not saying there better but go ck out hurricane track. Mark suddthe probably miss spelled last name. He was first to put camera in path of storm unmanned they had it in a Isuzu rodeo and strapped it in the sand threw hurricane Katrina that is the easiest I believe anyone ever done this and he’s done it on many more. With better and better unmanned cameras
No background music,No commentary, 100% actual footage, I liked this video
Yup. Not to mention that the video has chapters for time of day. Perfect video IMO. Horrible destruction - but great footage of just how catastrophic storm surge can be.
And it has audio 👍@@josiahstearns9615
The natural sound is 😱
Bro but the sounds of the hurricane nahhh
Massive round of applause for the 3 little trees 🌳🌳🌳, their strength and determination paid off 😂
Shire did
Holy Father, Holy Son, and the Holy Spirit! = The Power of GOD ✝️
Palm trees are bad ass…
@@lq1129Tree stump and lack of the weight on the palm trees
Unfortunately almost all trees and bushes die from the salt water. Fort Myers resident here, plus I work on Sanibel Island, and everything green was dead and brown right after.
Everyone warns about storm surges but no one can understand how dangerous they are. Thank you for your video.
I’ve lived in the coast all my life (I’m in Charleston, SC), and when Hugo happened I was only 6. I know about the surge, how it happens, etc. but never have I witnessed such a video that captures just how fast and dangerous it is! This is incredible and news sources should have this at the ready to get residents in surge/flood proned areas. There are even maps available in regards to which zone you’re in (like 2, being very likely). My home is very safe from surge and flooding, however I’d essentially be on an island. Hugo was terrifying. If there’s anything above a 2 headed my way I’m gone ✌🏼 I’ll never put my kids through any experience like that. Ever.
Well, that's Republicans they don't believe in anything , so they will experience the strongest hurricane since they won't listen to the news. Just to give them warnings cause once the storm hits, no emergency vehicles won't save no one. Once the Strom has passed first,people should know how bad hurricanes are in Florida, but they always think it won't be bad or think they can go through the storm and let it pass which I'd very risky to do.
I remember seeing the pictures of boats and yachts thousands of them about 100 foot high pile caused by the storm surge of Hugo, if you didn’t see the pictures you wouldn’t believe it
@@danielwymer1580 I was 7 when Hugo happened and we were actually in Disneyworld at the time and were going home to east TN a few days after it happened and my dad wanted to drive through Charleston to see the damage and I remember thinking how crazy it was with all the stuff destroyed there. It tore up jack for sure. Oddly enough I'm gonna be back in Disneyworld this Friday and I was curious as to how Idalia might impact that trip but I think Orlando might just be going to get some rain. This video right here is absolutely horrifying. I've always wondered what the ocean might look like during a hurricane and it's definitely not something I'd want to experience first hand!
@@SimpleManGuitars1973 With hurricane Ian, the death toll on Fort Myers Beach was over 1000, The illegals are not counted , official death toll about 20 people. Huge numbers of illegals working in South Florida and they won’t go to the Hurricane shelters for fear of being sent back to Mexico or wherever
I think this is the best hurricane footage ever taken. I grew up in Florida and have seen a bunch of hurricanes, but never any footage like this. This should be used to educate people about the danger of storm surge, and why they need to evacuate when they are warned too.
Yea. And that poor man in the orange house. He never came out
Watch ohiostormchasers it’s who recorded this video
Truly truly amazing. At first I kept fast forwarding thinking surely the water was about to start going down and it just kept getting worse.
@nathanbrownmolotov8697 - I happened to stumble across this footage of Hurricane Ian on Ft. Myers Beach, but I don't understand where the camera was positioned (almost 10 hours):
th-cam.com/video/igsz7cqg-Zk/w-d-xo.html
@@CalebAchsah I found the location using google maps. The camera was located on the concrete power pole at the entrance to the beach parking at 26.45135, -81.95066 The person said the camera started getting splashed when the storm surge got up to 15 Feet. So that Camera was mounted just about that. Once the camera got splashed they lost the video about 30 seconds later.
Hearing about Milton becoming a category 5 again made me come back to this footage. I did not comment before, nor had I ever seen your channel prior to stumbling upon this video but as others have stated this has got to be some of the best hurricane footage ever taken. I do not live in a hurricane prone area (Oklahoma) so for a long time hurricanes for me were just wind and a little water, but this raw video completely changed my perspective! Watching this up to the halfway point made me realize they are more like a slow burn tsunami WITH the crazy winds. So, now, thanks to this footage I am beginning to try and learn how hurricanes actually work, so thank you for completely correcting my perspective on hurricanes and giving them the proper place on my "Mother Nature scary" list that they deserve.
Also, for those of y'all still trying to recover from Helene and those that are in Milton's path, you are in my heart and on my mind. I hope you all stay safe and have a quiet hurricane season from here on out!
But for real, I have so many questions about hurricanes now. Like, why do they have an eye? Why does there need to be a core of serenity in the middle of it? My closest point of reference is a supercell and the closest they ever come to having an eye is when a tornado comes out, so it's genuinely been on my mind as to why. I would ask when watching Milton coverage, but feel it's a bit insensitive lol
@@RandomPerson-vq9kw Anything in weather is about a balance, and so as the cyclone produces violent upward motion in the form of thunderstorms, sinking motion has to happen somewhere else. Some air is dissipated outwardly at the highest altitudes but some of this sinking air approaches the center of the storm and through compression warms which usually means drying; this produces the clear and usually calm conditions it's so well known for.
@@supernotnatural Ohhhh, okay that makes sense! Thank you for giving me an answer!
My wife and I waded chest deep in this, with my 3 year old son in my arms. We all wore life jackets. We made it to a multi-story building and a nice spanish family let us inside. I went back for our little dog and my sons hamster. I almost didn't make it back, but we saved all living things with no injuries. I am glad I chose to wear boots, jeans, nylon jacket, and a lifejacket. This is exactly what happens during surge, I tried to learn from watching Katrina. The only thing this video does not translate is the force of the wind on top of the water pushing you off balance and pushing you under. It was a terrifying experience. I've lived here all my life. I underestimated the strength of mother nature.
May God bless you and your family, I hope you are doing ok there.
Hamster is crazy
Yeah idk why we think as humans we can just automatically survive natural disasters, it’s absurd glad you made it out safe bud.
You got a 3 year old a hamster?!?
Why didn’t you evacuate when ordered?
Being 20 minutes away from this and not getting no flooding is beyond me. Thank you for this epic video!!!
My sister lives about 10 minutes away (like 2 miles inland), and they got 4 feet of surge. A neighbor of theirs drowned in his car a block away when a wall of water hit him. Violent 4' wave can easily flip a car.
This was last year. So you wouldn’t get not no flooding from Ian this year. 😂
@@QuattroZack1 *not getting any flooding. You know what I meant. I'd like to give my most sincere apologies to the youtube English teachers who have no life 🫡🤦♂️😘
@DianaDeLuna Sorry to hear that. There was areas that were inland but close to the rivers and got flooded out. It was a sad sight to drive down some streets and see people's whole life's sitting in piles of trash on the side of the road.
@@FoXXy710 good observation 👌
No edits, no talking… the eeriest part to me was from sunset to the end. Just the sound of the wind, and seeing the flashlight flickers within and around the Lani Kai… with the one light on the top of the tower fading into black. A masterpiece only mother nature could write. Thank you for sharing this video.
I live just 2 streets behind this camera. Thank you for releasing the footage with no “fluff”.
PS that pink house HAD 2 people in it at the start of the video
I was lucky enough to trust my gut and leave.
I lost everything but my life
Had ??😮
@@user-ig8vm1ns4tyea they survived barely. Which is why you don’t stay.
actually how
@@jen-a-purr
I saw the interview with the couple in that house and it wasn’t easy to watch him park across the street and enter the house in this video.
I can't believe they stayed in that fragile wood house right by the beach knowing a hurricane is coming. People have no common sense, no wonder so many die.
RIP to the “Avenue C “street sign. You held on like a hero- went down fiercely fighting and doing your duty to let all know what street you represent. 🙏🏼 🌧️ 🚏
That poor guy who went inside the building that floated away ughhh!
Thse comment a trip loll
Thse comment a trip loll
I messed up- I should have reminded everybody Avenue C really lit up a room with its presence and was loved by all who came across it. A good one lost too soon.
@@JacksJ007 remember the islanders who insisted on staying during Ike died?
Have you ever heard of Hurricane Ike from 2008?
I'm 54 and born in raised in SE FL. Been through a lot of storms/hurricanes. This is by far the best footage I've ever seen. From the surge, to wind directions change to wind speed and more, just......wow.
I grew up in pre-Katrina New Orleans and watched many hurricanes from my dad's office on the 51st floor of the Shell building. The inch thick glass in the floor to ceiling windows protected my bird's eye view of the entire city while I watched for hours as high winds and flood waters attempted to destroy it. I thought I'd never see anything that gave me a better view of the destructive power of a hurricane but I am still picking my jaw off the floor as I write this. The perspective of the camera and the length of time that was documented (before, during and after) makes this extremely powerful footage. The fact that the recording equipment was not lost is itself remarkable. Thank you for sharing this. Hopefully it can help save lives in the future. Thank you!
That was freaking insane. It’s crazy how the ocean surges up like that and then it’s gone. That red sunset was eerie indeed. Wow! Amazing footage! 👍🏼
It's hard to fathom that it's even possible, I hope this video helps people truly understand storm surge and what it can do.
@@MaxOlsonChasing we can only hope they can understand. I’m not near a beach but I can understand the power of Mother Nature. It’s out of our control. I hope people can be smart and get out in time. Homes can be replaced, people cannot.
Red sky at night sailor's delight. I am a lineman and worked storm restoration here last year and it didn't rain for the 2 weeks we were there. One of the worst storms we were on for sure.
The ocean turned into a river 😂😂😂😂
@MaxOlsonChasing I would definitely send this to the Weather Channel. If they time lapsed it and did some slower footage in-between, it demonstrates not only the surge, but the hazards of debris, collapse, and the changing wind direction throughout the duration. It would be so much better than their computer generated graphics of surge and make it so much more urgent
Everyone here on the west coast in storm surge zones and facing hurricane Milton soon should watch this and just GO
News channel and public advisory should play this
They'll be fine
@@pullingthestrings5233your saying they'll be fine in a 15-20 ft storm surge? 😮🤨
@@OliviaPachuca yes. I live in fort Myers and I've lived thru every storm unscathed.
@@pullingthestrings5233 I live in GA and I never wanna go through a cat 2 hurricane again let alone anything stronger! I could not 😩
The only thing left from the house was the stair case leading to nowhere bloody unreal and the red building on the far right completely gone it was big omg this is hard core footage!!!
Anyone in hurricane Milton's path needs to watch this before Wednesday if your planning to stay. It could save lives! Wednesday night.
FAAAAAACTS!
this is on an island man. just get on a hill and youll be safe
This video is by far the best in storm surge of a powerful hurricane. I'm 61 years old and have never ever seen that kind of water damage. It's like the entire ocean came into a regular everyday city street. Thank you so much for a very educational experience in what a powerful storm surge can do.
Exactly, "the entire ocean came into a regular everyday city street".
What blows me away (pun not intended) is how fast it went from "here's a street" to "oh, we're in the middle of the ocean now."
a foreshadowing of how Florida will end up
@@bonnie_gailor your mom
@@bonnie_gail It was underwater before, it will be underwater again. Find a Fall line map of the Eastern US, it runs through the southeastern states from Alabama, up through Middle Georgia, then through the Carolinas and up the eastern states. Everything below that line was under water not that long ago in geological time.
The sad thing is, in a few decades this street will be flooded permanently because the man-made climate change causes a rise of the sea level.
@@bonnie_gail keep telling yourself that buddy I ain't going nowhere
Watching the guy park his car, go inside the house, and then the house eventually having the windows and door forced open by the winds and being washed away is way wild.
I was wondering why no one lese noticed. Also 🤮 to your avatar.
Bro thank you I thought I was the only one that seen dudes demise like he never came out when I seen the house go I’m like noooooooo!
That’s shows you people really don’t watch the videos they see. They skimm
Do you remember which time stamp of the person going in?
@@Behehhehhejeheje I think you are right.
Incredible footage! We all owe this little camera for capturing this act of Mother Nature 😮
Nine hours of a non-stop rushing river of ocean water wiping out almost everything in its path. It’s incomprehensible. You wouldn’t believe it if this footage was not recorded. The immense and destructive power of nature is breathtaking. Living in Alabama with our sliver of the Gulf Coast, I’ve seen the aftermath of major hurricanes. But I will never look at hurricanes the same way again after seeing this. My takeaway: Always evacuate. Always.
Yep, and that’s just the beginning. In Fredrick, 1979, west Mobile (car was drown in Bayou La Batre where it was being repaired). 24 hours of the Jolly Green Giant beating on the metal door with the train of wind and whistle in the tiny crack around the door. (And the door was second floor recessed and completely covered. The next 2 weeks without water and 3 weeks without electricity. Every power pole was down in the streets. We were lucky being close to Airport Road, the first hooked back up. Never want to be near a Cat 4-5 ever again. Did go through two Cat 3 in South Florida 2004. Yeh, that was it for me! I’m up on a ridge in the middle of the nation now. I’ll stay home in the snow & ice!
wow iam breathless i stayed in the Outtrigger 2005 and 2006 not far away from the camera i've never ever could imagine those situation ... this is absolute incredible footage greetings from Germany
This is incredible footage...never seen anything like it before. I don't know how you did this or how the camera just kept on recording, but well done. Extremely powerful and educational for anyone who may question evacuating during a storm this intense.
Watch ohiostormchasers it’s who recorded this video
Truly incredible when your family is in this house. Idiot.
They should show this video on TV before every hurricane season start . BEST VIDEO EVER !!!!!!!!!!!
Its like starting this at the perfect time so every bit of it is in full daylight so you can see exactly what happened from start to finish. Incredible footage.
29:34 - The man who lived in the second floor apartment of the red house drives his car to park it in the lot across the street, while his wife / girlfriend waves to him from their porch. This attempt to save the car from the arriving storm surge was sadly inadequate, to say the least. This couple astonishingly managed to survive this disaster, as their home was completely destroyed, which of course is shown in this video at 4:18:36. The windows and door have long since been blown in by the wind at this point, and after repeated hits by waves, the front wall of the house finally gives way and the entire second story detaches and is pushed away to the right.
I was wondering what happened to him.
@@looselipssinkships6543Oh wow! Thanks for that update and so happy to hear they all survived!
Oh my god. Thank you! I saw the guy walk into the house, but never leave and just felt my heart sink when the surge was above the house and it was gone at the end. The idea of witnessing someone in their final moments…
I do have one question concerning the car. Did they find it? If so, where? I hope they had good insurance on it. I am glad to hear that both them and their pets made it out
@@looselipssinkships6543I'm so happy that the dogs survived! If those idiots wanted to commit suicide, there are easier ways! They should've never placed those poor animals in such a dangerous situation!
Absolutely incredible, and Extremely terrifying footage! Im happy to hear the residents in the pink house somehow survived!!
Is that pink?
They jump out at some point. I'm trying to spot them rn.😅
@@andy31793bruh… pink red whatever…. 🤡 shyt
@@andy31793Yes, a reddish pink shade.
I noticed at the start that there was double garage doors open in that house...then later they were closed..and i thought oh No , there are people in there...How DID they Live Thru That !!!
Best Storm surge video that I've ever seen. And the ability to skip back and forth from the very beginning to the very end makes for a shocking contrast!
Thanks Max, this is an important teaching tool and even a historical artifact. Up there with the videos from 2004 showing everyone for the first time what a tsunami looks like. Amazing that at this level of surge, it doesn’t even look like a flood any more - it just looks like the ocean.
Sorry- But that is not what a tsunami looks like. There is no wind generally with a tsnami and no gusts driving the surface waters. There may in many cases be no rain or wind either. A Tsnami is generally a sudden wave up wave arriving with out the days and days of warning when a hurricane hits. A major disturbance in the earth's crust undersea water jolts the sudden rise in sea level resulting in wave after wave rolling in. It's appearance is vastly different. I recommend seeing some videos of a tsnami before trying to inform all that the above looks like a tsnami. A Tsnami looks some what closer to a tidal wave. But it is not a tidal wave as it is not tidal. LOL-Had I not seen the Japanese Tsnami -I may have believed you as I would not have known the difference. But once you know the difference then the difference is easy to spot.
@@MikeGreenwood51 I never said this video showed a tsunami or looked like a tsunami. I said the significance of the video was comparable to that of the tsunami videos of 2004.
@@MikeGreenwood51 go off man
Dumass😂
@@MikeGreenwood51 he didn't say this is what a tsunami looks like; he was comparing it to the importance of the videos from 2004 when people saw footage of a tsunami for the first time. Not to an actual tsunami.
I was on holiday in Miami from Scotland whilst this was going on, it's difficult to comprehend the devastation and destruction mother nature is capable of without videos like this.
Around the 5 mimute mark a black car (mazda 3?) Made a left turn & parked. Seeing that car driven for the last time got me.🥹. And just like that, that persons vehicle is written off if they survived to care about it!
@@willc5512 the owner lives in the pink house
Just because Mother Nature's fury can now be recorded, doesn't make her any less dangerous for cheesing her off.
If you`re from bonnle Scotland you must be used to a lot of rain! 😄
Spring is a better time. Forget August and September. October never seems to have many storms anymore. For quite a while storms predominately hit the east coast, now it hits the gulf side more.
Thanks for posting this. I lost my home to Hurricane Michael, and could not imagine what happened- now I know.
I sped up the video bc it's seemingly 9 hours, and it was almost unbelievable to watch. This video will be a part of the history of hurricane Ian and will live on TH-cam for generations. Great video.
Wow....just impressive. All of it. Am I the only one impressed at this camera? Nearly 10 hours straight, no telling how many Gigabytes of data, excellent battery life (or supplemental power), and lastly - the structure it was mounted to (utility pole)? Very impressive!
1080P video averaging between 2~4 Gigabytes an hour, So a 9 hour video Would be around the 30 GB range, so not too bad.
And although this video here is 1080P, 4K is a different matter, That is around 45 GB an hour So a 9 hour video would be over 400 GB.
Yes I want to know the brand of that camera withstanding all the elements.
@@ddellano7273 From what I've seen of some of the behind the scenes of that video, The camera was in was a big metal box that was Stainless steel strapped to one of those big square concrete telephone Poles.
I'm impressed too, enough that I would like to know which brand is this. Awesome for real
I feel sorry for the lost lives
Is it true that the people having no idea about this through news or people are not ready for such destruction.
I live in Pakistan and whenever the flood comes the government announced to evacuate and most of the people use to leave but still there are some who always wait till the end or never leave and die.
We use to call them uneducated and we always look at European and American countries that people are sensible and listen to their governments . But after looking at this horrified disaster I'm surprised y the people decided to be at their homes.
If government not announced to leave area or government has no idea about this .
Whose fault is this.
Continuously I'm. Watching and praying for all of you to be save and accept my condolences for the lost lives .
Love and prayers
From Pakistan
Watching how it intensifies then slight calming before the wind surge reverses is incredible. Those 3 palm trees stayed rooted. The sign slowly going past the screen did make me giggle ( I’m sorry )
Amazing yet scary footage.
the best storm surge footage of all time. what an incredible force of nature. I was on the edge of my seat. There are no words for this. How quickly that water came up, and how bravely that red house in the foreground tried to hold on. But in the end it lost that battle. All the best to those people there, especially because on August 16 of this year 2023, they again received so much water. I pray for them.
29:50 The person who drives up, parks their car, goes into their home…but the car never left. Did…did we just see someone in their final moments? The house is completely washed away at the end of the video…it is so sad and heartbreaking to see. Did they leave? Did someone pick them up before the storm surges?
EDIT: someone posted a similar comment and found out they survived - details are in that thread.
They chose to stay with their two dogs! How insane and selfish! I hope the dogs survived!
@@theresedavis2526 ...seriously...? 🤨
@@theresedavis2526 Yes, thankfully both dogs survived too.
@@theresedavis2526 how is that selfish to stay with your dogs?
@@theresedavis2526not selfish but stupid and ignorant
This video is amazing! I loved the insights you shared. Keep up the great work!
This was absolutely incredible! To see the storm surge completely unfold like that was mind blowing. Thank you for this amazing footage! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
The continuous surge is absolutely incredible. You never see this on news channels. Sorry for all lives lost and valuable possessions.
That is what killed Ft Myers Beach for sure was the surge and the fact the storm just SAT on us lord knows i'll never forget it and how beyond grateful I was it died down early enough for us to get to a safer place since the roof of our house had fully caved in on me and my brother and father yeah we definitely learned our lesson that day NEVER AGAIN
@sarahbrown7725 I am from Port Charlotte and same. Fire Fighters came the morning after and made us all evacuate, because the water kept rising(Peace River).
Thank you for the video. This should be shown in schools. Its the perfect lesson of an hurricane.
Barrier islands are formed by storm events. Anyone wishing to buy or build real estate on a barrier island should first watch this incredible video! This footage should also be used in meteorology classes. A very valuable teaching tool! Thank you for filming and posting this video, it's a wonderful contribution to weather science.
This video is actually a stark reminder for us people who live on the barrier islands. Im just glad I live on the East side of FL we never seem to get much here in the way of storm surge. We are just in the peak time of the hurricane season so my neighbors keep safe and as we say...Hunker down heh
Far too many barrier islands along the Gulf Coast and Atlantic Coast of the USA have been heavily developed. With hindsight, this should never have happened - they could have been used for recreation, with minimal structures that could be destroyed by storms without much financial loss, and without any homes or substantial businesses allowed. But it's several hundred years too late to change what's there now.
This was amazing and should be watched by everyone in storm surge areas, then they just might evacuate and take greater care of their lives! Thanks so much for sharing!
Only liking this to have it saved as a reminder what everyone there went threw and still are to this day almost 2 years later, this place was a second home to me, I’m happy it’s coming back strong 💪❤️
This is probably the most exact recollection of what I saw when Hurricane Katrina hit my town that sat on the MS/LA state line in the southernmost point of Hancock county. This was chilling to sit through.
Wow, you must have been very close to where the eye of Katrina made landfall! Everybody remembers the flooding in New Orleans, but the hell and destruction that the Biloxi/Bay St. Louis area of Mississippi should not be forgotten either. As a Hurricane Andrew survivor, I can certainly empathize with you.
The term "a picture is worth 1000 words" rings even more true when it comes to video. If anyone on Earth ever wondered what the full ferocity of hurricane/typhoon storm surge is like, let them watch this video for a taste. Easily the best example of storm surge ever recorded on video, this terrifying footage should be nominated for one of the documentary-category Academy Awards. Many compliments and thanks to the people who placed this camera and produced this awesome video.
My dog and I survived category 5 Hurricane Andrew in the bathtub of my first story apartment in 1992. As the building came apart around me, I was blissfully unaware of storm surge. Thankfully the surge never came in Andrew, or I certainly would not be writing this today. God bless the people of Fort Myers Beach.
I love your content! Keep up the amazing work!
No talking,all Hurricane! Spectacularly riveting. I can't believe that anyone would even want to build a simple wooden house in a area known for hurricanes. I'd build a house on stilts made of steel and concrete and hurricane proof glass. Build it 5 feet higher than the highest recorded storm surge and sit back in safety as everything around you gets washed away. People would pay to Hurricane party at your place! Why deal with insurance and rebuilding, build it indestructible to begin with!
Shout out to the 3 palm trees to the left... True representation of Florida,you can knock a few leaves off our surface but in the end of every storm we will always be left standing...
at the cost of unconceivable amounts of money
@@bluepilltaker you must be from up north... You represent the ones who's always trying to still Florida's joy, you represent the water that tried to knock those 3 trees down,who eventually had to go away after we were left "standing"... #Florida strong
@@w_t_v_s Florida’s “Joy” wow you people are the most entitled people on earth
It also shows you WHY palm trees grow like that
@@w_t_v_sBut what happens when the water stays? You do know you are on a sinking ship right?
I love the content you’re sharing! Keep it up!
1.4 million views,you can see why..rarely is footage this good!
All 9 hours of this truly harrowing footage should be required viewing for all those who plan to move to Florida. NO WONDER MOST OF THE DEATHS WERE DUE TO DROWNING. That the 2 people and 2 dogs in the pink house somehow survived is nothing short of a miracle.
You mean people actually stayed in that house washed away!! And with pets too😮 that's disgraceful. Should be arrested for animal cruelty.
@@marksapollo 🤣🤣😂😂
@@marksapollo These animal rights freaks have no chill.
Absolutely incredible video, seen a few storm surge vids but nothing like this, how it goes from a trickle on a road to full blown middle of the sea is incredible, mesmerising, incomprehensible and nightmarish! Top, top video. Kudos to the 3 tree survivors and a shout out to the upside down open sign which gave it.its best 😄
The fact that someone parked that black car got out and ran to that house for it to not even 3 almost 4 hours later get just sweeped up shows u hurricane are no joke the coastaline mainly but it still can get so bad other places and so many lives are taken bc people dont listen! Thank you for sharing this and showing pwople how dangerous these actually can be!
I lived 5 miles off from here and when Ian hit. Our town is still trying to rebuild and it’ll never be the same. So many lives lost as they could not give out an accurate estimate due to failure of evacuation notices. All of our barrier island such as fort myers beach, sanible, captiva, and st James city are completely gone. In land we have minimal signage and basic street lights now most roofs have never been repaired and many are still blue trapped. Thank you for sharing this video of my beautiful town as we still pick up the pieces a year later ❤️
DeSantis is a piece of work! Vote him out!
The barrier islands are there to protect us, it is a shame there has been so much construction on them. Now they want to build back bigger.
Thanks!
Just drove down this street last week and if you didn't know the building was there before, you wouldn't know it even existed. For example, Hooters was just a few yards behind this camera and there is absolutely nothing there now except sand and some hardly visible foundation. Almost every wooden structure on FMB has been completely wiped out. The majority of Highrise condos down Estero Blvd (this street) are still surrounded by chain-link fencing. Not a tasteless plug, but my channel has several videos if you want to see more.
The high rise all the way on the left, was it condemned?
@@pangalactictuber it hasn't yet. That's the Lina Kia Resort. Ground floor wiped out and second floor has huge damage. They are working on the resort, but I can only guess if the property will be condemned or not.
Correct name is Lani Kai, which the name of a 1920s subdivision on the island of Oahu, Hawaii.
One minute you are in the relative safety of a building. The next minute that building is in the middle of the ocean. Absolutely terrifying
Did that man not come back out of the red house? I see the stairs still standing.
@@kimtanguay6901 He had to have drowned if he was in that little red home. Horrible way to go!!!
It was a man, his wife and their dog. Somehow they all survived by clinging to trees. Crazy...
@@High-AlphaI feel bad for the dog!! To have to live with someone dumb enough to stay there, knowing.
It's insane not to have evacuated. How does fear of the ocean not set in is beyond me
So sad watching the man park his car across the street and go into his home and watch it literally be ripped away and shattered. RIP. 149 deaths in Florida from Ian. I live close to the beach and have been for 41 years NEVER stay on the beach during a Hurricane, always leave even if it's just inland a bit more.
4:36:00-6:36:00 people who stayed endured 2 hours of hell on Earth; a teaching moment for anyone who considers staying ahead of a major storm. Also a good teaching moment for developers looking to build in hurricane prone landscapes.
And pretty much universally the people who stay and undergo these incredibly scary and stressful experiences say they would NEVER do it again, and they advise others to never make the mistake that they did.
Yes dont build or live near water!
They're lucky they survived. It's INCREDIBLY DUMB to stay when a huge hurricane is coming and you live next to the ocean. They should have evacuated like any sane person.
@@GeorgeFitness-yo8blI’ve got family in the outer banks of NC. They practically live right on top of the water, there’s a dock right at the end of my grandpa’s street. Almost all of the houses directly on the coast or out on Cedar Island or Harkers Island are built a good story off the ground, because they also get some major hurricanes, and the risk of storm surge and flash floods in bad weather is very real there. Everyone living in places like that in the banks evacuates inland regardless because all it takes is some good surge and those barrier islands are gone. If you’re going to live on the coast, and from someone in Florida who’s lived a half hour from the beach my whole life with family in one of the most idyllic coastal towns in the country, at the very least be smart about it. Make sure you go into it knowing that living on the water means getting the worst of storms like this and get the hell out when they come. I was in the OBX a week ago and a tiny squall came through, and that tiny squall wasn’t so tiny standing on the beach in 50mph wind gusts.
The man who goes into the house at 29:50 …
I truly enjoy watching videos like this. It gives you a sense of what people go through in a hurricane. Great footage.
Amazing footage
Those trees showed so much strength that the red brink house didn’t
Absolutely incredible and historic footage of such a devastating storm. Thank you so much for uploading the full version!
THIS IS SO CRAZY AND WHAT A GREAT CAMERA, SO SAD.. BEST VIDEO COVERAGE OF ANY STORM FOOTAGE EVER.
Someone said it long before I ever saw this video and their description was perfect: incredible.
Perhaps I could add one more word: catastrophic.
This is the closest you can get to witnessing a storm. For a better effect, have a strong fan blowing in your face, with a water spray. GOOD VID !!!
I grew up & raised in ft Myers/ naples area literally for 27 yrs. This video got me tears 😢 unbelievable.
Being in the house when its floating away would be so scary
27:00 is when the waves first start
1:28:40 the door to the red house closes meaning someone was watching the water rise for a while. They should have evacuated.
I suspect they were having second thoughts by then, but it was too late.
Dear Lord! This deepened my whole perception of the absolute horror and devastation that a hurricane causes! I knew hurricanes were a big deal but until this video I never knew just HOW big and dangerous they really can be. I kind of never took them as serious as other types of storms/natural disasters. This seems like a tornado on a much bigger and slower scale. AND a tsunami on a much slower scale. Crazy!
Believe me I've practically grown up dealing with hurricanes from the the four conssecutive hurricanes that spawned Charlie all the way to this behemoth but yeah I learned after that one never again if it goes beyond a three I'm gone Ian was too dam much especially on the heels of so much prior to him what made even more heartbreaking for me and my brother is that dang storm took my late mothers highlander it wasn't savable but my brother got to say goodbye to my mom through her car
This footage is insane.
At 4:20, the house wanted to check on the car. Ok bad joke. Seriously my god, in the first hour, they could have gotten in the car, driven 20 short minutes inland and been 100% safe, having cocktails in a hotel, with at least their car intact. Instead, they lose the house, the car and almost their lives. I live here in Florida, and I will never understand why ppl in low-lying beach areas often refuse to evacuate. I can understand skepticism. But once Ian was up to cat 4, one hour offshore, and the waves started rolling in big time, there was still a 30 minute window for them to grab their crap, their pets, jump in the car and get outta there. Seriously, just get in the car and GO. They could have gotten out, and only needed to drive a few minutes inland to escape the surge- it doesn’t go that far in! I just do not understand it.
Ian crossed the state causing flooding across the state and many hurricanes have. Andrew and Katrina barreled across the lower half of the state. Look at Hugo in the Carolinas if you think the storm doesn't go inland. The safest people were the ones that went across alligator alley to Broward, storm didn't go that way at all
Just skipping from timestamp to timestamp shows how powerful this storm was. It's crazy
Wow this was incredible.
THE BEST footage
Best storm video. A science teacher’s dream. 🙏for Floridians.
If you’re a science teacher, I have a question you may be able to answer. During Ian in my footage, you suddenly hear a loud “whomp whomp whomp” sound that almost sounds like helicopter blades. At the exact moment it felt like all the air was sucked out of our house. You hear my aunt scream in the background because she suddenly got lightheaded and felt the shift of what I’m guessing was a pressure shift, and at the same time I kinda stumbled forward to shut the slider all the way, and in the footage you can actually hear multiple of us react separately to whatever it was. I’m sure this was some sort of pressure drop but.. why? What caused it? What shifted within the storm itself to suddenly suck all the air out of the house and cause us all severe dizziness and headaches? In fact, you can even hear our cats reacting to it. It was the weirdest experience I’d ever felt. I genuinely thought our whole house was about to implode or some shit around us.
A round of applause for the team - the badass camera and concrete pole it was on 👏👏 (I assume it had its own power supply?)
Storm surges are like slow motion tsunamis. We all saw what the tsunami did in Japan. This is what happens when the water stays on top of you for hours, then compounded by 150+ MPH winds! This is FAR worse than a tsunami. Thanks for posting. I'll be sure to show this to anyone who refuses to evacuate from a coastal storm.
Hopefully it will change some minds. I would never ever want to ride out a weather event like this.
I think a tsunami is far worse, cause you don't get much warning & a tsunami wave washes in much faster than a storm surge, plus, when a tsunami comes in on a flat coastline like Florida's, it can wash several miles inland. I read that the Indian Ocean & the Japanese tsunamis washed up to 6 miles inland on some of the more flat coastlines.
@@0clockedin0 That part is 100% true. I hadn't considered that. Tsunamis are far worse in terms of casualties. Also the speed of the water is far greater in a tsunami as well so even if the water only lasts a few minutes, it's moving at a great speed. The only thing a storm surge is more effective at is duration. It lasts for hours. Good point.
“Far worse then a tsunami” … you have several days warning before a hurricane and plenty of time to get to higher ground, tsunamis can move at several hundred mph and decimate an entire coast line in minutes, ask the 2004 tsunami survivors who is worse, what are you smoking lol
I saw an interview where there were a couple, and their dog that decided to stay and ride it out who lived in the red house on the left...thank God they made it out alive. Always listen to the warnings ⚠️
OMG I thought for sure they were goners... they literally rode it out...
Thank god they’re okay
@@laceyp9687
!LITERALLY! 👀
They're idiots. Bad examples for the elderly needing help, children or tourists who know nothing about the dangers of hurricanes!
They should have EVACUATED much earlier when told!!!!
She held onto a tree with her 2 dogs …she is a hero in my eyes ….think about everything in the ocean that she had to keep them safe from …God blessed her ……..
Some other random timestamps:
32:30 - A white truck drives by from the north
35:47 - Two jeeps drive by from the south
38:08 - A black truck drives by from the north
42:52 - Another black truck drives by from the north
45:30 - The white truck drives by from the south
1:28:40 - Resident in pink house hangs the door back up
2:52:21 - Resident in pink house loses door again
Wow, thanks for posting this! I live in Ft. Myers and work on Sanibel. I saw the aftermath of it all, but never the surge from start to finish. I know so many people that have lost everything, this is incredible and heartbreaking knowing how many lives were lost!
Amazing footage....you can actually tell when the eye passes over and the surge reaches peak. Then when the wind direction changes that water gets blown back into the ocean.
Mother Nature is freaky
The eye never passed over this area, that is one reason the area was damaged as badly as it was. This particular area took the brunt of the ne and se of the storm (which is usually the worst part of them and causes most of the surge, there is no relief from it like those that experience the calm eye. The eye passed over Cayo Costa (a state park on an island) and Charlotte Harbor into Punta Gorda. The first half of the storm I was on the n and ne side of the storm experience over 180 mph wind gusts while my then home was destroyed. It was like an explosion went off in the area, but we were spared the water you saw here. That side of the storm does the opposite, it pulls the water out to sea.
No fancy intro, no multiple angles, zooming in and all that, no music, no talking, nothing fake or staged for reaction, no bowling balls being dropped off bridges, no swimsuit try on, no “hey guys, im flying first class, you wont believe how I managed to do this for just TEN dollars” etc, just the footage we want to see. I wish all TH-cam videos were like this instead of all the bullshit attention seekers.
Anyone who thinks about ignoring the evac order should watch this video! Mother nature is terrifying.
I know I'll sound weird but I always feel sorry for the poor trees! 🌳 😢🌳
Oh yeah-I bet you fell sorry for the tree fellers also. Those trees have thousands of years of evolution. They survived when a million other trees didn't. Many other trees would just be snapped by the water pushing them. But those amazing Palms give, duck and dive. Have a nice day.
Me too!
I was thinking of all the poor critters caught up in all this.
Me too! Palm trees look like drunken hags after a hurricane!
I feel bad for the two dogs in that pink house. The couple that lived in the pink house were IGNORANT and didn't heed the required evacuation..... If the owners wanted to play dumb, and take their chances on riding out one of the worst hurricanes, in the absolute epicenter of devastation, fine by me...... But the fact that they let their dogs go through that BS.
This seriously should be required watching for anyone living on the coast who refuses to evacuate and thinks they can survive the storm surge.
Seeing this in like real time. It just hits different. I can't describe it really. How scary.
This is amazing! You captured a full storm surge from the very beginning showing how dangerous these are! scary
Experiencing this must be truly terrifying. Incredible footage!
I saw the back story of the couple in the pink house. What a scary ordeal they encountered. I'm happy they survived that nightmare.
Where can I find said back story??
And I'm sure that ordeal they put themselves through taught them a valuable lesson.
Holy crap , I had no idea , wondering what happened to the guy that parked across the street in the black escort then walked back across the street to the house that eventually got washed away . 😣 unbelievable crazy footage .
Dear God how did the pink house residents survive? This footage should be more widely published to demonstrate what a storm surge can do. This is horrific and eye opening. Thank you for posting it!
@@AlanaMarie-vj4tpyes they did. Bet they were screaming the whole time. And the least of the dudes worries was parking his car across the street. Leaving would be a better option.
Did he survive? I never seen him come out.
Dont know. Good question.
@@Godschild49
@@Godschild49 watch the documentary there is a interview of them explaining how him and wife and dogs survived
@@Godschild49 They didn't come out, but they survived.
I've lived in Fort Myers for 20 years. I've driven by this exact spot countless times. That little pink beach house that got swept away? Partied there more than once during my high school years. I went down to the island a few months after the hurricane. Completely surreal to see part of your hometown look like a warzone. I saw things I've only ever seen on a TV screen - blackhawk helicopters, military vehicles, FEMA camps, the list goes on. Had several friends that lived on the island who lost absolutely everything. A buddy of mine who's a firefighter worked the island the first week after the storm. Said they were pulling bodies out of rubble by the hundreds. The death toll is way higher than the official stated number. What a devastating time. But a year on, FMB is well into bouncing back. Just hope we can get through this hurricane season unscathed. Fingers crossed!
Is the island was being told about the 155 mile wind
Does the words Hurricane Ike ring your ears that Bolivar, Crystal Beach and Gilchrist were destroyed after the storm?
You should receive a Pulitzer Prize for this footage. From New Orleans and worked in television for twenty years. I’ve never seen storm surge footage like this. This may save a lot of people in the future!!
I watched this when you first posted it back when Ian hit. It blew me away and still does. You can never understand till you see it. Amazing video and I hope you capture alot more like this of weather. ❤
I absolutely could not believe my eyes when I first saw this footage and the building floated away down the street. I double couldn’t believe it when I learned there was people inside. I triple couldn’t believe it when I heard the people and their dog all survived!
awesome I was so wondering about that thank God!
Ooooh!… What?! 👀 They survived?!… Good GAWD! 🙏🏽
Thanks for that much needed info… 👍🏽
They had two dogs!! And both survived 💛
There happened to be a life jacket in the house, which the woman put on early in the storm, almost as a joke. When it got worse she clipped the dogs' leashes to the life jacket. When the house was destroyed the man and woman got separated; he managed to get to the second floor of a surviving house some distance away, and eventually he saw the woman and the dogs in a nearby tree while the water was still high. He swam to them and all got back to the surviving structure. That's how they survived - plus a LOT of luck.
If I was in there shoes id be at church everyday until my death after surviving that
4:18:32 even the red house disappears...and I hope that their occupant in the future will no longer take the evacuation orders lightly since it seems, they were still occupying the house at 4:18:32
The red house literally vanished 💀
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Fr stop-
And the trees darkened 💀
Not even funny. People died on this beach. I'm from here
@@supaded973what makes you think he was laughing?
This really needs to be shown nationally.... ❤❤❤❤❤❤