*Correction*: Toilets have angled jets which causes the water to spin as it descends. The Coriolis Effect does exist however and is the reason for the hurricane spin direction. All things remaining equal, it does also have an effect on the direction of spin for water flowing through a pipe, but it's contribution is usually considered so small as to be negligible. These videos are not scripted and much of the content is delivered extemporaneously. Every once in a while I may make a throw away comment that is incorrect but has little to no bearing on the overall content. Thanks for watching!

@rhamph

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Paused the video to look for this comment. Thanks for having a correction!

@d00dEEE

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Ha, no harm done, it's just one of those things that creeps into "common knowledge" (too many people watched that Simpsons episode, I guess 😂).

@tbernardi001

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And its why Stadium Waves move in the opposite direction in Australia

@stevendelizasoain9237

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If the toilet was big enough, the Coriolis Effect would work by itself. 😉 The angle of the jets are designed to take advantage of the Coriolis Effect. Still ... Your point was correct on how the Coriolis Effect is the reason for the wind directions in hurricanes. A better example might be the whirlpool created when you empty the bathtub.

@MostlyLoveOfMusic

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Respect to you for the clarification

When I was only 4 years-old I survived Hurricane Camile, on the Gulf Coast at Gulfport, Mississippi. My father was a Navy Hospital Corpsman assigned to the SeaBee base at Gulfport and we took shelter in the base Dispensary (Medical Clinic), which was deemed the only "hurricane-proof" structure on the base at that time. Ironically, this assignment was his "reward" for volunteering for an extended tour in VietNam with the 1st Marine Airwing and the 3rd Marines. That's another story.... Long and short: That storm kicked our asses. It had one of the lowest atmospheric pressures and highest sea-level windspeeds ever measured. When it was over, our house was the only one left standing on our entire block, and even so, all of our possessions were soaked with water. I recall looking out of the tiny windows of the dispensary (part of the reason it was hurricane-proof) and seeing utility poles being rocked back and forth more than 45 degrees and three-story barracks exploding from the wind and pressure. It was horrifying to a 4 year-old. Then, as I learned later, my father and his fellow Navy personnel employed their AmTracks (Amphibious Personnel Carriers) to go out into the storm to start rescuing people who didn't heed the warnings and stayed in their homes and condos near the coast. They rescued dozens of people that night and then hundreds over the next few days. (Edit) They also recovered dozens of bodies of the deceased.... And there were alot..... The locals said that the storm-surge was like nothing ever seen, nor spoken of in family memory. houses that had stood for centuries were wiped out. Live Oaks that were hundreds of years old were stripped bare and didn't survive. A Category 5 storm is no joke, and I'm lucky that my father and mother had the good sense to move us to a secure shelter.

@steveburgoyne4851

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@Userxyz-z2d

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Thats everything, your parents have common sense! (Edit, my Son is Navy lifer).

@glengarbera7367

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Your dad was the Real Deal. America needs roll models like your father now more the ever.

@paulsuprono7225

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I experienced the same when Dad, who just got his Bachelors in Electrical Engineering from New Haven College in Connecticut, and moved his family to Louisiana to be employed by Domino Sugar in New Orleans. We moved from our first house . . . six months before Hurricane Betsey came along. That house became enmeshed in 5 feet of water. After Hurricane Camille, he decided to return to the northeast. All we lost, this time was our electricity, for about four days. All in all, as as family we decided on these hurricanes off the gulf coast, we're not for us ! 💀🇺🇸👎

@williamford9564

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I was born in 1959 into a Navy family in the Florida Panhandle. My father was relocated to Newport Rhode Island somewhere around 1965 and we moved to Philadelphia when he retired in 1968. My first remembrances of weather was Camille in 1969, seeing the news reports of the devastation on TV. My parents said we never had a hurricane when we lived down south but there were hurricanes and such that hit other parts of Florida and we sometimes got the fringes of the rain bands or remnants. They told us kids "not to mess with hurricanes" when the news told stories of people who held "hurricane parties" on the Mississippi coast and paid the ultimate price when their high rise buildings were no match for a 20 foot storm surge. I am retired myself now and would love the Florida sunshine and year round warm climate but I want nothing to do with hurricanes.

With a 20 year old house, it's possible it has "hurricane clips" to hold the roof on. I think they started getting popular around 30 years ago.

@stevendelizasoain9237

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"Hurricane clips" were required in Florida after Hurricane Andrew in 1992. Older housed have to add additional hurricane ties installed when the roof is redone.

@mikewithers299

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In the 80's as a framer in South West Florida we were mainly using hurricane straps on trusses and other roof members. Hurricane clips were mainly used in small framing members that were attached to strapped trusses. After hurricane Andrew all that changed. No more 1/2" plywood roof sheathing. No more staples. Everything was nailed with #8 and #16 common nails. Gable ends had to be concrete block not trusses. I saw Andrew's damage when I moved there to help rebuild. What a mess!

@Userxyz-z2d

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We wanted to add on to our home in SoCalif, that area gets Santana winds. In 1982, building codes mandated hurricane bolts (or whatever they were) to the foundation AND roof. Im noticing newer homes, even in Ft Meyers did very well against Ian.

Glad you and your family are okay. My grandma, who thankfully was out of town when Ian hit, lost pretty much everything in her ground-level home on Sanibel. My dad somehow didn't get flood water in his house, even though he lives on the Caloosahatchee, but his boat got thrown off the lift and landed in a parking lot 50 yards away. Someone else's boat was sitting in their driveway when they came home. Sanibel is sort of my home town. My family moved there in 1997, so I lived there until I went away to college in 2002, and besides visiting several times a year, I had the opportunity to live there from 2014-2016, with my kids attending The Sanibel School. I haven't been back for various reasons since we moved back to Kansas City in 2016, but I'm going down next month because I have to see it for myself to process the loss. Seeing Fort Myers Beach wiped away is incredible. My wife and I used to go for long walks on FMB when we were in high school, and we'd get ice cream at the Kilwin's in Times Square. Our first kiss was under the bridge. As a kid, I rode my bike all over Sanibel, down to the lighthouse and up through Ding Darling. It was a shock when Charley came through in 2004 and took out all the invasive Australian Pines, but I'm sure I'll be even more shocked when I see what the island looks like now. I hope people can recover and rebuild to a stronger standard, although we need to have a serious conversation about how many times we want to rebuild on barrier islands before we admit that Mother Nature will do as she pleases with them, regardless of the consequences to us.

@DanielRichards644

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Some member of my family has had a time share (it's switched hands a few times) since I was a little kid the first week of hurricane season (beginning off the off season for Sanibel), so we used to spend a week every summer on the island, we first stayed at CasaYBel but then changed to Tortuga Beach Club, one year we stayed at Fort Myers Beach for some reason, i've spotted the places I remember from that trip just gutted from the storm surge if they even still exist, our hotel was walking distance from the pier, I remember hanging out with some locals we met on the pier and a guy setting up a telescope to view Saturn (this was over 20 years ago). The hard truth is we need people to live on the barrier islands so they get rebuilt after storms like this or else those islands will go unmaintained and not get repaired after storms which will result in even more danger to the main land due to the lack of the barrier island protection. Sanibel has one of the strictest building codes in the nation, thats why so much of it remains standing with only the older buildings suffering severe damage, where FMB was largely older structures due to restrictions on new buildings, so most of the buildings weren't to the same standard we expect today, thats why the damage was so much worse then Sanibel.

Thank you for posting this. I cannot imagine holding that door for so long! My husband and I retired to Cape Coral two years ago. My husband had eye surgery the day before the hurricane. I managed to get a great company to come out and put up the hurricane shutters that day. The next morning, I got a hotel in Miami ( pet friendly) and we packed and drove across Alligator Alley. We stayed in a hotel until we got power back...about two weeks. We met so many of our neighbors at the hotel and heard so many of their stories. I am glad we decided to leave rather than sit it out. It was horrific. We have some damage, but nothing that cannot be fixed. We were lucky. So many people lost their lives; lost everything. Lived through hurricanes, blizzards, and Nor'easters on the coast of MA...not leaving FL.

I’m in CA and have experienced several earthquakes and wildfires, but this video of your recent experience in FL made me feel the power of the storm and your resultant concern for your safety. Glad that you survived.

@ginadelsasso288

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I'm in Illinois and was on vacation during this storm. We were in Daytona on the opposite side of landfall and it was still super scary. We were on the 4th floor of our resort and we got so much water on our unit from the ac unit and the sliding glass doors. It was like being in a carwash for 24 hours or more. I love vacationing down there but I could never live there because those storms are just insane! California is beautiful to vacation in as well. Maybe I will give Florida a break next year and head out there instead.

@minirock000

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You mean cavalier concern for his safety.

Wow! It is often difficult to convey weather in a video. But I could FEEL this weather. Amazing footage.

@BuildingIntegrity

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Thank you for the kind words.

@brianwest2775

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While watching this, my windows are open on a very gusty day, so I was feeling the wind as I watched it. 😆

@d00dEEE

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Even these excellent videos don't capture the half of it. I was on South Padre Island, TX, about five years ago when a hurricane blew through. MUCH milder than Ian, but still I recall the wind just hammering my chest when I went out to observe.

@tiffanysandmeier4753

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My husband lived in Orlando during Charlie. He was supposed to move out of his apartment that day to return home after his work study.

@sunnydaze2359

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@@BuildingIntegrity I can understand now why some people want to stay in their homes even though it will be a fierce storm. Just think if you were not there to hold those doors what would’ve happened to your house.

This remains one of the finest channels on KZread. I'm a musician. I know little about structural engineering. But I just love every video you put out. I'm glad you're safe. Looking forward to the detailed analysis to come.

I live just SE of Tampa and was very fortunate to only have gusts to 75mph. I enjoy your videos. I am a PE and had structural engineers working in my company. To replace my metal hurricane panels I upgraded my patio sliders to wind and impact rated. They weighed 500 lbs and are extremely stout. Something to consider going forward. Glad you made it through with just a power outage.

Man, that footage is unquestionably the best hurricane footage I’ve ever seen. No news channel or weather center has ever shown the true intensity from a bullseye hit, at least that I’ve ever seen. Glad you were able to hunker down and make it through, brother.

@BuildingIntegrity

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Wow, thanks for the kind words!

@russlehman2070

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Yes it was excellent. Reed Timmer also got some great video of eyewall winds and storm surge from Pine Island.

@mikewithers299

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@@BuildingIntegrity Josh I'm so glad you could show people how garage and entry doors move during a hurricane. Yours had good bracing and still flexed a lot. I've built homes for decades and try to explain this to others, but that was a good video and explanation of what is actually keeping that door closed during this event. It's not much.

@Christa10

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What town where in in st the time of the hurricane?

@BLKMGK4

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@@mikewithers299 Folks in Florida often park cars up against the doors to help support them. Outside it's a wind block but gets hammered, inside it's a brace. Crazy stuff!

Living in Kansas City MO, I'm much more familiar with tornadoes than hurricanes. You mentioned during your video about being hit from flying debris. I was surprised by two things, 1. that you were standing out there during the storm and 2. that I didn't see a bunch of flying debris. After tornadoes come through here, we always see pics on the news of 2x4 boards that pierced outer walls of homes and trees that were shred to pieces. Surprised that your palm trees were hanging in there.

@SeanBZA

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Palm trees are almost hurricane proof, they flex a whole lot. None of them went down in the last massive storm, though hundreds of other trees were blown over.

@zachg9065

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KC native here as well

@monono954

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Building codes in FL are far more strict than they are in the Midwest, as such, in newer developments, you don't typically see much debris as the houses aren't being ripped apart.

@Carrik-y4m

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Its also the difference in wind speed. If you line up hurricane categories with tornado categories, almost all hurricanes have top wind speeds in line with F1 and F2 tornadoes. You can’t compare them exactly, of course, but if you look just at how fast either one could chuck a 2x4 at you it works.

@dereksmith1803

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@@Carrik-y4m 👍

Been in Florida since ‘75 and experienced 4 hurricanes. Charlie was bad and moved much faster than the other. Ian moved across Florida so slowly it did more damage than the others. Charlie had an eye which gave us some breathing space, Ian’s eye collapsed on itself so no eye, just constant winds!! Thanking God for his protection‼️

It was fantastic to see your radar imagery. I've been in an information blackout since 9 am on the day of the storm. On the north side of the Caloosahatchee River we were in the the eyewall for hours. Our docile creek became a raging torrent with white caps and sent 6 inches of filthy water flowing through the house. Everyone is safe right here but clean up is intense, we were the lucky ones. So many people are homeless, living in tents or old motor homes that look moldy and unsafe, but what are the choices? Homes are gone, so many have lost all their possessions and don't have a bed to sleep in tonight or a place to bathe. This was just a monster of a storm.

As a kid in 1976, I lived thru hurricane Bell (cat 1) that went up the Atlantic coastline. I live in Atlantic City and was stupid enough to go out in the middle of the storm and walk onto the Boardwalk. I was wearing a parka but could feel the rain like needles on my body. The storm surge had crossed the beach and was below the Boardwalk. As the waves crashed, I could feel the Boardwalk rise and fall... Yeah, that was really dumb. I was also here for Sandy... Flooded 90% of the City... some area chest-high. These storms are scary-awesome !

@larrybe2900

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I go back to Agnes in 1972. Where I was it was a major rain event with flooding and roads washed out. Covered bridges washed away. It is sobering to see the foot thick road beds just moved like it was a toy. The sheets of rain constantly hour upon hour without any harsh wind left one in awe of Mother Nature.

Excellent job on this! Hurricane vids tend to be so over edited that you can't get a good sense of the storm. Yours is the best hurricane video I have EVER seen. I got a real sense of what it was like! The timeline along with it added greatly to my understanding of the whole thing in your area. I've never experienced a hurricane, this video is enough for me!

Hi Josh, I live on Long Island, NY. We have had hurricanes, ice storms, Superstorm Sandy 10 years ago, Hurricane Ida last year, even a few tornadoes. Thankfully my exact area is central in eastern Queens County and did not flood but a lot of people drowned in basement apartments last year from Hurricane Ida. The south shore had been devastated by Superstorm Sandy and is still rebuilding 10 years on. About 7 years ago, a whole large boulevard near my home was stripped of it's trees by a microblast.

@jamesbehrje4279

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I remeber being in hurricane Gloria as a kid. Everyone's basements had floating washing machines and dryers in them. Lol!!! good times.

One thing that could be interesting to look at is if code improvements contributed to the survival of some structures versus others.

Hi Josh. This was absolutely riveting. Heck, all your videos are super interesting. I live in Arizona and it was amazing to see the wind picking up water off the surface of the lake starting at 3pm like it does the dirt here in our dust storms, and of course getting much much worse. Wow, just wow! I'm so glad you and your family are ok.

@BuildingIntegrity

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Thanks Tim!

@Backtrap1943

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Why do americans build houses out of wood despite the fact they get hit every year almost by a devastating cat 4 storm? Are you guys as daft as we (EU) think you are? WHY oh WHY?!

@marthasimons7940

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@@BuildingIntegrity Josh, thanks for the video. I laughed when your wife said, " Enough already." My husband and I started a few whiskey shots at 6pm and just let off tension yelling at the Ian, saying, " Enough already.", among other things. I went thru Hurricane Belle July 1976 in Revere Beach Massachusetts while visiting family. In Florida, went thru Elena in Tampa, and Andrew, Charlie, Wilma, Irma and Ian. For Ian we hunkered down in our old CB house in Bonita Springs at one of the highest elevations in town. Even though we are 2.5 miles inland, during the hurricane storm surge, water came up from the Imperial River two blocks from our house. We had built a loft with ladder over our kitchen this past summer, just in case of storm surge. After losing our news source,we were texting out of state friends who could figure how bad the storm surge was going to hit in the elevations around Bonita. We lucked out but Bonita Springs got hit hard by the surge. Not much about it on the news but we flooded 3+ miles inland along our river and creeks. Devastating.

Glad you are all OK. We evacuated and were largely fine, but coming home took us through some heavily affected areas. Very scary not knowing what you're coming home to and seeing water coming over I-75. We saw people on horseback trying to get out because the water kept rising even days later. I heard they closed the interstate just hours after we passed through. The damage is just awful. Seeing the washed out causeway on the news was insane. Really glad you're making this series . Thanks and best wishes!

Fascinating. You did so well to hold that door and let it move as needed while seeing the storm the other side. I was scared just watching those few minutes of it. Be interesting to hear if you are strengthening it now or any home damage or improvements regarding the hurricane you are planning.

@bbgun061

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He really ought to have put plywood on the door...

@elainebradley8213

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We were worried about the glass shattering and slashing his throat. Of course due to the intro we knew he survived, but it was scary.

@lonelylantern9135

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@@elainebradley8213 i would be more worried about harm occurring to his eyes.

Long time no see. Southeast Louisiana here, so I have some pretty good context.

Looking forward to this series Josh. You always teach us the other side of the story that most don't. Glad you and your family made it through this ok.

Ho-leee crap! That was scary amazing! I can't believe you held that door all that time. Also can't believe you kept going outside as much as you did. Good thing palm trees are "built" for this kind of weather or thete would be trees in all those homes. Glad you & yours came out OK. Amazing!

@stevendelizasoain9237

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You are safe on the leeward side of the home as long as it survives the storm.

incredible documentation, Josh..thanks for sharing this. Been following you since the Surfside collapse. Im a retired building superintendent and ive personally been through two major hurricanes and several minor hurricanes and tropical storms with massive flooding impacts. I went through hurricane David and Frederick in Ft. Lauderdale 40+ years ago, both in the same season. I lived several miles inland so did not experience much more than downed trees and power lines, a few broken windows, etc. David was a massive storm the size of Ian but probably only a cat 3, Frederick I believe was a cat 2 storm. I was 10 years old in 1972 when tropical storm Agnes' flood waters decimated many parts of Pennsylvania. we lived in Harrisburg and experienced massive flooding, losing most everything we owned. Just thought Id share some personal experience. In 1976 I lived on a sailboat in Annapolis, Md. and we were in the outer bands of Hurricane Bell while tied to our slip. The storm surge was significant and because many boat owners had not let out enough line, we saw many boats and yachts get pulled under during the storm surge. That was an interesting night I'll never forget but again, outer band winds so we probably only experienced 70 to 80 mph winds that night. thanks again.

Josh, toilet flushes spin in the direction that the internal jets are pointed. Coriolis has no effect at all on such a small scale.

@MarkSummersCAD

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yes, no affect until you consider VERY large areas of water...

@BuildingIntegrity

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Ah yes, I seem to have fallen for an old common myth. Funny because I actually knew this at one point. The Coriolis Effect does influence hurricane spin though.

@rhondadodds4357

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I think you may have been meaning to say how a bath tub drains in the different hemispheres.

@networkedperson

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@@rhondadodds4357 a bath tub might not be large enough? However if we consider for example the IQ of the USA, then for sure that's large enough, going down the drain...

@justmousinaround

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Until you’re trying to hit a target a mile or more away, Coriolis has no discernible affect in our lives. Except for hurricanes, they have big effects

I'm sorry for what you guys are going through right now and wish you the best. Thanks for putting this out. I'm not a structural engineer but your experience and professional mindset show through in every video. When it comes to disasters I think outreach like this is especially helpful.

Just gonna say ...I am surprised those roof tiles werent flying away like a deck of cards.

Amazing video! Followed the news coverage of Ian almost exclusively through YT news sources which had various sound bites and brief clips. Really looking forward to your professional insights and up-close-and-personal commentary given your expertise. Experienced three tornadoes while living in MN. With the first, extremely hot, clear blue skies turned completely black, heard the roar of 'the train.' Once over, no loss of life or major property damage. Temps dropped so dramatically the several inches of hail stuck around and everything was covered with shredded foliage, downed tree limbs, etc. During the third we lived in large condo complex in bowl-shaped valley. No issues with seasonal rain or snow run-off. But the twister dumped SO much rain so quickly all underground parking, subterranean boiler rooms, racquetball courts, swimming pools, etc were under many feet of dirty and oily water. Hundreds of cars were lost, took quite some time to repair the damage. Unrelated to this video but after the recent attack on Crimea bridge. someone posted images noting issues of spalling, shear, etc. Thanks to your in-depth analysis of the condo collapse, had a grasp on what they were attempting to point out.

I’m looking forward to the other videos in this series. After a disaster, everybody just wants to clean up the mess and get on with life. But hopefully, with videos like yours, we can take the opportunity to learn from this tragedy, because this will certainly not be the last hurricane.

Oh my! At times you could even see the water's edge closest to your residence. So glad you made it. Thanks for this riveting video.

Good to have you back Josh, and happy to hear your home and family is OK. I went through horrendous flooding in Pennsylvania in 1972 during Hurricane Agnes. My entire hometown flooded, washing away several bridges, the high school, and God knows how many homes 🏡 and businesses. It was very frightening

Glad you and the fam are well, Josh. Powerful video!

Hi Josh. Glad to see you back but not glad about what you are reporting about! This was a horrible hurricane and am glad you survived it! I experienced hurricanes in Williamsburg, VA but not to the magnitude of living close to the ocean. I now live in Ohio and we have to deal with tornadoes. Memorial Day 2019 was a horrible day for this area...17 tornadoes (I think) came through and the closest one was about 3 miles as the crow flies! So glad I have a basement! I will be looking forward to your future videos. Again, so happy you and your family are okay.

I'm 62 years old and lived my whole life in southeast Louisiana. I was a police officer for thirty-five years. I was in every hurricane that hit southeast Louisiana or Mississippi (depending on it's size). My wife panics and cannot understand why I'm calm and collected. The only time I became nervous was when I bought houses and had to worry about the property damage. But, yes. Florida gets it worse.

Good to see you again!

@BuildingIntegrity

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Thanks for hanging in there!

My parents rode out Ian in Cape Coral and after getting a new roof in August, got away with a few cracked tiles that were repair-able (some water came in but after roofer inspected it they think rain blew in the attic vents) and tears in the lanai screen. So many houses around them have heavily damaged roofs, and the roads are still littered with small chunks of roofing tiles. Your video is the best I've seen that shows what they actually sat through

I live on the east coast of Florida. In 2004 we were hit with 2 hurricanes, Francis and Jeanne. They hit the same area two weeks apart. We had no electric of 6 days and 5 days after each storm. My roof was damaged but did not leak. The next year we had Wilma in October, no electric for 5 days. Thankfully we had a generator and plenty of gas and oil. Gas cans and oil are impossible to get after the storm. I live 6 miles from the Atlantic Ocean. Living in Florida you have to prepare to deal with hurricanes. Thank you for the video sir.

My word...my heart was pounding during that storm coverage and I'm safe at home in Ohio weeks later. I've never seen footage like that. It's the 3 1/2 hour mark and I can't imagine what the houses are going to look like at the end of the lake where all that water was being pushed to. Looking forward to learing more from you. Your experience is so interesting to me. Thank you for these videos.

@crfflashforward

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Well I'm from Ohio and moved to Fort Myers 18 years ago. I live on the Caloosahatche River and I am 20 miles upstream and we had 11' of storm surge. Our elevation is 7' and my neighbors had 2 to 4' in our houses. We only had 2' so we were lucky. Trust me when I say that I'd risk ice, snow, sleet, hail or a Tornado in Ohio rather than go thru this again.

I was still a kid when the tornadoes of 2011 hit the South. Growing up in the mountains of East Tennessee, I got rather lucky in that the tornadoes didn't hit my hometown. However, my area itself was still hit, and an EF2 caused 2 fatalities in/near Mountain City. My dad ended up working as a translator of sorts for the TEMA/FEMA agents that went to the area to meet with the locals. I remember riding with him in a state-owned car, and seeing all the trees ripped from the ground or bent sideways. We even had a flat tire by the end of the trip due to broken porcelain in the road. It's insane what mother nature can do when she's angry.

I was born and raised in the Naples area and went through Charlie, Wilma and Irma without issues. Mind you, Irma's highest wind speed of 142mph was recorded a block away from my home and we didnt even lose a shingle. But recently, my parents and brother went through Ian which was the worst one we had yet. Constant onshore winds along with the high tide coming in put 2 feet of flooding in the house and 10 months later, the house is still unlivable. The insurance and contracting has taken forever. We still dont have flooring and electrical done. Insurance/mortgage rates are nearly tripling and I don't know how my parents will continue to afford living there.

Hi Josh, riveting is an understatement. Watching you hold those sliding glass doors was especially traumatic as I have sliders that are 30 years old and very flimsy. We sometimes have hectic electric storms here in Joburg, South Africa and I have watched my sliders bowing ... it is terrifying to watch. I live on the top of a small cliff and get the full brunt of storm winds. You must have been exhausted after those 5 hours! I look forward to this series.

I lived in Tampa until I was 25, then moved to Ft. Myers for 22 years. When I was about 5, my mother was a nurse at Tampa General Hospital on Davis Island. There was only a low bridge going to the island. A hurricane pushed enough water into Tampa Bay that both ends of the only bridge connecting the island to the mainland was flooded. National Guard vehicles took hospital employees and patients over the flooded areas. In the late 1920s or early-mid 1930s, my uncle helped doing rescue and recovery after a hurricane flooded Lake Okeechobee in south Florida and broke levees emptying floodwaters into the area surrounding the lake and into the Everglades. During recovery, the rescuers formed a line abreast and walked forward arm’s width apart. If bubbles formed where someone stepped, there was possibly a body there.

I have lived in Key West, Miami, Galveston, and Houston; I've experienced the power of hurricanes. Two years ago I visited SW Florida, it had been decades since my last visit. I was amazed at the amount of growth in the area. Inlets and channels that I remembered were now built up as residential areas. I look forward to more of your "teaching approach" to structural integrity.

Josh this was an intense storm. It was hard just listening to that wind hit. Back when Fran hit it was at night and we lost power at 1203 a little after midnight. I still had cable up to that point. I fell asleep in my easy chair and woke up about 0200 hours. I didn't think anything about it so I went upstairs got into bed and went to sleep. At 0030 am the backside of the Hurricane hit. I slept right through it but my ex-wife heard it for about an hour. I was working for RadioShack at the time and managing a Store in North Raleigh. I got to work at 10am but there was no power. I did about 6k worth of business that day. I had to manually write tickets because of no power. There were only two stores in the district that opened that day. Mine and another store up the road from me about 4 miles. I sold almost 5K worth of batteries. I got home about 5pm because the mayor of Raleigh had a 1800 hours curfew. When I left at 0930 am to drive to work everything was off. When I got home at 1700 hours everything had been restored.

Thank you Josh. Very glad to know you are ok.

Dadgum! First of all, glad you and yours are ok. Second, thank you. There’s a world of difference between the talking heads blatting about the storm and you doing a play by play call out of what, where, and how the storm is acting.

@BuildingIntegrity

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Glad you enjoyed!

Josh: First, glad you and your family are safe. To answer your question, we were in Hurricane Wilma in 2005. Lost our seasonal manufactured home in Deerfield Beach. We did not stay in the home during the hurricane ( no one should) but were able to stay in a condo during the storm.

@stevendelizasoain9237

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Boca Raton and Deerfield Beach got the worst of Wilma. I remember the boat storage facility on federal highway that collapsed during Wilma. I was living in Boca Raton at the time. Fought for my insurance claim for 5 years.

I was in the path of Fran. Did not receive a lot of damage because the neighborhood I was in a lot of the electrical lines were underground. But a lot of the city of Raleigh was affected. I was in directly affected by Floyd. A community that I used to live in when through a tremendous loss of property. My church in2005 helped rebuild houses after Hurricane Katerina. In 1988 I was living in Rocky Mount NC and a Tornado hit Raleigh. It tore up a friends house and I spent a few days helping them get things settled. It landed in the County I was living in but it did not affect where I was living.

My son is US Navy and went out with a destroyer while his ship was dry docked. They were in a port when a gurricane predicted to not go up past Virginia,, kept coming. They were on liberty in Nova Scotia and had to be called ba k to ship. He said once they got going, they hit the outer bands of the srorm. He said it was the wildwst wet coaster he ever was on. He said the fun part was having to go on deck to fix the lights that faled, because he.clippwd gimself to the.rails and said he laughed the whole time... i can believe this. Met his C.O during a family cruise on his ship, and they asked was he always a handful..i told him " i did my cntract, he is yours now sir". My son, not on duty will wear onesie pajamas with the.feet in them... with kitties on it. But he can rewire anything with a volt or amp

In your Fort Myers Beach drone video, I could see what's left, about half, of the home of an older couple I know. Fortunately, they evacuated but lost everything. So very heartbreaking, especially for those who didn't (or weren't able to) evacuate and lost their lives. May God bless the people of Fort Myers, Cape Coral, Sanibel, Captive, Pine Island and others as they rebuild.

Hurricane Michael - some folks are still struggling to rebuild their lives. The news reports it for a few weeks. The authorities pay attention a few years. For many of those who were hit the worst, without help it will last for the rest of their lives (which will be shorter and harder due to the poverty and stress that is a direct result). We must all take care to remember those affected by earthquake, fire, flood, storm, or any other disasters because united we stand, divided we fall.

Storm surge is no joke. It's in addition to the tide and the waves. Not only will it take a structure down to it's foundation, it can even strip the asphalt off the ground.

I’ve drove through through 2003 derecho that hit Central Ohio. My car was a little harder to keep going straight but didn’t think much of it. Even saw a whirlwind spin up at the Groveport rec center. Picked my kids from a friend’s house and they said their power had just gone out. We visit for a few minutes before I travel back down the same roads I had been on about 15 minutes beforehand. The first thing I found was a tree had blown down on half of the road. Then as I was traveling through Groveport, I saw one of their street lamps had pulled right out of the concrete. When I got home, we didn’t have any power either. All of the nearby restaurants were on the same part of the grid that I was on so they were closed. Our favorite Chinese had power so we ate there. Thier phone was ringing off the hook. I’ve never this

Cyclone theory. Waterflow in toilets has nothing to do with Coriolis effect. Most of the reason the air rises over warm water is because water vapour is much less dense than dry air, it is not the slight difference in temperature. As air rises it has to be replaced by other air which is drawn in from surrounding areas. It is this converging movement which displays the Coriolis effect, leading to rotation. Once the moist air condences at altitude and produces rain, it becomes denser and tends to fall back down, leading to a self-perpetuating cycle driven by the transfer of energy from surface towards the top of the storm cell.

In Maine, we were hit by Hurricane Bob about 25 years ago. I think we had 15” of rain.

Hurricane Sandy on the barrier island of Ocean City of NJ. It was my summer home at the time - I live here full time now- and I managed our condo community. I wanted to stay during the storm as i figured i had access to most of the condos so i knew i could find food and water if things got really bad. My wife finally convinced me to leave and go back to the suburbs of Philly. I came back the next morning and was able to get past the police blockade of the island by dropping some names. Our condo community was built just high enough that water didn't enter the crawlspaces. 10 years later many of the older houses on the island have been knocked down and rebuilt with the first floor living about 10 ft. above grade. Other older homes have been raised. People still want to live by the water. Humans adapt. Waiting for the next big one.

Glad you are safe, would like to see how to better build a home to withstand something like this. We see all the time 1) build house 2) hurricane hits and flattens house 3) rebuild house again same way to minimum code 4) repeat goto #2 How could better building integrity, built a better more weather resistant house? Keep up the good work sir, and hope things get a bit back to normal for you.

I’ve been through a 6.9 earthquake and I’ve been through Hurricane Sandy (2 hours drive inland from where it hit). The earthquake was far worse in damage as I was 5 miles away from the epicenter. Life really stopped after the earthquake. We were too busy cleaning up our apartment, trying to find the cat, and checking for structural cracks (I was an assistant for five seismic engineers at the time). It didn’t even occur to me that I was supposed to be at work until my secretary called to see if I was ok. When I’m asked to compare them I would go with an earthquake any day. The anticipation and duration is an ass kicker for me when it comes to hurricanes. I’d rather sustain the quick devastation of an earthquake with lingering aftershocks. That aside, I’m glad you can explain this great science to all of us and I’m glad you made it through Ian. Thank you!

Wow- that’s amazing, scary, thanks. Living here in Queensland Australia, we also have horrific cyclones as we call them here (Southern hemisphere so clockwise rotation) , and ironically the same problem with massive “immigration” from other states and a massive housing and rental shortage. The problems were only compounded by terrible floods in February, and now with La Niña, serious risks of more flooding over our coming Summer. “We live in interesting times”. Feel free to substitute “scary” for interesting.

Hurricane Carol, NYC 1955. There was a lot of flooding that year. We lost the top of our Sycamore tree which was able to regrow with five new leaders that made an excellent tree fort, for years we could sit up there and throw button balls down on the girls who passed by. Turns out that Winsted CT was flooded that year too, today there are only businesses on the north side of the road.

I grew up in Houston in the ninetys and early aughts. I cannot off the top of my head say how many hurricanes I lived through, but my only thoughts when you switched to the footage of holding that glass door were along the lines of "Where are your shoring timbers?!". We also had the occasional tornado, so I guess the disaster preparedness had extra reason to be well trained compared to y'all over in Florida, but a glass door like that should properly secured in any major wind storm.

Living in North Fort Myers I went through this with you brother. I didn't take much video. We live in a converted 2 story pole barn and were very busy just trying to hold the place togeather. Several sheets of metal roofing ripped off, a lot of vinyl siding, and numerous trees down and damaged on our 2&1/2 acres. Thankfully the weather after the storm was cool and dry and I was able to retrieve our roofing and get the attic dried out (no deck under the metal, just 2X4 perlins) and the damaged pieces re-attached and patched. It ain't pretty but it's dried in. We are very thankful that we had as little damage as we did and no flooding. Many lost everything. Great video, Thanks. I look forward to seeing he rest of your series on the aftermath of Hurricane Ian.

I went thru hurricane ike that hit galveston texas at i think it was a cat. 4 when it made landfall. Ian and ike were familiar in my mind on the storm surge. When ime hit galveston the tidal surge in some places was 18 feet. It pretty much desimated any structure under 18 feet off the ground. The first videos you could see where it just came in and washed away any structure under 16 and forced all the debris about 15 miles north in a little town of te peninsula. It was very devastating to me and my family because just before that storm hit we had sold our weekend home there and it along with 100's even maybe a 1000's homes were washed away too. God bless all the folks effected by that hurricane. I know how it feels too. Im 52 and i have been thru 4 or 5 really bad ones myself

I've personally been affected by basement flooding twice. In Edmonton, AB, a thunderstorm came through in 2004 and basically parked over the west end of the city for a while. Snow plows were required to move the 2 feet of hail that accumulated in some areas. In my townhouse, my basement had sewage backup - almost entirely fresh water due to the sheer volumes of water involved. Fortunately I was covered for sewage backup and my insurance covered the repairs to my house, appliances and belongings. And then last winter, in Abbotsford, BC, an atmospheric river came through, and I had basement flooding again. We had two months of rain in a couple of days. The ground became saturated and due to high hydrostatic pressures, water made its way into my basement. We learned that the perimeter drains around the outside of the house were either not installed properly in the first place, or were of a concrete type of pipe that rotted away over 60 years. We had it all replaced with a weeping tile system, with separate pipes for the downspouts to move the water away from the house. The most surprising thing about this was that I live on the hill with pretty good drainage generally, so it was quite the surprise to have so much water in the house. Insurance covered the repairs to the interior, but we were on the hook to replace the drainage as our insurance wouldn't pay to prevent the problem happening again.

My sympathy to those still suffering after this hurricane. No power or internet, it must be awful, I hope you have gas-heated water at least. Staying clean is tough without that and you must have piles of laundry, too. I have never gone more than a week without power, after one of our big Pacific storms, that was quite enough for me. It was very cold, so we brought in a propane heater, which is extremely dangerous, but we worried about our two elder cats and dog getting too chilled. The cats did what they always did, piled in bed with us when we were home, but not our 130 lb. dog, who wouldn’t stop kicking!

Human muscle isn't always the best thing to do. It's kinda dangerous. My dad tried to hold onto a metal shed that was situated on the back wall of my house that was about to blow into the powerlines during Wilma and the shed off over the house. Landed across the street in my neighborhood. If that glass gave way you'd be cut to pieces.

Thank Josh. I also was involved in Tornado and storm investigations and research during my career at CSIR's Structural Engineering division. Better construction practises cost more but on the long run, certainly pays. I constructed my own houses, very time consuming because of being over engineered. Fortunately they passed the test of time (up to now). Love from S Africa.

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It’s very different when you’re building for *your* family. Nothing is too over-engineered!

Glad you and your family are OK. We all love the work you do.

I went through Hurricane Camille - Category 5 (205 MPH) - in Biloxi,MS in August 1969 - Ships were floated onto Route 90 and had to be torched. Oil tanks likewise were floated miles from the storm surge. Steel I-beams were twisted. I was in a blockhouse at Keesler AFB during the night. The storm surge flooded a vast area. Gambling finally paid for the rebuilding

A toilet does not spin a specific way do to the Coriolis affect. The water jets in the toilet determine how it spins. A draining sink or bathtub that starts to create a funnel will spin do to the Coriolis affect though. I really hope I spelled that right.

Yeah, I stayed.... Now, I moved here 3 years ago, so I know nothing.... Heh heh heh! I was hoping to see your footage of the eye.... Or did you go somewhere else, and it didn't happen??? The eye went right over me... It wasn't like in the movies, you couldn't see "a wall" or anything... But it was dead calm, raining moderately, and was extremely spooky.... I was out in the garage for awhile, my door was doing the same thing... I stood on the side like you did, and I couldn't see to the other side, the door was bowed in so much.... That looked a little scary, holding that door. Lucky you were there... My roof was leaking pretty bad in "round 2", after the eye... that was kind of the worst, I thought... But luckily I was here, I could get beach towels & buckets down, and pig mats, and I think that saved me a lot of interior damage.... My house needs work, but it could have been so much worse... So much. Someone at the gym I go to, lives in my subdivision, and her ceiling got so soaked it caved in, and now they have gutted out all the wallboard in her house... Really a disaster. I almost feel like I wanna do a video series on preparing. HOW to bug out. Or if you stay, what works & what doesn't. For example, a cheap no-name headlamp, became my best friend. Power is out. Shutters are on your house. It's pitch dark. You're going to need to go to the rest room. Even after you take the shutters off, it's still pitch dark in your rest room. I daresay, it's also easier to do business in the rest room, with BOTH hands free, so a headlamp is really ideal.... Meanwhile, some very expensive big name tactical flashlights I had died VERY quickly, and then I found out their little 21700 battery is NOT rechargeable in a different charger, it's "proprietary" somehow.... HUGE disappointment, to say the least. So, whatever you think you're going to rely on, TEST IT. Test test test. Just because it's a big brand and cost a lot, doesn't mean it'll work.... 20-30 minutes, on medium brightness, the light is dead.... That would be the shortest military op in military special ops history.... Seriously. Yep! We were back on base in 20 minutes! Hahah! How do you sell that to tactical operators??? Kind of unbelievable. In the aftermath, I was the little neighborhood generator repair tech. (sort of). People can't get them started. People don't know how to hook it up. They don't remember what the guy said, or how to flip the switches in your breaker panel. People's gas has gone bad. There is no power, there is no gas, you're s.o.l. Now, I am going to get a generator, and the plug on the house, and the whole deal. You at least need to run your refrigerator, stove, microwave, and a couple of lights. At least. Even just psychologically, if you can charge your phone, read a book under a light, keep some cold water & food in a fridge.... Tremendously helpful for your morale.... My neighbor, I mean, god bless him, but he was all set to go to Home Depot & buy another generator... he had the switches wrong.... So, familiarize yourself. Type up the instructions, laminate them, stick them to the wall right next to the panel... The hurricane hits, and you are a little panicked, a little rattled, you are out of your comfort zone.... Now it's all confusing, and nothing is working.... Take pictures with your phone, of the switches to throw, step 1, step 2... Print them out, stick them on the wall right next to the panel. Stuff like that. Get familiar with your survival plan, your generator, whatever it is you think you're going to rely on... Try it, test it, master it, understand it... Write it all down, and not in a file in a box somewhere, where you can't find it. Make out your whole deal, laminate it all, and hang it on a carabiner right next to the power panel. And get a couple headlamps. Yeah, you will look like a nerd, but you can see where you are going, and you won't fall down and crack your skull....

Born and raised in south Louisiana so I totally get what you went thru. Glad you and yours made it out un scathed. Be well and God speed to a quick rebuild.

It was CRAZY. We had the eyewall for what seemed like an eternity. We lost all communication very early on so we had no idea where we were in the storm. I didn’t have a battery radio so we were just literally in the dark on how much longer our house was going to take the beating . I was too terrified to open a door and the whole house was boarded up so it was pitch dark inside with no electricity. When the winds died down a little bit ( it was still very high howling wind but when the house stopped shaking) I still wouldnt open the door until the next morning . I was just so happy to be alive !! That footage of you holding the door is terrifying . I am glad you all are alive . Emotions are all over the place . Fear, gratitude , sadness and heartbreak as was as elation for making it through . My heart goes out to everyone affected by this ugly storm

This was great documentation of the storm. Thank God you have a sturdy home. I couldn't believe it could get worse but you were right. I'm a Tennessee hurricane virgin who has never experienced one. We are experiencing a housing shortage in SE Tn. also. The west is moving back east, water is the new gold. Housing prices have more than doubled and in some cases tripled for prime property. Local young couples don't have a chance. Makes ya glad to be gettin old.

Ian was my first hurricane. People who've lived here over 60 years said that this is the worst hurricane they've ever experienced. I live in Port Orange, 10 miles south of Daytona Beach, 100 ft from the Florida intracoastal. People have no idea how hard my area was hit, too. We had massive flooding and devastating beach erosion. Two weeks after the hurricane, flooding was just starting to effect inland areas in Seminole County, as the inland flood waters seek a place to equalize. It's still flooding in Sanford. The hurricane eye stalled just south my house. I has strong winds for 24 HOURS! Streets turned into raging rivers as we got over 30 inches of rain. Almost all of this area isn't considered a flood zone, so few homes had flood insurance. I dropped mine this year because JUST the flood premium went from $150 a year to $1,500 a year in a three year period for a house that I absolutely know never flooded since it was built in 1979. This time, the water rose to within three feet of my door. I was lucky because my house is built five feet above sea level. What bothers me is how the "official" story has been so underreported here. Why? At first, we were told we received 11 inches of rain. BS. Neighbors' weather stations' early reports showed 24 inches of rain coming down sideways! Eventually, the news admitted to 31 inches in areas. They also reported that this was "just" a tropical storm. Again, BS. Winds in New Smyrna Beach reached 96 mph...and the wind lasted about 24 hours! My house is a 1,400 ft sq, concrete block ranch. It's hard to describe in words, but imagine being swallowed by a giant, as the winds engulfed my house. The hurricane made a "breathing" oscillating sound, like a "panting" groan, as the wood rafters in my attic creaked incessantly. My windows were completely covered with aluminum panels, so my internal "sensory overload circuit breaker" popped. All alone, inside the belly of the beast, the right side of my brain was screaming, Why did I move here three years ago!!????!! My toilets stopped flushing 20 hours into the hurricane. The toilet bowl water began rippling. I didn't understand how Florida sewers worked. I do now! The electrical powered, area sewage stations flooded in neighborhoods. Some homes in South Daytona got two feet of sewage water backup inside their homes. Days later, inland neighborhoods had cars still floating in the streets. The water had nowhere to go. Retention ponds were overflowing. The ground was saturated. The intracoastal water turned ink black. We've been "told" the reason the hurricane stalled over us was because there was a cold front north of us that prevented the hurricane from continuing on its eventual path. Another reason for the historic and horrific flooding was because we were experiencing our normal, seasonal high tide. So, those of us on the intracoastal got hit much harder because the sea levels were overflowing the banks. The morning after the hurricane, once I knew that my AC unit was the only damage my house sustained, I logged onto Zillow and looked for condo listings in Kona, Hawaii. I briefly lived there 25 years ago and I had planned to retire there, but the Kilauea volcano reawoke when I started shopping there four years ago. I am allergic to the sulfur emitted from the volcano, but after surviving Hurricane Ian, an active volcano, asthma attacks and an occasionally tsunami warning sounds like a better retired life than wondering if the next hurricane to hit me will be worse than Hurricane Ian.

Hurricane Michael leveled our area. We're talking 65' pine trees snapped like toothpicks or twisted 180 degrees (think 3 ft in diameter splintered at ground level), brick buildings reduced to rubble 3 miles inland, an entire multi-story office building blown out and gutted leaving only a steel skeleton and bare concrete. Pump number signs made of 20 ga steel at one of the local gas stations were folded back ~20 degrees. I calculated local winds of at least 155 mph to do that and our area was on the "weak" side of the storm. Over half of the fishing fleet was destroyed, the main marina condemned and permanently closed, and the civic center closed. Boats were piled 4 deep and concrete moorings had been ripped apart. A friend's roof was literally ripped off of their house and thrown into the neighbor's house. The city looked like a bulldozer rolled over it. An entire freight train was tipped off the tracks. The area still hasn't recovered, a lot of folks still haven't fully repaired their houses, at least a fifth of the locals just left and never returned. The insurance companies pretty much shafted everyone, then pulled out of the area leaving all current owners high and dry. We've had to go with 3rd -ate insurance because it's all that's available. Estimated damages in the area exceeded $5 billion and the local economy got smashed. A lot of folks lost their shirts and no assistance was provided after the initial rescue crews. We literally had to come in with chainsaws when we returned just to cut our way back to the house. Streets weren't cleared sufficiently by crews for 6 weeks and utilities were out for 3-6 weeks in some areas. Power lines sufficiently repaired for nearly 6 months in the hardest hit areas. We still have huge number of trees that lean over 20-30 degrees. Thank you for covering what's happening in your area. It's good to see a first-hand perspective of what these storms do. Needless to say, it's traumatic.

I'm litterally about 2 miles from where you were at. We had the EXACT same thoughts you were saying. "Wow, this is the worse part." "Whoa, now THAT was the worst" "Nope, now THAT was the worst!" "When is the eye coming??" "We must be on the eye wall" "When's the eye coming??" "Jeez, the eye must have just skirted us!" "Well, when is this gonna die down". "OK, seriously, when is this ending!" "Ope, it let up....oh, nevermind" And we were holding our patio door too!! Anyway, hope you didn't get too much damage. I'm in a concrete block Mackle house, and we faired pretty well. If you're bored, and wanna check out the damage, shoot me a message. Would be honored to give ya a tour.

Glad you're okay Josh Porter thank you for your content

Great to see you, Josh!

I was affected by the Midwest Flood of 1993. I was 7 years old, so I don't actually remember much. We were fortunate enough to live on high ground so our house wasn't affected, but when the Des Moines Water Works Park went under water, things got a bit difficult. We were fortunate enough to have one of Dad's cousins living in Altoona who let us come over to take baths and fill up gallon jugs of water. A friend of mine remembers having to take showers in the back of a semi. Dad's office downtown flooded, so my parents' bedroom was full of papers and files from his office. I also remember getting scolded for trying to watch the news - Mom was really mad about that for some reason. And I remember seeing a little clubhouse along I-80 having only one brick below the roof visible above the water. That's basically the extent of my memories of the event. But I've also been through a ton of tornado warnings and I don't even know how many times I've taken shelter for tornadoes. Never been hit by one tho.

I experienced the 1967 (?) Platte river flood through Central Denver. The city was cut in half and my dad used his ski boat to ferry people across and I remember going down there later and seeing the water level marks way up on old buildings.

I live just north of San Francisco and have experienced many earthquakes, including Loma Prieta, wildfires and minor floods, my property is adjacent to a tidal creek. I was on the bus in the North Beach district, commuting home from SF, when Loma Prieta hit in 1989. Our bus got through the city fairly well, although all traffic lights were out on Lombard Street, adjacent to the heavily damaged Marina District. We crossed the Golden Gate Bridge about ten minutes after the quake, it wasn’t yet closed for inspection, we were all holding our breath, even holding hands with passengers we didn’t know. All along Highway 101, people were pulling their cars onto the shoulders and checking their tires, many didn’t realize it was the earthquake or aftershocks they were feeling when their cars swayed wildly. When I got home, I couldn’t find my cat anywhere. Finally she turned up in the attic crawl space, which has tiny entrance doors that are latched, one of them must have swung open for her to get in, then swing closed again. I felt terrible, she was very, very traumatized. Over the next few weeks, every aftershock sent her jumping right into my lap, poor baby. We had some damage to our old home, which shakes like crazy even in small quakes, like yesterday’s 5.1, which was moderate, but our home is about 50 miles from the epicenter near San Jose. As a geologist, I like to feel the different seismic waves passing through, they give me a rough idea of the distance and direction (by the direction the house shakes) to the epicenter. But, I’m terrified my house could collapse, not only is it old and rickety, it’s built on 3-4 feet of fill over Bay Mud, like the Marina district. It did get through with only minor damage and that quake had a magnitude of around 7, I think, that’s a strong quake. Yes, I knew better, but I fell in love with this Victorian cottage and bought in anyway.

live in jensen beach, fl. in 2004, we were hit head on by both frances (cat 2) and jeanne (cat 3) about 3 weeks apart. frances took the roof and there wasn't enough time to get a new one installed before jeanne. at the time, we had wooden boards on the windows... not storm shutters. during the eye of jeanne, we went on the roof to reset the tarp we lost. we didnt have much time in the eye of jeanne, compared to frances, which just sat on top of us. luckily, i lived about 2 miles west of the beach/intracoastal, we didn't get surge/flood damage... but sustained 115mph with 130-140mph gusts does plenty of damage. weird feeling opening your attic and getting a beam of sunlight in your face. we lost power for a couple weeks... they buried all of our powerlines and cable, which was a great long-term investment. glad you guys made it through this one... we were getting 80 mph gusts by me. not really sure if my house now would have withstood a direct hit from ian.

Thank you for doing this series of videos. Have never been anything like this storm. Closest was Easter tornado, that went through Michigan, I think in mid 50's. The destruction was horrific to my young eyes. Huge trees, houses and barns all leveled.

I am so glad you & your family are safe. I watched live storm chaser feeds during the storm and some after plus I've seen some of the rescue video after the storm. I actually saw a building float by - pushed by storm surge (not sure what it was, at the time I thought it was a small house). I've been praying for Florida and everyone impacted by the storm. I started praying days before it hit because I have a LOT of friends & loved ones in the area around when Ian made landfall. God bless & protect you and your family Josh. Thank you for sharing your experience and for your educational videos. You are a true GIFT to your community. 🙏❤

I live in NE Kansas and for context own a house estimated to have been built in the 1910s. I’ve owned it not quite 12 years and in that time have had many tornadoes come close, but until recently never did any damage. I’ve also had many prairie fires, flash floods come very close and a few blizzards that knocked out power etc. In the last year we’ve taken a direct hit from a derecho that caused minor damage, several severe storms that spawned really bad tornadoes in other places, but spared us and one storm that sent an EF3 directly at us that thankfully dissipated just 2-3 houses from us. We’ve been super lucky that we didn’t sustain worse damage from the tornado in June and the severe storm that hit maybe a week later. Our roof, fence, shed and gutters all ended up needing replaced, but it could have been worse. Just a few houses up the street several homes were completely destroyed and given the age of our home I have no doubt that ours wouldn’t have survived a direct hit. The craziest thing about that storm is the predictions and radar didn’t make it seem like we were going to get much of anything. We usually get hit with storms coming from the west or south, but this one popped up maybe an hour north of us then headed straight south before merging with another cell and heading east where it intensified even more and spawned several more tornadoes. I almost didn’t double check the radar that afternoon or head to the basement when the sirens went off. The only reason I did is because I won’t put my pets at risk from my midwestern tornado arrogance that would prefer to sit on the porch and watch as the tornados wiz by.

I was in Key West for every Hurricane and TS from Andrew (Which actually missed us directly) to Wilma which flooded my house. As you know Andrew did considerable damage to Homestead and Fl City, which I saw two days after the event. I never experienced the kind of damage that you guys are living through. My prayers got out to all of you.

The relentless pounding by the wind, feeling your home being buffeted by the gusts for hour upon hour, never being quite sure if the place is going to literally come apart around you. It's a stressful experience. To be honest looking from afar at the strength of Ian compared to what has landed on the Queensland coast of Australia, I expected to see much more destruction. Building standards matter.

Oh man! Glad you're ok. The clips of you in the storm was real rough! Take the time you need and I look forward to your content covering the storm!

Hi Josh, I live on the New Brunswick / Nova Scotia border in Canada. This storm took shingles off my house and I had water inside. My neighbor lost a shed and two trees. Incredible storm! I love your channel and don’t miss an episode. Cheers!

Good to see ya back Josh, hope you and your family are okay. I grew up in the panhandle of Florida, Destin, Ft Walton Beach, Niceville area so I've been through several hurricanes. Eloise, Elana, Opal just to name a few. I am in Alabama now and when Opal arrived up here in my area she was still packing a punch and spawned many tornados in our area here. We have a place at lake Martin and had several large oak trees fall on the house and damaged the roof. Your video footage is amazing, unreal to see how the storm intensifies. Glad that you all are okay. Florida will eventually recover from Ian but it will take many years. Prayers for Florida!!! 🙏

I've been through a few natural disasters, when I was about 8 we lived in Homestead, FL when Hurricane Andrew came through, I remember being woken up (having slept on the floor of my parents bedroom) and told the storm had started, we moved from room to room at different points during the storm over concerns of apparent cracks in the walls, we where weeks without power, we ran off a generator for a LONG LONG time and ultimately we setup a double wide trailer in the backyard while the house house was gutted and rebuilt, I remember playing a game I called "ghost", with all the drywall gone I could slip between the studs of the interior walls so I was "ghosting" through walls (before video game ghosting was a well known thing). Sometime after that but before the 2000's or maybe 2000-2001 we where on vacation in I believe Punta Gorda when a tropical depression/storm hit and we where stuck inside all day that day from the rain. Circa the year 2000 when I was a teenager still living at home we had a massive ice storm (we moved from Florida in the late 90's), the ice caused many tree branches to snap and tore down power lines all over the county, one large branch on our property came down on the power line running from the pole to our house and ripped the whole gooseneck and meter off the wall of the house, it was 2 weeks of running a few hours a day on the generator and surviving off of gas heaters at night till power was even restored to our street out in the middle of nowhere. fast forward to the mid 2000's (04 or 05), I was living out of the back room of the shop my dad was renting for his business when we got a massive rain storm that resulted in the river running through town cresting its banks, the building was elevated about 2 feet above the grade around it, I remember walking out to the shop and seeing water coming through the shop door at like 2 AM, I called my dad, but didn't get through (crappy cell service at the house and no land lines) so I called one of the girls I worked with at the local grocery store and she came and picked me up, but i had to wade through waste deep water to get out to the road with my cellphone and laptop in my arms above my head, spent the night with her family and then the next day began the cleanup process. We've also dealt with tornado's, somewhere between 08' and 15' I was out at work one night and a huge storm passed through, I went to leave and both routes I knew to town where completely blocked by downed trees, luckily ran into some other people that knew a 3rd way and managed to get to town, I fueled up the car in town and I think I went to IHOP for dinner knowing the power would likely be out at the house when I got home, I go to go home and the way in is blocked by downed trees, I turn around and take the alternate way in and it had been blocked by trees but was cut open, later found out an ambulance had been called out and thats why that was cleared, I get home and go to bed, next morning as i'm headed out to "survey the damage" a house less then 2,000 feet from my house had had over 75% of it's roof completely torn off, no framing or anything left and a few miles up the main road a big horse barn had been totally LEVELED and there was tons of tree damage everywhere.

Outstanding job! Factual and well-planned documentation. You should be governor! Anyone thinking of relocating to Florida should be aware that Homeowner's Insurance and Flood Insurance rates are increasing DRAMATICALLY. Forget saving money on property taxes and income tax, the savings are eaten up by insurance premiums.

Thanks for sharing the montage it gave me a truer feeling of what a beast of a storm ya'll endured.

Awesome video as always! This is my 3rd series with you and BI. The others were Surfside and Millennium Tower. I can’t thank you enough for your great presentation and for how much I’ve learned watching your videos. Can’t wait to see what this series brings. I’m glad you survived. Thanks again so much!

Greetings from Louisville, Boulder County, Colorado. We had Dec. 30, 2021 Marshall Fire, crazy Sep. 2013 rain, flooding.

You've been in my thoughts Josh. Glad to see a video from you and know you are well. Thanks for the great content as always.

I have a house in south-east Cape Coral that was built in 1992, just before Charlie. I've replaced the west-facing garage door and entry door with new, but haven't replaced the windows or added storm shutters. It's a miracle, but the only damage was an impact on the roof. It looks like someone shot a cannon at it. A little bit of water damage. My neighbor that upgraded the windows to code… they lost their garage door. The garage door is the biggest aperture in a home, and is the reason so many homes in Kendall were destroyed in 1992. I'm thankful that I had the mindset to do that around ten years ago. Thankful that I didn't lose any windows or sustain any flooding,

So glad you & your family are safe. Blessings to all affected by hurricane Ian. Godspeed in your recovery.

15 times through the eye, & in a hurricane type storm (if you count the whole spiral) probably 3 or 4 dozen times... (lived in a part of Japan that got Typhoons on average at least every week in summer)... interesting to compare. this seems to be more sustained winds, whilst the ones we got, had very strong gusts, & tended to have much more severe precipitation (30 - 60 inches per hour), but probably less of a constant force of air... getting really constantly strong only briefly in the eye wall itself. a few things we always did & you did not do... 1. ducktape crosses on all the windows and glass doors (for structural strength)... really helps... 2. when things get really bad, pin the glass door with the mattress (helps, and can save your life if a glass panel gets say shattered with a shingle or piece of tree, flying shards are a horrific way to injure yourself) 3.not something you can control per-say, but, being so close to the river is not something our district would have ever permitted... I am really surprised you did not wash out in this. 5. finally, Led-torch, & cask or construction helmet, possibly with goggles... not necessarily actually on you, unless you go outside, but certainly useful to always have within reach if stuff decides to hit the fan...