strongest storm we ve seen in key west in decades, but we got by much less damage than what i thought. yeah. i mean, when you were riding out at the height of the storm, given what you saw, what you were hearing, did you think it was going to be much worse? well, i expected it to be, but i have to tell you, we re in a new city hall building that we just moved into this last november, and it was built to the latest building standards for south florida, and it was amazing how solid this building was and looking out the windows and seeing the effects of the wind and the water, but really not necessarily feeling the impact behind the walls and the windows of this building. so my hats off to the contractors for that. but still, it s a very impressive to be in a weather event like that and then be able to come out and start the recovery process and help out
you re going to find the city of bonita springs also hard hit by irma. much of bonita springs florida is underwater. this small stoic community sandwiched between fort myers and naples was slammed with irma s highest winds and unrelenting rain when the imperial river flooded, so did this mobile home neighborhood, the imperial bonita estates. caretaker of the mobile homes, she s visibly worried about an elderly couple who decided to stay in their home. through water that sometimes comes up to our wastes, water contaminated with oil, chemicals and garbage, we truj about a mile into the neighborhood. homes are inundated, badly damaged. some are completely overturned. we meet doer yen s husband roger who couldn t get to that couple. he s shaken by the condition of his neighborhood. there s a loft damage. a lot of damage. we finally make it to the
means people have to be in shelters. people being in shelters means the schools are still going to be closed. so it s a trickle down effect until we get the power solved, all those other issues support and so forth for the people in shelters, support for all the people that are still down in the keys at the end of the road at key west is still going to be there. and obviously authorities want to get businesses back online, want to get stores opened so people can get supplies. but until that happens, people are going to end up running low on their supplies and ending up relying on aid from authorities. well, that s certainly true. and we ve got the great secret weapon here in florida, and that is a warehouse in orlando called the state logistics response center. it has 300 truckloads of water which is a couple millions of gallons of boltsed water. and it has over 1 million shelf stable meals. those are already pushed out.
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water. we all recognize how unpredictable these waters can be. but this situation very far from over. it s also kind of a slap in the face to residents who thought when that storm started going to the west, what, two days oog and everyone thought it s going to be tampa, it s going to be naples, its going to be fort myers, i think probably some folks in jacksonville, they ve been told to evacuate any way, but probably breathe a sigh of relief, it s not going to really affect us. but obviously now we are here talking jacksonville one day after the storm made landfall. yeah. and downtown today, i met so many people staying at downtown hotels, who had come here from other parts of florida, from as far south as boca raton or hollywood, others coming from amelia island, but they thought it was a safe place to be. and then they come out from their hotel to mrng to see