this point. that s where she lives, she doesn t have any resources in the area. imagine that. imagine being completely displaced from your home, having nowhere to go in an area that is severely impacted by the storm. floodwaters, no power, difficult access to any kind of emergency services. it is unfathomable for his residents to try to go through this. you know, we ve been talking about the storm coming for days, but can you explain to us, the course of the storm kind of changed in the last day or so that caught people off-guard. because in new york, when we look at these images of marinas that are filled with boats that now looked like a boat graveyard, we figure why didn t people take them out of the water? but there really wasn t much time was there? there wasn t. for very long time, we thought the storm was gonna be tracking a little bit more north than us, so we are under a lot of flood warning, storm surge, heavy rain and then we did not anticipate that it was going to
came down, stayed in tampa. we left tampa during the night, when the storm was moving towards the east coast. we went down the west coastline and came in behind the storm and immediately started, doing rescues. it amazes me. you got there on wednesday. tell me where you are on monday? where were you on saturday? because you re a group of volunteers that pulls together. how does your infrastructure work? well, we responded to multiple deployments each year. we are actually from lafayette, louisiana. our organization was based out of there. but we have people from all over the country, from arizona, from texas. i m actually from georgia. but we have responders and volunteers from all over the country that come together, to help our neighbors in a terrible situation. just try to give them hope and
priorities are the images like you re seeing right now. so if people are going out of their homes and they don t know what s out there. and you mentioned alligators and snakes, but we also have this debris. saw the coverage of the day, and they re going out in the motor vehicles and are being stuck now. you re taking emergency vehicles and first responders and god bless them, they re out there around the clock and saving lives, at this moment they ve been out there for 24 hours. now you re taking crews out of those life-saving pictures, and putting them into other areas that could ve been averted. so people really need to stiff they safe, need to be smart, not putting their generators in their homes. i ve been in contact with f p and al they are making tremendous progress, but as the storm continues across our state, even when they were starting to put power back in in some parts, of course restoring fort myers will be
harris, climate change reporter for the new york herald, and david jolly of, former congressman from florida was safe in pennsylvania tonight. alex, just how complicated is insurance in florida right now. is it that they are jacking their premiums are contagious not afford to stay in business given the amount of storms that are happening? the insurance market is really tough in florida right now. we have all of these companies going belly up, and their clients and citizens of last resort, not stressing people out. but these companies are forced to raise the rates because of fraudulent claims. there s a lot going on the financial market and insurance right now. florida is not the only place struggling, but up until this week, one of the reasons they weren t struggling is that we haven t had a storm, and now expect that we expect the