even as a category one after making landfall. listen to this from affiliate w i k, in apple, south of where ian came ashore. i am trying to wrap my mind around what s going on right now. it is just unbelievable. if you look behind me, this entire bay, there is a dumpster, floating by, like a dog. you can see the roof of it, about to be ripped off. there are several boats. i don t know if you can see those. just floating in the distance. those that, we showed you yesterday, were tied up, at least five feet above the pier. they are just floating. no one on them, floating aimlessly, through the water. there is a rack of kayaks that washed up, no idea where these came from. another in a home, and it s bobbing up, and down, regular front of us. our news cars, we drove to get here, are underwater. they are buried. this situation, we have all been sitting inside, trying to compartmentalize, and that s the only way.
for being with us and, look at those images, they re gonna need all the help ticking. and thank you sir we appreciate. it thanks john. please stay with cnn for the latest on hurricane in. we ll find out where the hurricane is headed next, and some of the havoc it s already wreaked. tech: when you have auto glass damage. choose safelite. we can come to you and replace your windshield. tech: wow, thank you! customer and grandkids: bye! tech:ye! don t waitschedule now. singers: safelite reir, safelite replace. announcer: type 2 diabes? discover the power of 3 in the ozempic® tri-zone. in my ozempic® tri-zone, i lowered my a1c, cv risk, and lost some weight. announcer: ozempic® provides powerful a1c reduction. in studies, the majority of people reached an a1c under 7 and maintained it. ozempic® lowers the risk of major cardiovascular events such as stroke, heart attack, or death in adults also with known heart disease. and you may lose weight. adults lost up to 14 pou
in this area, as well. further north, looking at the available, as far as recent storms will hurricane michael, andrew, irma, category 4 to 5 skill. charlie, 2004, that storm, eerily similar to what we saw with ian as it made landfall. in fact, when ian produced winds at 150-miles-per-hour, that s precisely where charlie ended up, as well. when speed at landfall, making it a top-five or top-four strongest on record at landfall. notice, crossing land, this storm left more than $10 billion in losses at landfall. that s what we might have happening here. looking at the comparison and the size of wintrow made landfall to where ian made landfall, essentially doubling impacted areas there. the expansion of tropical storm- force winds, just impressive.
delayed across the united states. when you look what s happened in florida s own incredible story playing at an incredible amount of rainfall, 140 mile stretch where there s rainfall close to 20 inches in this spot. incredible flash flooding exists. 20 inches of rain, that s incredible. appreciate it. right now to cnn s gloria, who s in tampa, florida a city many thought would be directly in the path when it made landfall. but the worst is yet to come. according to city officials. i want to tell you john even since the last time i spoke to you conditions have begun to improve slightly. the wind has slowed down a little bit, the wind is starting to taper off, but ian is still very much above us and at this point it is without question that ian will leave a historic amount of damage in its path, flooding that storm
uneven, it s not a fair comparison because charlie was tiny compared to ian. it was a compact storm, the i was very small, some people have actually referred to charlie as a giant tornado, it was really small. it had winds of category four hurricane but in terms of the area covered, it was much smaller when you compare to ian, which is dramatically larger, covering a huge swathe of ocean before it made landfall. so that gave this storm time enough to build up those cds. and as the storm approached the coastline, also the angle at which it approached the coast was much more favourable to build those oceans, those seas and push them over land, which is what we are seeing now. and if we want to talk numbers, the estimates, for ian to