hello, and welcome to our viewers in the united states. and around the. world i m john. vause with the cnn center in atlanta. almost nine hours now since hurricane eta made landfall in southwest florida. and this monster storm continues to cause widespread flooding. and storm surges in 12 feet high in places. tonight, statewide. like trustees outed more than 2 million homes and businesses, and the power grid so badly damaged parts there are concerns it may need to be rebuilt. ian arrived at the state went just shy of a category five. it s since been downgraded to a category 1, but still remains very dangerous. authorities warning the worst may yet be to come. ian is now slowly moving into central florida, with winds around 90 miles or 145 kilometers per hour. time lapse video shows water levels rising on the streets of fort myers, south of where it made landfall. the national hurricane center said the storm surge on florida s west coast has likely peaked, and is now startin
have our fox news chief meteorologist rick reichmuth with us. rick this has been rough so far. really has. three things, the storm surge that broke records in fort myers and naples as well by a lot by the way, three feet higher than we had ever seen from any kind of storm surge in the past. that obviously causing all that flooding right along the immediate coast. then we have the winds, actual verified winds of 140 miles an hour in cape corral. a lot of this wind was really prolonged because it s such a slow-moving storm and then you have the rainfall. because it s so slow we get rainfall that just continues to batter the state and we ll see big time inland flooding concerns. this made land fall in the exact same space that hurricane charlie came on shore in 2004 which is amazing to have two massive hurricanes or two strong hurricanes like this come on shore in the exact same spot, hard to imagine, because it came on so strong, it s still a category 2 hurricane after having
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get some horrific storm surge. and we got every inch of it. you know, we lived through irma here in 2017. and a lot of storm surge was predicted. but at the last minute, that storm change quite a bit. and it left as a storm surge. but it gave people a little bit of a false sense of security meteorologists were kind of overestimate when that was not the case. well, the storm did all of the wrong things. i think, maybe all the right things that caused all the wrong problems. this storm came at us, and the storm search was catastrophic. so, although we had gusty winds, you know, we did not get the winds that, you know, folks in fort myers and northward got. it was pretty gusty here. but it was all about the water. you know, irma back in 2017 was all about the wind. and we had a lot of. damage but, this storm surge is something, just like you meteorologists said, unlike anything i ve ever seen. and the flooding here on marco island, a big part of the
have that 15-20 foot surge up tampa bay. but you want to know why this is very, very difficult to happen, and you saw it with charlie, because when a storm is moving parallel to the west coast of florida, the vectors around the storm change. and we see this, and there s actually papers on it done with typhoons in taiwan, that the frictional affects, if the storm is moving to the right of an island, parallel to it or the right of a peninsula, it will pull it in. and once it gets in, guess what it does? it goes looking for the water on the other side. you notice how hurricanes, when they re to the right of florida, tend to stay off shore, matthew, dorian, remember how they stayed offshore. because the same kind of frictional affect on the east coast will keep this offshore. so what you re seeing here is, like charlie remember charlie was forecasted up to tampa, too, remember? and where did it go? it went in south right here