broken things, the houses, the buildings, the bridges, the boats, destroyed. but these images don t show you the lives that are broken. people on the margins whose homes, whose jobs, even their own bodies and their health are now precarious. people who don t have the insurance or the resources to rebuild. my team down here and i went for a drive here not far from where we discovered dozens of people at a shrimping dock for whom that is the situation tonight. no one has reached them and it is not clear if anyone has tried, but i saw them. and you can see them too. take a look. [inaudible] we swung around, we were right up. and they started pushing us, and shoved us, long story short, shop this all the way in, leaned over the taken out of us serious water. they got me off with the airboat. i didn t know that building was going to hold up or not. this was my seventh one. this is your seven? hurricane yes, andrew, charlie, harvey, and now in. yes, by far the worst! wh
Are you prepared right now? what conditions are you preparing to experience? we re looking at the highest tide surge that we re looking for could be upwards of 15 agl. we convert everything to msl here. we have mean sea level storm tide poles out there so residents can get a visual on what that s actually going to look like. so basically it s not an exact science for us but we take and basically add two foot to those agl numbers the media puts out there. so that 15 agl converts to 17 as a high tide surge for us. i mean, same level and all that but at least it gives them some visual to go out and look at. but for mean when it came through in 2016 affected cedar key just to put that in perspective for people, that came in at a little over i think it was around 9.6 msl. and we re looking at 17 msl. and hermine tore that island up pretty good and the community of
They got me off with the airboat. i didn t know that building was going to hold up or not. this was my seventh one. this is your seven? hurricane yes, andrew, charlie, harvey, and now in. yes, by far the worst! why, what was the worst about? it the wind, the tide, the tide surge! harvey, we had a tide surge. but we were seven miles from the beach. we are half a mile from the beach. we were up in that shop, and we were trying to take cover but we couldn t get out of here because of the car, the flooding, and there s a lot up in the attic. and we had us, we had a guy on crutches, and another lady that was in her 60s. and our dog up there. and we thought we were gone, because water came up all the way to the top. and then finally it stopped
Mostly counted as residents from the city of the island, a 20-foot high tsunami swept late on friday dragging debris with it, water smashing into buildings leaving devastation in its wake and hundreds of people gathered on a beach for festival are thought to be among the dead. others climbed trees to survive. that tsunami was triggered by a magnitude 7.5 earthquake which killed and injured many. questions are being asked now by official tsunami warning was listed 30 minutes after it was first issued, apparently there wasn t a warning sensor, the tide surge was missed and the original warning was still in place and moved across the seat at 500 miles an hour, very difficult to escape that. it has a long history of
Happened. you hunkered down and didn t evacuate. well, don, you know, our plan was to just ride it out. and we knew we were in a very secure strong house and we were on high ground and it did come through the upper keys. we did not get the eye like they did down in the lower keys, key west area. but we did get some pretty substantial winds for quite a while. a lot of damage up here with trees. i did not see any structural damage with homes. there was some flooding. there were boats that sank. and all in all the keys faired pretty well up here. we did have a tide surge like they were talking about. but it wasn t as severe as it could have been. were you scared there for a moment at moments? there was concern as it was approaching, you know, coming this way. going left. going right. you know, we just kept watching the weather minute by minute and it kept going to the west, going