My parents entire town burned down in a wildfire, its very difficult to process losing your home and your community, my thoughts and prayers are with everyone in Florida, especially those areas inundated with water.

"but you consider yourself lucky.....is that because you're safe from the storm?" Prime reporting right there

So sorry to those who couldn’t evacuate for whatever reason. Thankful to all the first responders, healthcare workers. This is so sad.

I am actually thankful that you didn't disparage those who couldn't evacuate. Yes, it is better for them to do so and safer. However, too many miss the fact that some literally CANNOT LEAVE. Whether it's for health, financial or transportation reasons. And millions have no where to go. Just want to thank you for that. Most other places are being disrespectful to the poor/disadvantaged who can't move out of the way of the hurricane. You didn't do that. And I applaud you for it. 🤗

Salute to the first responders risking their lives to save people true heroes!!!!!!😢

I used to live in Sarasota. This is just awful. Hopefully everyone and their pets are safe!

I’m in Tennessee, and I’m watching my home state be destroyed. For the people that have not witnessed a hurricane, it’s very hard to process how emotional you feel.

Some floridians lost their home insurance a couple of months back, I hope they were able to get it back prior to this monster storm.

The should just ban hurricanes! So stupid of Florida for not passing laws to prevent hurricanes from coming.

I am in Leesburg Florida, it had just passed me, there was flooding this morning and it is worse now, almost lost power several times, but I am grateful to be alive Edit: Thank you so much to the first responders for trying their best to help, and the ones that did help, thank you, we all appreciate it so so so much

Oh my God seeing all the destruction I couldn't help but cry. My heart goes out to all those who lost their homes

Praying for Florida❤

I really feel bad for all the animals dying from thos storm

HATS OFF TO THE NEWS WOMEN AND MEN REPORTING IN THIS STORM !!!!

Gotta love how the guy doing the voiceover feels the need to be more dramatic than the actual footage.

I am praying for everyone that lives in Florida’. My daughter lives in Orlando and worried for her and Juan.

Entire Florida is NOT under THANK GOD Certain cities are , I’m in Jacksonville Florida and we are ok….My prayers to all who are effected by Ian 🙏🏽

🙏🙏🙏❤️ bless ALL first responders , and send them strength!

Thank God for all the rescue workers and voulteers

Good luck it the insurance companies because my house still isn't fix in Louisiana and it's been a year alstate is a rip off

I don't regret being a former Floridian. I feel so sorry for these people.

Sending my condolences to florida, this is awful, at Lake District in the north of England, I couldn’t leave the house due to the heavy storm, all the trees went down and power went off

Oh no! My best friends went to Florida few months ago! Thank you for letting me know! Good bless you and have a good day! 😮

That woman screaming. Lol why the F are you outside? In a storm stay away from trees 🌳

This is giving me flashbacks from Harvey. Goodness this hurricane season started too early 😔 I hope they’re all okay and won’t be without power for too long.

When ur broke and can’t leave 😢prayers

Prayers for all Florida so thankful it didn't hit us here in Texas

Please stop using the word viral. It's a hurricane. People get it.

Prayers for the people going through this in Florida.

Gracias Ron!! Martha’s Vineyard is lovely!!

THANK YOU TO ALL EMTs,,, FIRST RESPONDERS, FIRE DEPT..GUYS!!!! MAY GOD BLESS YOU ALL AND ALWAYS!!!!

Sending Florida lots of love from California. That is truly insane but beautiful to see people helping eachother. The eastern US drowns while the west burns... send that water this way!

That’s just insane and terrible. I pray this hurricane comes to a stop😢

Prayers up to all the folks up that way 🙏

Considering that most of the land mass of Florida is at sea level I am not shocked at how high the water levels reach during hurricanes and other such weather bombs. I am surprised that most people who live there and other places along sea coasts that get regularly battered continue to do so. Having been flooded more than 9 times myself it finally dawned on me to move. I have every sympathy with those who are experiencing these and other devastating climactic occurrences.

@ 1:44, the shear mindless obviousness of this "reporter" is comical. What stupid questions.

Thank you to first responders.

what's that dude thinking driving in the middle of this big storm?!

Thank you for this news God Bless everyone 🙏🏾♥️

The reporter at the 1:50 mark....good job on the questioning. I would have assumed they felt lucky b/c he was wearing a Corvette shirt. 🙄😮‍💨

Prayers for the people going through this in plorida

The heart goes out to everyone effected by hurricane Ian. We're coming back stronger from hurricane ida. I am one of the survivors near Grand Isle in Lafourche Parish, Louisiana. And to all those effected by hurricane Ian. Ya'll will come back stronger too. Stay safe out there. We are Gulf Strong. My heart goes out to the east coast as well

Its amazing that people deal with this every year and stay in Florida!

We had a 9 ft storm surge from hurricane Fiona in Atlantic Canada, luckily the maritime provinces are fairly hilly so the storm surge was limited to low lying areas close to shore, Florida is flat so the storm surge was able to make its way far inland

Wouldn't those flood water be infested with alligators? I wouldn't walk in it.

We had a 28ft storm surge in Mississippi during Katrina. It’s scary!!

It's a shame first responders had to risk their lives to help the idiots who could've left but chose not to; but, kudos to them ALL for saving the lives of those people who wanted to evacuate but could not.

Sooner or later insurance will no longer be available. The cost will either be astronomical or completely nil. You couldn't pay me to live where there is too much heat,hurricanes,sinkholes,roaches,chiggers,alligators,pythons,tornadoes. I don't see why anyone would. But if I did and I was told to get out you would not have to tell me twice. My heart goes out to the families who have lost loved ones and those who did not have the resources to leave. God Bless all the First responders. Stay safe.

Why did people not evacuate when told to leave? They had literally days to leave the high risk area

I know what its like to go through a Cat 5. My thoughts and prayers are with FL. 💜🙏🏻 May you get through this and rise stronger! Be safe everyone.

The reporter asked a very silly question.

Stay safe in Florida 😢

I used to live in NC. Hurricane Florence wiped out about a third of my towns housing. I really feel for these people.

At least there are several bus loads of immigrants that got out safe under deSatans early evacuation program. I hope that other floridians are safe too.

Please built stronger houses 😭 My heart is heavy and I pray for you ♥️ love from Switzerland ♥️

Ancient people have always said and say that the sea will always take back what belongs to it... Could it be that they built all these houses, shops, buildings in which part of the sea still has sand?

the governor should fly everyone out in a private jet to marthas vineyard. he did it for immigrants with tax dollars. why not citizens?

More to Florida, they said. Hurricanes every year, prolonged power outages. Sky high home insurance rates. Red tides, stinking green algae blooms, flesh eating amobeas... Nah, I'll pass, thanks though.

This man called them “customers”

So sad 😢 prayers from India

Honestly it sucks that first responders risk there lives for people who refused to leave. Yes I know some didnt have the resources to leave howver there were plenty of people who had the option and ability to leave but didn't because according to them this was just a scare tack tik

Neighborhood? More like several entire cities and towns around the state.

Miraculously, Hurricane Ian spared Palm Beach county. My prayers (*and contributions) are with the victims,

I'm sorry for those who legitimately couldn't leave. To the people who stayed based on choice? You were warned.

Evacuation is for rich people. People need to realize the danger of living so close to the ocean.

Sewer clogged in many parts central FL causing flooding....gusts continue constantly for now...

There needs to be more legislation for 1. Insurance companies to insure fairly, and 2) build codes requirements and restrictions in flood zones. If you're going to build hotels and houses on the flat beach like that. What else do you expect when a hurricane comes. Anywhere on the beach in FL and the Atlantic up to NC and on the gulf coast can get hit by a hurricane. I am surprised if any of these hotels or houses are insured anymore. State farm stopped all new insurance requests anywhere near the beach in Mississippi, and now there is a named storm clause for all houses in the US.

Sending my prayers

I live in New Smyrna Beach which is on the east coast of Florida (about 20 miles south of Daytona Beach) and we got hit by Ian very hard because we got the northeast part of the storm so we had to deal with Ian for about two days because he was so big we had the rain and wind early on with the storm and we were one of the last to get rid of Ian as he crossed over Florida. Ian’s eye was just to the south of us in Brevard County so we just got absolutely pounded in rain and wind. We were still under tropical storm warnings after Ian moved out of Florida it was nuts. I didn’t think he was going to be so bad and we did get hurricane force winds for a good 24 or 36 hours before our warnings were changed from hurricane warnings to tropical storm warnings. NSB was flooded and in some homes they had water almost 5 feet deep. One man died after he fell at home and the water went over him and he drowned. We got over 20 inches of rain from Ian. Our ponds in our backyards (I live in a neighborhood with 3 streets and all of the townhouses have a pond in their backyards) turned into lakes and our streets turned into rivers. We have a lot of wildlife where I live which is the best feature of where we live and we had fish and turtles swimming down our streets and the ducks were swimming all over the place. I got video of an egret fishing for food in the streets. I hope and pray that’s it for the hurricanes this year because we don’t want a repeat of 2004 where we got blasted by 3 hurricanes in one summer (Charley, Francis, and Jean). The past two years have been awful with my dad dying last year and this year I lost a cousin, an aunt, and an uncle. My aunt and uncle were married to each other (my aunt was my dads sister) and when my aunt died we went to S Florida near Ft Lauderdale for the funeral and we got hit by a tropical storm with a lot of rain. My uncle died 2 weeks ago and we ended up with a major hurricane. Go figure! Hopefully that’s it for this year and I hope everyone can clean up and rebuild quickly. We got lucky that our home didn’t flood. It was due to where our place was and compared to most in our neighborhood we got very lucky as most had at least their porches flooded and many had their homes flooded. Most of New Smyrna I think ended up under water but thankfully it wasn’t as bad as Ft Myers.

Didn't Gore say this would happen, every year it will get worse.

What more RECORD-BREAKING weather events, who would have thought it? It's not like we haven't seen these patterns emerging in the recent times and It's not like Scientist haven't warned of the EXTREME becoming more common. Thoughts and Prayers though.

Is that an alligator blown onto a tree 0:58 ? !!

May God bless all.🙏🕊️

OMG it’s only three hours away from Valley

Some could not leave.

Does anyone know how Belleair Beach weathered Ian?

DeSantis heads for Cancun for well deserved vacation. States he can’t get refunds for plane tickets. God bless Ron.

am I hearing correctly people have that have gotten to an area have been asked by their neighbors to check on their pets what kind of person would leave the storm and leave their pets in their home what kind of person

It’s Flordia so i assume that water is filled with Crocodiles and Aligators and Snakes

It's not like some of those homes are built all that sturdily. What do they expect?

Bro these hurricanes are becoming more and more common too.

Why are they outside?

Let's pray for Florida

My heart goes out to all those whole lost their loved ones and homes

Not need pay electric bill for sure

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I was gonna try move to Florida this year. I will only buy on the fourth floor now

I hope Florida can get through the long painful process without FEMA.

it is not such a good idea to dismiss the hurricane as being over with, the central pressure suggests the storm is weakened, it is growing again with having returned to open water. Round 2 anyone?

Oh no I feel so bad

So where do the alligators and crocodiles go? 😳

At a time when Floridians need all the good will they can get, DeSantis has just positioned himself as a petty, heartless villain to many Americans. Someone who is all about stunts for political gain and media attention. You have real problems that need solving, governor.

0:25 Rubber duckies pondering what to do next.

If anyone thinks that barrier islands were to be populated for the greedy pleasure of human blight, I send you Ian.

That tree crashing down on the home was in Valrico not in Tampa.

Would not live there. Would hate to leave my house everytime

Imagine someone refuses to be evacuated from the flooded car/building saying "you are unvaccinated, go away from me, you put me in danger"?

How could this happen again... In the same place that is always happens?

Any news about the victims? Where are they? I have a friend over there....how n i know about her

Praise Yah we made it through Ian