I moved here when I was 24, so you can imagine the memories I have from this beach. My wedding reception venue is gone. Places I danced with friends are gone. Even the place where the most embarrassing moment of my life took place…gone. I cry every time I see videos or photos. Hearing stories from the people who were on the beach or Pine Island during the storm breaks my heart. I live 10 minutes from Pine Island, and seeing Chinooks flying over my house, doing search and rescue, all day for several days was so surreal. I stuck it out in Cape Coral, and it was terrifying. I was scrounging through the garage looking for pool floats just to have something in case our house flooded. We were very lucky. We had almost no damage, which is insane to me because a half mile away, people lost everything. The home I lived in 9 months ago was flooded with 6 feet of water. The home I brought my son home from the hospital to 7 years ago flooded completely. Up to the ceiling. It’s just crazy what this community has gone through.
Why would stay there and go through this time after time. I wanted to live in Florida but as I got older. No thank you I will stay in Ohio. Matter of time, there will be another hurricane that will come.
Lived in Ft Myers and Naples in 2008 till 2013 breaks my heart a beautiful place with such great memories my prayer”s go out to all this makes me cry😞😞😞
@@jeffreyknight3884 It’s paradise. Until it’s not. Honestly I’m only here because my parents are. My dad needs warm weather because of health conditions, and it’s warm year round here.
Yes it is so sad. My great grandpa had a home on Ft. Myers’s Beach for many years and we stayed at the Royal Beach Club on Estero 3 Christmases in a row in the 90’s when I was a kid. It looks like the Town Houses which we stayed in the first year are still there but the condos across the pool are gone. I’m sure in a few years you won’t hardly be able to tell this ever happened much like New Orleans after Katrina but the landscape will never be quite the same again.
@@tyler2610 Even the buildings that are standing are ruined. The storm surge gutted them. They will rebuild, but the best part about FMB were the old, brightly colored beach cottages and shops. Even rebuilt, it will never be the same. I used to work on the beach, and every day I drove across the bridge, the first thing I would see was Times Square, and it always made me smile. It’s gone. So sad.
@@SoulShiner1115 I agree my building on the south end passed our 1st. Inspection. Unfortunately I lost friends and places with lasting memories and it won’t be the same but FMB will come back
Какой кошмар, это настоящая катастрофа! Я ни когда не была в вашей стране, и сейчас наблюдать эти разрушения через Ютуб , очень грустно! Желаю скорейшего восстановления! Люди дай Бог Вам здоровья и терпения, всё будет хорошо!
Я там живу почти 30 лет в этом городе ,первый раз такое вижу С природой не поспоришь но на пляже можно строить только цементные дома там много деревянных было
The real disaster is in Washington DC with all these damn treasonous Democrats. I've lived in Florida all my life 67 years and I've been through a bunch of hurricanes we get over them but we can't get over this s*** in DC if we the people don't hurry up and do something about it
Get on the website brother. I been working down here with TR for the the past 10 days. We need your knowledge down here just as much as operators. The more you experienced guys can teach us, the fast we can get shit done.
I know right. I live in Tampa and I'm like leave the beach a beach. Why is it called a barrier island? I guess in hopes to protect the mainland? And why by Tuesday would you not have grabbed what you could and got the hell off the island? Storm surge was inevitable. Alot of unanswered questions and I'm sure blame put on the wrong people
I know your heart is sore because of Fort Myers is destroyed but I hope your heart will be full with love for this Christmas I hope that Fort Myers forget rebuilt Santa. We’ll do it
My heart is broken and there will forever be a piece of me missing after losing this community we loved so much and the friends and family we can never replace.
@@yoyo8303 We will take every bit of kindness we can. Whether it’s in the form of prayer, just a kind word or anything else. Of course prayers alone won’t rebuild, but I much prefer a kind thought to your negativity. Be kind to others. This poster was passing along a nice thought, and you felt the need to be unkind in return, for some reason.
This video shows absolutely that barrier islands - which consist entirely of sand, just barely above the level of the ocean - should never have been developed so intensively. Used for recreation, of course, but with minimal construction. It's way too late by now to change that, but there are so very many sites just like this all along the Gulf Coast and Atlantic Coast of the USA that are vulnerable.
wow, i've been to ft meyers beach a number of times, it's unrecognizable, some condos survived but everything else is gone, and it looks like the low lying land east of the intercoastal waterway got it even worse.
@@growthandunderstanding if the world leaders take up the cause of global warming seriously & start working towards reducing the carbon footprint, then ultimately the sea temperatures won't go above 26.5 degree celsius and thus the recurrence of a circulation lessened. Thus a charging bull averted!
@@growthandunderstanding "any cost" opens a lot of possibilities. Here's some options... 1) Nuke the hurricane. 2) Build an armored glass dome over Florida. 3) Move Florida to California.
It just crossed my mind that it looks like a bomb went off and just decimated these places, am I the ONLY one who wonders if Mother EARTH isn't paying US BACK for all the WARS AND CONFLICTS that we are IN??? It's an ENERGY/ ENERGETIC, KARMA QUESTION......
@Jen Leigh Bibble prophecy tells us who's causing world wide destruction and Chaos. Revelation 12 : 9-12 scriptures tell us what we need to do to survive Gods coming anger. God is not causing these terrible disasters. He has a set day and time to remove all unrepentant evil doers and to Revelation 11:18 "Bring to ruin those ruining the earth." Psalms 37:29 The righteous will possess the EARTH and LIVE FOREVER ON IT. Revelation 21:4 God will wipe out all tears from their eyes and death WILL BE NO MORE. Neither will mourning nor outcry nor pain be anymore the former things will pass away. The present world system is passing away . A new system from God will replace present one. 1 John 2:17 No one will age get sick or die in Gods new system. If you have questions please reply. I'm speaking the Truth from Gods word. .
I’m an investor and already have staked claims ready to prime buy the shore line vacancies. Wait until you see how big the resorts will be when we’re through in about 7 years.
It actually looks like Christmas with the salt coating, one thing is clear...concrete survives....mobile homes, grade on slab, pillars are disposable. Probably one best case is someone finding their boat intact getting it back in the water and living on it while rebuilding or.....as my friend has done sailing away....
Over development. Greed. Northerners didn't mind ruining OUR once beautiful southern state. I hope you fight to keep the beaches just as they once were. Beaches. Mangroves and cypress should be protected. Plain and simple 😎🌴🐊
@@fljetgator1833 it wasn't Northerners who ruined Your beautiful state. It was your elected officials who refused to understand the science about the consequences of development on barrier islands and changing it's natural environment!
@@seveglider8406 partially correct. I'm from The Everglades. I grew up here. The glades have been trashed by extending I-75 & running it right THROUGH the middle of it. Interstate 75 wasn't South of Tampa when I was growing up. Do you 'think' that is was built for 'us'? Heck no! We didn't need it. It was built for the northerners migrating South. Many protected cypresshead & fire flag ponds (do you know what they are?) were soon 'sold off thru bribes & lobbying'.. ruined by developers that have come down here from up North! I knew some of those developers personally. F.M Beach? Do you remember when a swing bridge was the only way to cross over to that Island? Well I do! I saw this undeveloped beach before the high rise hotels were built. 'WE' didn't need them. It was once a BEAUTIFUL area. OVER developed now.. by and FOR .. northerners
@@fljetgator1833 WAKE UP STUPID! Your elected officials allowed development in places where it should not have happened. Development was done by native Floridians and people who moved there. Your comment is asinine!
Thru its path of the state and up along the coast. Port orange chuck e cheese was destroyed. A tornado had to hit it. Beach erosion in Daytona is real bad.
I heard the Lani Kai is a total loss. So sad, lot of wild evenings in that place while on vacation. So sad to see everything wiped out. But that’s the risk you take there. My heart breaks for the victims and survivors down there.
@@spiritpen Jesus dude. You and your turtles. Do you live in a house? Do you drive a car on roads? Guess what. I guarantee your house and the roads you drive on destroyed an animal habitat or 2. So do you deserve to lose everything? Or is it only turtles you have a bone for?
@@spiritpen yes sir. I hope this area is not rebuilt to what it became. A freaking mess. Speaking of the Lani Kai I won't tell you who I am but I'm part of this areas history. And the disrespect that the northerners give our area which include the Lani Kai. This was once a fine hotel. Spring breakers would piss and defecate off of the balconies and throw the patio chairs into the pool from above. 🤬 Nasty and disgusting disrespectful phkrs
I have not been to Ft Myers Beach in thirty two years and was planning on making a return visit . This is truly devastating of what I have seen so far I hope it can get as near as possible to its former glory . Florida has the worse weather too hot most of the time but it has one of the world's top most beautiful beaches , sunsets and sunrises
The only thing I'm going to say is that for the people who stand there on the 6 o clock news the following day after a major disaster and complain about local services not moving fast enough for their liking just makes me sick. And usually these are the people that have a home still standing, while most people have nothing but the clothes on their backs!
Now is the best time to buy land in Fort Meyers Beach. People will sell it dirt cheap because they’re scared to rebuild. Wait a few years and then sell it for huge profits after the rebuilding is done and the tourists come back.
Actually similar to Fukushima when they had their tidal wave. I think nuclear engineers in the United States government should really take note of this hurricane so that places like Port St Lucie nuclear power plant can be prepared to handle a storm surge like this. Right now the way Port St Lucie nuclear power plant is set up there's no way it could survive such a title search without going nuclear meltdown. Once the power supply is interrupted and the backup generators are flooded there is no way to supply fresh water to the cooling systems that they reactors rely on. That's exactly what happened to Fukushima and three of their reactors had nuclear meltdowns. That is still leaking radiation to this very day that happened way back in 2011. If Port St Lucie Nuclear Power Plant ever has to suffer a similar fate the entire State of Florida and Georgia would be affected and there would have to be Mass evacuation permanently. Not to mention all the deaths and related nuclear health problems that would follow soon after.
4 months before Ian hit, condo owners in Fort Myers Beach unleashed a pack of separate lawsuits trying to stop the 'Low-light Turtle Law' which for some years has required all lights on the beach to be fitted with yellow/amber lenses for the benefit of baby sea turtles emerging from their nests. When sea turtles are born, they instinctively run toward the light. Historically, the land was dark and the ocean was light from the reflections of the moon and stars. With the condos and hotels bars and businesses all lighting up the beach, baby turtles have been running to the highway. The yellow and amber lenses helped the turtles. So do not feel sorry for these nasty selfish inconsiderate people of Fort Myers Beach. Thank Ian instead that the turtles may yet live.
@Joey absolutely correct! I hope NO PERMITS are given to re-develop . This was once a naturally beautiful southern beach ! I know as it's my home. There used to be many trees and a large sandy beach near the pier. Then building after building after building was being put up. Sickening
What do you expect? You live on a natural flood plane for storm surges and think what ? It’s all not going to be touched? Then you want disaster relief when you shouldn’t have been there in the first place?
@@seancuneen5081 yes. They should never have developed it like that in the first place. I go back to the late sixties and the '70s here growing up and this place used to be beautiful. A natural wonder. Yankee OVER DEVELOPMENT has ruined our once beautiful southern state! I wish they would decide to not put buildings that close to the shoreline. Pretty simple really
@@seancuneen5081 Yes I think you should move unless you enjoy losing everything you’ve worked for . This happens more and more ,if you assume the risk then don’t crywhen it happens.
That is a real shame that had to happen. I lived in North Fort Myers for around 3 years. And I did get to go to that beach. Didn't look like that. My heart goes out to any victims there.
I can laugh at that 😂 however I don't think God is a prankster.. perhaps God is reminding people that they should leave natural beauty as it is and let all people enjoy these beautiful Southern beaches... not just a few that build directly on the shoreline. 🌴😎
I’m thinking maybe we shouldn’t rebuild here. Ever. If this is a 100 year storm it will just happen again. At the very least insurance companies will Juno longer insure those choosing to live here n
They should not be allowed to rebuild , after all what is it called when you do the same thing over and over and expecting a different result, idiocy ?
Yehp, it's sad alright. It's also past time to have a sober conversation about living on barrier islands in times of sea level rise and climate change. Not trying to rub salt into the wounds. But every time there's a disaster, people say "now is not the time to talk about it." Then there's an expensive recovery, followed by the amnesia. I'll make a proposal: abandon all those beautiful barrier islands and restore them as National Seashores. It's not as dumb as it sounds. The properties, if they aren't already, will be all but uninsurable except to the absurdly wealthy.
This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to get rid if the "Panama Beach" honky tonk crap rebuild better. Unless you want to do another Redneck Riviera.
The wisest thing that should be on everyone's mind currently should be to invest in different streams of income that doesn't depend on the govt. Especially with the current economic crisis around the world.>
What do you think happens when you live next to an ocean..lol. for real. I'm just a visitor but clear taking repeating factors as nope. Not living there. Lol
sad, very sad but we all knew that something like that could happen. I am sure great people of Florida find their way to recover with God and people help. and Government, of course.
New mandates should bar people from constructing new structures that are wooden. Go brick or go home. Its absolutely sad how many lives and property were lost in the hundreds of wooded structures the island had. Most of them on their last legs too like the ones behind hooters. 60 days to cleanup and then FEMA is out? What's that gonna cost the city? Sad.
I moved here when I was 24, so you can imagine the memories I have from this beach. My wedding reception venue is gone. Places I danced with friends are gone. Even the place where the most embarrassing moment of my life took place…gone. I cry every time I see videos or photos. Hearing stories from the people who were on the beach or Pine Island during the storm breaks my heart. I live 10 minutes from Pine Island, and seeing Chinooks flying over my house, doing search and rescue, all day for several days was so surreal.
I stuck it out in Cape Coral, and it was terrifying. I was scrounging through the garage looking for pool floats just to have something in case our house flooded. We were very lucky. We had almost no damage, which is insane to me because a half mile away, people lost everything. The home I lived in 9 months ago was flooded with 6 feet of water. The home I brought my son home from the hospital to 7 years ago flooded completely. Up to the ceiling. It’s just crazy what this community has gone through.
Absolutley heartbreaking to hear this. Praying for everyone affected by Ian's wrath. 🙏😪
Why would stay there and go through this time after time. I wanted to live in Florida but as I got older. No thank you I will stay in Ohio. Matter of time, there will be another hurricane that will come.
Lived in Ft Myers and Naples in 2008 till 2013 breaks my heart a beautiful place with such great memories my prayer”s go out to all this makes me cry😞😞😞
@@jeffreyknight3884 It’s paradise. Until it’s not. Honestly I’m only here because my parents are. My dad needs warm weather because of health conditions, and it’s warm year round here.
i blame the ones who poorly designed the city
My buddy's a fireman down in Cape Coral doing his best, GOD BLESS to all who needs him...
Who is it? I live in Cape and know a few firefighters. I used to work in the ER, so we saw the first responders daily.
@@SoulShiner1115 I hate to give names but let’s just say he’s been there for over 20 years, I was just down there a couple three months ago
Just breaks my heart and fades my memories of being there . Wish I could help and make it all better. I’m so sorry everyone
Yes it is so sad. My great grandpa had a home on Ft. Myers’s Beach for many years and we stayed at the Royal Beach Club on Estero 3 Christmases in a row in the 90’s when I was a kid. It looks like the Town Houses which we stayed in the first year are still there but the condos across the pool are gone. I’m sure in a few years you won’t hardly be able to tell this ever happened much like New Orleans after Katrina but the landscape will never be quite the same again.
@@tyler2610 Even the buildings that are standing are ruined. The storm surge gutted them. They will rebuild, but the best part about FMB were the old, brightly colored beach cottages and shops. Even rebuilt, it will never be the same. I used to work on the beach, and every day I drove across the bridge, the first thing I would see was Times Square, and it always made me smile. It’s gone. So sad.
@@SoulShiner1115 I agree my building on the south end passed our 1st. Inspection. Unfortunately I lost friends and places with lasting memories and it won’t be the same but FMB will come back
It looks like it had snowed there's so much sand and lack of foliage.
I was there for the pass two weeks working as lineman. It was terrible and so sad.
So sad.... god bless ya'll .
Какой кошмар, это настоящая катастрофа!
Я ни когда не была в вашей стране, и сейчас наблюдать эти разрушения через Ютуб , очень грустно!
Желаю скорейшего восстановления!
Люди дай Бог Вам здоровья и терпения, всё будет хорошо!
Я там живу почти 30 лет в этом городе ,первый раз такое вижу
С природой не поспоришь но на пляже можно строить только цементные дома там много деревянных было
The real disaster is in Washington DC with all these damn treasonous Democrats. I've lived in Florida all my life 67 years and I've been through a bunch of hurricanes we get over them but we can't get over this s*** in DC if we the people don't hurry up and do something about it
@@rockabillymike9398 what i said too. This isn't a poor country, stop using wood
I'm a retired heavy equipment operator in MI. I so wish I was strong enough to donate my skills and help those in Florida recover.
I think heavy equipment is how they built in the mangrove swamp in the first place.
Thank you for your kind thoughts.
@@spiritpen yes and they should never have been allowed to do that. Ruining the ecosystem in our once beautiful Southern State
@Sarah Nguyen pfft
Get on the website brother. I been working down here with TR for the the past 10 days. We need your knowledge down here just as much as operators. The more you experienced guys can teach us, the fast we can get shit done.
I have no words, but only tears & heartbreak for my state.
Vote for Charlie Crist 🤠
@@misterg4059 That would be a worse disaster than Ian 🤡
@@paulsoxl7739 😂😂😂ok WWG1WGA 😂😂😂
We’ve all seen similar devastation by storms and have been shocked and heartbroken. It is incomprehensible when it is your home.
God is coming soon ..
Not the first hurricane to hit the west coast of Florida and it won't be the last. The risk you take to live there.
Maybe build a house away from the beach 🏖 because like it or not this won’t be the last
I know right. I live in Tampa and I'm like leave the beach a beach. Why is it called a barrier island? I guess in hopes to protect the mainland? And why by Tuesday would you not have grabbed what you could and got the hell off the island? Storm surge was inevitable. Alot of unanswered questions and I'm sure blame put on the wrong people
@@jaimepadgett3323 agreed! 🐊🌴
Nah. Use your insurance, rebuild. Design a new house. Fun.
@@kenmacphee7400 however many insurance companies have a clause that states they will not cover natural disaster or war. Isn't that correct?
@@fljetgator1833 So it’s up to you to do your own due diligence.
So devastating! I vacationed here when I was younger with my family.
Our prayers are with the people of Ft Myers and Cape Coral. Stay strong
I know your heart is sore because of Fort Myers is destroyed but I hope your heart will be full with love for this Christmas I hope that Fort Myers forget rebuilt Santa. We’ll do it
My heart is broken and there will forever be a piece of me missing after losing this community we loved so much and the friends and family we can never replace.
It will be rebuilt. Maybe not as the way we remember it. But life and progress will prevail in time. It hurts I know!
Why have a broken heart. You live by the ocean and you say you have a broken heart. You knew what could happen and it did.
@@jeffreyknight3884 because I care enough. For each and everyone there.
WOW .. Amazing: this good report/ information video has: "NO Commercials"
Shock & Awe
This is so heartbreaking,devastating and so sad.
Sending prayers to all affected by this horrible monster of a storm may God grant you peace and understanding beyond all measures
PRAYERS? WHAT CAN THEY DO? REBUILD IN 1 DAY.
@@yoyo8303 fuck up
@@yoyo8303 We will take every bit of kindness we can. Whether it’s in the form of prayer, just a kind word or anything else. Of course prayers alone won’t rebuild, but I much prefer a kind thought to your negativity. Be kind to others. This poster was passing along a nice thought, and you felt the need to be unkind in return, for some reason.
Thank you for your kind thoughts and words. I appreciate it very much.
@@SoulShiner1115 facts
This video shows absolutely that barrier islands - which consist entirely of sand, just barely above the level of the ocean - should never have been developed so intensively. Used for recreation, of course, but with minimal construction. It's way too late by now to change that, but there are so very many sites just like this all along the Gulf Coast and Atlantic Coast of the USA that are vulnerable.
I have supported 4 children and when I was unemployed i could not get any financial help. Nothing. Zero.
If you're a multi-millionaire, the government's got your back 👍
Oh my God. That's so sad. It'a like the city was nuked. Sending my best regards from Brazil. You will recover soon!!
It's going to take 5-10 years to restore many of our areas, it's a wasteland for 100 miles along the west coast
wow, i've been to ft meyers beach a number of times, it's unrecognizable, some condos survived but everything else is gone, and it looks like the low lying land east of the intercoastal waterway got it even worse.
Ft Myers.
And.. the intercoastal waterway is The Caloosahatchee.. runs west / east : Gulf of Mexico to Atlantic Ocean
@Sarah Nguyen eh, global warming is caused by human activity, there are no gods, saviors, or magic deities. sorry, but that's the truth.
A terrible tragedy which needs to be averted at any cost. My thoughts & wishes for the spirited people, who still stand!
How can one avert a hurricane?
@@growthandunderstanding if the world leaders take up the cause of global warming seriously & start working towards reducing the carbon footprint, then ultimately the sea temperatures won't go above 26.5 degree celsius and thus the recurrence of a circulation lessened. Thus a charging bull averted!
@@growthandunderstanding "any cost" opens a lot of possibilities. Here's some options... 1) Nuke the hurricane. 2) Build an armored glass dome over Florida. 3) Move Florida to California.
Looks like Gulfport after Katrina.
Sad but also alot of overdevelopment. Needed alot of cleaning up before the storm.
It just crossed my mind that it looks like a bomb went off and just decimated these places, am I the ONLY one who wonders if Mother EARTH isn't paying US BACK for all the WARS AND CONFLICTS that we are IN??? It's an ENERGY/ ENERGETIC, KARMA QUESTION......
@Jen Leigh
Bibble prophecy tells us who's causing world wide destruction and Chaos. Revelation 12 : 9-12 scriptures tell us what we need to do to survive Gods coming anger. God is not causing these terrible disasters.
He has a set day and time to remove all unrepentant evil doers and to Revelation 11:18 "Bring to ruin those ruining the earth."
Psalms 37:29 The righteous will possess the EARTH and LIVE FOREVER ON IT.
Revelation 21:4 God will wipe out all tears from their eyes and death WILL BE NO MORE. Neither will mourning nor outcry nor pain be anymore the former things will pass away.
The present world system is passing away . A new system from God will replace present one.
1 John 2:17 No one will age get sick or die in Gods new system. If you have questions please reply.
I'm speaking the Truth from Gods word.
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I've said the same thing. Earth is just cleansing herself....the signs are all around us, it's time they are heeded.
Holy Sh$%... Complete Devastation ! Did not know it was this BAD!
Nice to see the ocean is still there.
Big money will buy those empty lots.
I’m an investor and already have staked claims ready to prime buy the shore line vacancies. Wait until you see how big the resorts will be when we’re through in about 7 years.
@@R.P.E Sure you are.
@@R.P.E I hope all greedy developers stay tf out.
Reminds me of Jersey when Sandy hit good luck people.
DESANTIS - Oh. You mean the same guy who voted against EMERGENCY FEMA RELIEF FUNDING FOR HURRICANE SANDY'S POPULATION ? THAT SANDY ?
Thank you for your help!
It actually looks like Christmas with the salt coating, one thing is clear...concrete survives....mobile homes, grade on slab, pillars are disposable. Probably one best case is someone finding their boat intact getting it back in the water and living on it while rebuilding or.....as my friend has done sailing away....
OMG; where would you even start?
I will never understand why they build cities on sandbars 🤔
It wasn’t a sandbar in the beginning. It was a much larger island in the 40s. The mistake was ripping out so much of the mangroves.
Over development.
Greed.
Northerners didn't mind ruining OUR once beautiful southern state. I hope you fight to keep the beaches just as they once were. Beaches. Mangroves and cypress should be protected. Plain and simple 😎🌴🐊
@@fljetgator1833 it wasn't Northerners who ruined Your beautiful state. It was your elected officials who refused to understand the science about the consequences of development on barrier islands and changing it's natural environment!
@@seveglider8406 partially correct. I'm from The Everglades. I grew up here. The glades have been trashed by extending I-75 & running it right THROUGH the middle of it. Interstate 75 wasn't South of Tampa when I was growing up. Do you 'think' that is was built for 'us'? Heck no! We didn't need it. It was built for the northerners migrating South. Many protected cypresshead & fire flag ponds (do you know what they are?) were soon 'sold off thru bribes & lobbying'.. ruined by developers that have come down here from up North! I knew some of those developers personally. F.M Beach? Do you remember when a swing bridge was the only way to cross over to that Island? Well I do! I saw this undeveloped beach before the high rise hotels were built. 'WE' didn't need them. It was once a BEAUTIFUL area. OVER developed now.. by and FOR .. northerners
@@fljetgator1833 WAKE UP STUPID! Your elected officials allowed development in places where it should not have happened. Development was done by native Floridians and people who moved there. Your comment is asinine!
Wow, looks war torn. Amazing the bridge still stands.
I sold my condo 3 years ago. Florida is mostly water, and people build in the craziest places. Nature took back what people should’ve owned.
You mean Nature took back what people should not have owned!
How many square miles you think were devastated like this? Wow
Thru its path of the state and up along the coast. Port orange chuck e cheese was destroyed. A tornado had to hit it. Beach erosion in Daytona is real bad.
I heard the Lani Kai is a total loss. So sad, lot of wild evenings in that place while on vacation. So sad to see everything wiped out. But that’s the risk you take there. My heart breaks for the victims and survivors down there.
should never been built on turtle nesting beach
@@spiritpen Well maybe Ian was the sign that it’s time to give the beach back to the turtles. 🤷🏼♂️🤔
@@spiritpen Jesus dude. You and your turtles. Do you live in a house? Do you drive a car on roads? Guess what. I guarantee your house and the roads you drive on destroyed an animal habitat or 2. So do you deserve to lose everything? Or is it only turtles you have a bone for?
@@spiritpen yes sir. I hope this area is not rebuilt to what it became. A freaking mess. Speaking of the Lani Kai I won't tell you who I am but I'm part of this areas history. And the disrespect that the northerners give our area which include the Lani Kai. This was once a fine hotel. Spring breakers would piss and defecate off of the balconies and throw the patio chairs into the pool from above. 🤬 Nasty and disgusting disrespectful phkrs
Wow looks like Haiti
It will never be the same again. It will just turn into another version of the Bahamas.
It always had a small owner surf shop feel to it
I have not been to Ft Myers Beach in thirty two years and was planning on making a return visit . This is truly devastating of what I have seen so far I hope it can get as near as possible to its former glory . Florida has the worse weather too hot most of the time but it has one of the world's top most beautiful beaches , sunsets and sunrises
I was just there a couple months ago, it was awesome...
It's been overdeveloped by transplants. I hope they leave it TF alone.
What does a car dealerships look like after the hurricane are the cars still parked.?
I live here and this is just sickening to my heart.
I seen this area in the game Fallout 7
Why rebuilt when it going to happen again
Looks a little better
The only thing I'm going to say is that for the people who stand there on the 6 o clock news the following day after a major disaster and complain about local services not moving fast enough for their liking just makes me sick. And usually these are the people that have a home still standing, while most people have nothing but the clothes on their backs!
frequented the CAROUSEL MOTEL ON THE BEACH Estero Blvd. Guessing that is gone... any updates?
Now is the best time to buy land in Fort Meyers Beach. People will sell it dirt cheap because they’re scared to rebuild. Wait a few years and then sell it for huge profits after the rebuilding is done and the tourists come back.
You can rebuild.However, this will happen again in Ft. Meyers Florida.
what a shame! 😢
Shame on who ?
Actually similar to Fukushima when they had their tidal wave. I think nuclear engineers in the United States government should really take note of this hurricane so that places like Port St Lucie nuclear power plant can be prepared to handle a storm surge like this. Right now the way Port St Lucie nuclear power plant is set up there's no way it could survive such a title search without going nuclear meltdown. Once the power supply is interrupted and the backup generators are flooded there is no way to supply fresh water to the cooling systems that they reactors rely on. That's exactly what happened to Fukushima and three of their reactors had nuclear meltdowns. That is still leaking radiation to this very day that happened way back in 2011. If Port St Lucie Nuclear Power Plant ever has to suffer a similar fate the entire State of Florida and Georgia would be affected and there would have to be Mass evacuation permanently. Not to mention all the deaths and related nuclear health problems that would follow soon after.
send it to nyc we need it here
That should be a barrier island they should not have built anything on that Island like that
There should never be any development on any barrier island!
Can someone tell me if this was worse than Katrina?
This kinda takes you back to hurricane dorian it’s that bad
4 months before Ian hit, condo owners in Fort Myers Beach unleashed a pack of separate lawsuits trying to stop the 'Low-light Turtle Law' which for some years has required all lights on the beach to be fitted with yellow/amber lenses for the benefit of baby sea turtles emerging from their nests. When sea turtles are born, they instinctively run toward the light. Historically, the land was dark and the ocean was light from the reflections of the moon and stars. With the condos and hotels bars and businesses all lighting up the beach, baby turtles have been running to the highway. The yellow and amber lenses helped the turtles. So do not feel sorry for these nasty selfish inconsiderate people of Fort Myers Beach. Thank Ian instead that the turtles may yet live.
The turtles got washed away too
@@paulsoxl7739 They have flippers DOH!
@@spiritpen Their gone the lights had nothing to do with it.
Joey, you are the definition of leftist insanity. Go wear your mask and get your 5th jab.
@Joey absolutely correct! I hope NO PERMITS are given to re-develop . This was once a naturally beautiful southern beach ! I know as it's my home. There used to be many trees and a large sandy beach near the pier. Then building after building after building was being put up. Sickening
this is really so sad but I'm still praying for everyone 😣😥
I mean you're building on the edge of a ocean.
How many casualties?
looks like a step back in time
@Sarah Nguyen i was raised in the panhandle i no what you mean
This is cool
What do you expect? You live on a natural flood plane for storm surges and think what ? It’s all not going to be touched? Then you want disaster relief when you shouldn’t have been there in the first place?
It’s financial insanity with the big banks and the millionaires play the game. They’re willing to spend it and they get what they want
So everybody that lives on a beach in your opinion should move. I hope a natural disaster never hits your area.
@@seancuneen5081 yes. They should never have developed it like that in the first place. I go back to the late sixties and the '70s here growing up and this place used to be beautiful. A natural wonder. Yankee OVER DEVELOPMENT has ruined our once beautiful southern state!
I wish they would decide to not put buildings that close to the shoreline. Pretty simple really
@@seancuneen5081 Yes I think you should move unless you enjoy losing everything you’ve worked for . This happens more and more ,if you assume the risk then don’t crywhen it happens.
Crazy thing is they will rebuild in the same place.
I wonder why the palm trees are almost untouched. Kidding - I don't wonder.
Is like a ghost town. I wish I could go our there and help
Awful! I moved after Irma put 2-3 feet of marsh water in my former home. That was insignificant compared to this.
It was worth sitting it out on Sanibel , Fort Myers and paying the insurance all of those years.
When reality is over sciences fiction movies!
That is a real shame that had to happen. I lived in North Fort Myers for around 3 years. And I did get to go to that beach. Didn't look like that. My heart goes out to any victims there.
yes, that is what happened when people build so much so close to the ocean.
@Sarah Nguyen man what is this a small novel. Lol no disrespect to you. You surely have a lot to say.
Galveston is the Road Map going forward still working great for Houston, Texas going on over one Century now.
God is quite the prankster
I can laugh at that 😂 however I don't think God is a prankster.. perhaps God is reminding people that they should leave natural beauty as it is and let all people enjoy these beautiful Southern beaches... not just a few that build directly on the shoreline. 🌴😎
I’m thinking maybe we shouldn’t rebuild here. Ever. If this is a 100 year storm it will just happen again. At the very least insurance companies will Juno longer insure those choosing to live here n
That's the risk we take when we choose to live so close to the shore.
I have been in Fort Myers for 29 years and some spots are barely recognizable
Looks like it snowed
So nice and quiet
It will take years, and years before it is rebuilt into something new.
Before it is rebuilt, another major hurricane will devastate it again!
They should not be allowed to rebuild , after all what is it called when you do the same thing over and over and expecting a different result, idiocy ?
Tak kończy się życie budowane bez moralności
@Beata ... yes! Correct. Thank you. Da 😎 falemenderit
@@fljetgator1833 Dobrze, że wyciągasz wnioski. Natura się zbuntowała wobec ludzi, bo i ona jest dziełem Boga
@@beatanowakowska8845 ja licu, ja razumieju. Dy sprava Bozaja . Boga ? Tak?
Yehp, it's sad alright.
It's also past time to have a sober conversation about living on barrier islands in times of sea level rise and climate change. Not trying to rub salt into the wounds. But every time there's a disaster, people say "now is not the time to talk about it." Then there's an expensive recovery, followed by the amnesia.
I'll make a proposal: abandon all those beautiful barrier islands and restore them as National Seashores. It's not as dumb as it sounds. The properties, if they aren't already, will be all but uninsurable except to the absurdly wealthy.
Very sad , Mother Nature and global warming, we have to get away from fossil energy and make the transition to clean renewable 😢
What a mess. The irony is making me giggle like a little school girl.
Beach shell inn
kind of looks like Ramadi Iraq just without the water view lol
@Sarah Nguyen What does this have to do with my comment?
Ideale Filmkulisse.
This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to get rid if the "Panama Beach" honky tonk crap rebuild better. Unless you want to do another Redneck Riviera.
The wisest thing that should be on everyone's mind currently should be to invest in different streams of income that doesn't depend on the govt. Especially with the current economic crisis around the world.>
May I ask which stocks are good? I've been looking at a few different ones but want others' opinions as well
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Putin : "I was there"…
What do you think happens when you live next to an ocean..lol. for real. I'm just a visitor but clear taking repeating factors as nope. Not living there. Lol
What a shame.
@Sarah Nguyen EASY NOW...it was just a STORM...
Poor construction and architects without imagination.
sad, very sad but we all knew that something like that could happen. I am sure great people of Florida find their way to recover with God and people help. and Government, of course.
@Sarah Nguyen if it works for you that's fine. let the other be too.
New mandates should bar people from constructing new structures that are wooden. Go brick or go home. Its absolutely sad how many lives and property were lost in the hundreds of wooded structures the island had. Most of them on their last legs too like the ones behind hooters. 60 days to cleanup and then FEMA is out? What's that gonna cost the city? Sad.
DO NOT REBUILD ON BARRIER ISLAND
Not really that bad.
It looks like a war zone.
Looks like insurance rates will be going up for everyone.
Many Insurance companies will no longer issue home owner insurance policies in Florida.
Don't build so close to the Gulf.
Put your drone toy away & send some Greyshirts to help the people on Fort Myers Beach!!
They've been hammered - join hands with them & help them GSD!!