Hurricane Ian causing conditions to rapidly deteriorate along southwest Florida coast

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Hurricane Ian – now a stronger and “extremely dangerous” Category 4 storm – has begun lashing Florida with major flooding and ruinous winds as it advances on a large swath of the state’s west coast with the potential within hours to inflict catastrophic floods and life-threatening storm surge. #CNN #News

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  1. Some of the barrier islands on the western coast of Florida have been ordered to evacuate, they are shutting down the power and water and closing bridges to the islands. You would have to be a fool to try and ride the storm out in these locations. These islands are going to have 2-3 feet of water in the streets.

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  3. Possibility of a Cat 5 is crazy especially just a few days ago cat 3 was the likely prediction at landfall. I wonder how many people who had left if Cat 5 was mention more during the lead up.

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    4. @Liberals In My Scope But you’re not Cuban, LOL. Learn to read and write before going on the internet to embarrass yourself.

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    5. @Brian do you have to be a certain race in order to observe where other races came from and observe their culture? No. I’m not a cat yet I know what a cat is. Get over it.

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  5. PLEASE BE SAFE EVERYONE !!!!

    PLEASE DON’T LEAVE YOUR PETS BEHIND !!!!

    PETS IN CAGES, TIED UP OR TRAPPED IN HOUSES AND KENNELS MAY DROWN.

    PLEASE ALL BE CAREFUL 🙏

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    2. @I H it is very tragic and very sad …leaving them behind is something I could never do…. I would always find a way, don’t matter what, during an evacuation to take the animals with

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    3. @RAVEN In A Van I Am Exactly… there is always a way, it may not be easy but there are ways…. I have evacuated with 4 cats in the past but for Ian, I decided not to because my cats are seniors and evacuating would be too hard on them… So I’m home, riding this one out with my fur babies.

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    2. @Vale Visa God bless you, non-believer. Whatever keeps a person hopeful is just fine. Keep your cynical attitude to yourself.

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    3. @Debbie Sidebottom Then what else do you suggest people do? Give up hope and cry? That’s what non-believers do. These people know where their hope lies. IN GOD!

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    4. @Life Soul Centered that comment was for James..he stated…he doesn’t care do you…that is my response to him for his comment….good luck..

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  7. These slow moving storms are no joke. Harvey was a cat 4. When it got to Houston it was just tropical. But it dumped 40″ of water. A couple of areas in east Texas got 60″.

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    2. Beaumont was hit hard. Even the high school gym where they were taking evacuees flooded. There was a picture of the gym with floaties and inner tubes and rafts floating all around the bleachers. It looked wild.

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  8. Florida is fixing to get messed up and as a born and raised Floridian, I’m crying because so many people are about to lose everything man. a whole life worth of work and memories, gone.

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    1. @LimpLimbo it’s been reported basically a cat 5 since 6:30am I noticed most of the media reported this late. Calling 155 mph a cat 4 still after 4hours and still in water ??? Definitely not true.

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    3. True, but who would build/accumulate expensive objects/properties right at the edge of ocean beaches in low lying non mountainous regions like Florida? Cuba has mountains and they were pummeled very hard by hurricane Ian and left with no electricity on the entire Island

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    4. People choose to live there knowing the risks. Getting sick and tired of my hard earned tax dollars remaking homes where they shouldn’t be in the first place.

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    5. It’s a cursed bit of land. Only the hubris of humans and our inability to concede that maybe some places just aren’t meant for us. That and Arizona. Give these death traps back to Mother Nature

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  11. Holy crap…. this is not looking good, really hope everyone in the path of the storm is as safe as they can be, our thoughts are on Florida.

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  13. Back when I was a kid growing up in the 80s and 90s in FL, it was exceedingly rare to even see a hurricane even reach cat 4 or higher let alone make landfall as a cat 4. Nowadays, it’s not uncommon to see 2 or more per hurricane season. One even reached what would have been a category 6 had there been such a classification. Hurricane Florence (2018) had at one point reached sustained winds 175+ mph before rapidly losing steam prior to landfall.

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    1. @joining jal or the FBI deciding to raid trumps Florida home 2 months before the midterms is not politically motivated at all and they were just paying a friendly visit lol

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    2. @Emma M it’s a Chinese hoax that they themselves don’t even follow climate standards so you know it’s made up by them to destroy our economy

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    3. @stratocasterblue all the federal taxes we pay in the year 2022 and we still live like we’re in the 1960’s infrastructure wise while we’re STILL sending literally billions of our tax dollars to eastern Europe, gotta love biden and his gestapo

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    4. @Emma M Again. I said exceedingly rare. I remember Andrew too. It is only 1 of 4 cat5 hurricanes to ever make landfall in the US. I don’t have to push climate change as a real thing. It’s doing plenty of pushing on its own. The people who still believe otherwise are mostly a combination of inbreds who think the earth is 6000 years old and/or people that think Trump won.

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    5. @Glenn Anderson I remember those times (clockwork summer rains ) too. Hated the mosquitoes that flooded the mid evenings.

      Hurricane Andrew was the only hurricane that stuck out in the time I lived in Central FL between 1979 to 2002. None of the others were even worth remembering. Most people don’t grasp that the destructive power of hurricane force wind scales exponentially and that warmer oceans are bad news.

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  14. Please take the time to help the elderly and disabled along with people who have no vehicles….help each other and don’t forget about the pets….you need each other at this time….may God watch over each of you and help to protect and save you all ..

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  18. I’m just wondering when someone is going to break out a sharpie outlining possible paths… in all seriousness, I hope everyone in its path stays safe

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  19. Listening to this I’m reminded of the outpouring of sympathy for the people in California from those in Florida while the wildfires were ravaging their state.
    Wait, that didn’t happen.

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