I’m not sure where you are getting your information from but Hurricane Ian never had winds of 180, even over open water. Let alone gusts over 200mph

Were you here?

I was in an area, Rotonda west, where in my opinion homes suffered some of the worst wind damage(Northwest quadrant) and I can say it was hard to record the videos I took as it just felt super unsafe. Pieces of homes were being destoryed all around us including our own, lots of homes had boarded windows on our street that blew out and we were just waiting for our turn. It's incredible. A newer home definitely fairs better in a hurricane. We didn't have much time to watch as we combatted water coming through every crack in the ceiling and to protect our belongings. And then the flood water came.

Never imagined I’d be able to see the milky way from inside a city of 200,000 people

@@noahpage7459Not sure what part of the Cape you live in, but you’re lucky lol. I get more light pollution I guess

@@BobRoss-kt4yu it was after the hurricane when the whole city had no power. So no lights or light pollution.

Have to give props to Dr Rick Knabb, he was saying the storm could well hit Fort Myers a couple days before the track from the NHC shifted away from tampa

Why?

Luckily thats just the way hurricanes form. Winds tend to be strongest in the northwest quadrant of the storm

@@noahpage7459 Actually it's usually the northeast quadrant. It's pretty rare that the west side is stronger (as was the case with Ian) Offshore though when the storm was a cat 5 off the coast of Naples, it seems that the cat 5 winds actually occurred on the right side, that side just happened to lose a lot of strength before coming ashore.

@@tvold9204 oh you’re right, my mistake! Guess it could have been worse. Though, there was a gust, I believe, that had an unofficial measurement of 140 in south cape. Which I believe is the strongest land measurement from the storm. But that may be an unreliable report.

@@noahpage7459 Yeah I saw the same thing but I bet you in places with no observations (Cayo Costa/Sanibel/Cape Haze Peninsula area) there were gusts quite a bit stronger than even that.

Glad you enjoyed it

House sits 9ft above water level. Predicted surge for my area inland was 6-10ft. 2nd floor starts at 21ft above water level. There was no way the water level would rise that much.

I couldn’t tell you. I don’t go to Fort Myers often

The cone is only supposed to represent a 66% chance of the very center of the eye passing somewhere inside of the cone. The actual eye wall and the outer bands will not be confined to the cone.

@@noahpage7459 People died because they thought that cone meant they wouldn't feel the effects of the storm.

@@mojitomomlab unfortunately the cone is not terribly intuitive for most people

Not sure what part of Cape you’re referring to because winds shifted about 4:30pm in western Cape Coral. And no winds of 150 were measured anywhere over land with this storm. At 6:30pm the winds were coming out of the west. And they remained out of the west for the rest of the storm.

What lake?

Thanks Sherlock. Appreciate your valuable insight

@@noahpage7459 🤣🤣👍

You guys had so much rain fall up stream I’m surprised the water didn’t raise even longer. I saw videos of entire RVs under water along the river

@@noahpage7459 I got luck it didn't get on the house. Literally 4more inches and it would have. It was crazy. I had to kayak to dry ground to get rescued

All houses built in Florida after hurricane Andrew are required to be able to withstand 150mph winds

All permanent homes built in Florida after 1992 are rated to withstand 150mph winds so all non mobile homes built after 1992 that were hit by this storm should still be standing.

That was the first!

@@noahpage7459 Oh wow!!!

@@candicecassel1110 definitely a nice “welcome to Florida” lol

I lived in Cape Coral , raised my children and had three motorcycle shops there and My parents are buried there in the military cemetery … My heart hurts. Please know you are all in our prayers. Hopefully repairs and rebuilding are moving along. Blessings ❤

A lot of the homes in the Cape are built on mounds, which I always thought looked kinda silly when I first came here. Now we see how important that design was!

@@MoMoMyPup10 Good comeback