Hurricane Idalia's raging surge in Cedar Key, moment by moment | About That

Hurricane Idalia brought a record-high storm surge that flooded much of Cedar Key, a small collection of islands off Florida’s Big Bend coast. Andrew Chang takes us through the storm moment by moment, from the hours leading up to the surge to the long recovery ahead.
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[@OptimisticHominid]

CBC News is great. Thank you for all of your hard work.

[@NoGoodHandlesComingToMind]

I agree completely. This was a disproportionately amazing mini-doc for what is (relatively speaking) a really tiny town.

[@maryellenflyingfrog7505]

Cedar Key has angels that inundate the island and clean, clean, clean! People that have visited here once, make th3 trip and volunteer for the dirty work. The churches provide food! The streets fill with volunteers sent all over the island to help each and every person in need! Cedar Key is amazing in crisis! Lots of experience…❤

[@JoniMitchell-qi6hr]

How many hurricanes with that category made landfall in that area in the past80 years? Does anybody know?

[@robertsarakowski1414]

Zero. The last hurricane that hit Cedar Key was over 100 years ago. I live a couple hours away from Cedar Key and we vacation there all the time. The news loves to blow everything out of proportion. The people that live there have been living there for generations and know what the risks are. Their whole economy revolves around fishing, oyster and clam farming. They will rebuild and already are.

[@crowbone8136]

Google does, try using it.

[@timmjackson]

@@robertsarakowski1414 Hermine?

[@maryellenflyingfrog7505]

@@timmjackson HERMINE was Cat 1. Idalia was 3 or 4. But what changes things drastically is time day. If surge comes during high tide, which it didNOT, it can add feet to the height. Five hours one way or the other and downtown would have been over rooftops. Cedar Key was fortunate, believe it or not.

[@JoniMitchell-qi6hr]

Then not take😮😢 type Oh!

[@saadologue]

This is terrible 1 year later it is completely wiped out 😢

[@johnmain4811]

This ain’t hurt more than anything

[@marywebb1138]

I thoroughly enjoy your videos. Thank you

[@thomasryan2864]

Glad to say our team (faith hope love disaster recovery) is a part of the recovery!! Thank you to all of the people that live here they been amazing!!❤❤

[@Jhossack]

Just Like the counter offensive. Destroy the russian army, but you're losing if you don't take a trench, today.

[@hypsyzygy506]

If they're lucky, they might be able to move back into their homes before the next hurricane, but there's no guarantee.

[@JoniMitchell-qi6hr]

Maybe the military could use it to dry dock their war boats and ships Or they could use it for planes With raised runway's incase of floods

[@hypsyzygy506]

The raw sewage in the streets and in the homes is a major problem.

[@Jhossack]

The error in your analysis, as in most non professionals, is you ignore the mind boggling losses the Russians took from day one. At no point did the russians look like they had a break-out capacity. Top end military analysts were saying Russia and strategically lost within a week of the start. Your just making things up.

[@Jesterian]

Was the Russian army involved in the storm hitting cedar key?

[@jasong428]

The BBQs taking place in that area last night and tonight are surely legendary. Just terrible enough to make them famous for a few days.

[@maryellenflyingfrog7505]

Jackie and Dan Kiss have a bbq truck they’ve been feeding folks from twice daily. New Cedar Key neighbors.

[@JoniMitchell-qi6hr]

Does that area have higher ground ?Other than house stilts?😮How long does it take for a hurricane to form and then surge upon cedars mainland?I would take sell it back to the states and move😮

[@maryellenflyingfrog7505]

High ground is around Community Center. City Hall and all emergency vehicles stage there. Some homes went under water up to the rafters. Some had no damage at all but yard waste. Everyone is out helping! The influx of volunteers is mind bending! Genuine Community! We started prepping hard Monday, Tuesday. Wednesday morning was the storm surge. Downtown finally receded Thursday. It’s Saturday and the clean up is amazing to see! Damage along the waterfront is catastrophic! Buildings demolished! Shattered and carried blocks away. I have been in more hugs than I can count. You can see it on the faces. People are in pain. Some will take this as their last, some first and last hurricane. Some will never leave. Cedarkeyitous. It’s terminal.