Hurricane IAN: Rampage Across the South (2022)

Come with Josh Morgerman as he hunts down dangerous Hurricane IAN-from its brutal Category-4 impact in Punta Gorda, Florida, to its final landfall two days later in South Carolina. This epic journey brings you right into the eye of a legendary American hurricane twice.
CHAPTERS
Intro 0:00
Impact 1: Punta Gorda, Florida 0:07
* Hitting the Road 0:19
* Obsessing 3:20
* Front Side 11:27
* The Eye 16:56
* Backside 22:04
* The Next Day 30:50
Impact 2: Georgetown, South Carolina 33:27
MUSIC SELECTIONS (all licensed via Pond5):
"Serious Times" by Ewan Macleod
"Slow Monday Blues" by piccadillyCircus

[@nikkinicklus7587]

Ian really said hold my damn beer im about to tear shit up😂

[@evanjones9602]

As it turned out, it WAS a category 5 for a few hours just before landfall… Excellent video Josh!

[@aprilbrooks1026]

yeah Ian sure was a CAT 5 Hurricane for the a brief period of time max sustain wind speeds peaked at 160 MPH before it downgraded back to a CAT 4 Hurricane right just before landfall on southwest Florida 🌀🌀

[@Jmeon4eva]

@@aprilbrooks1026 max sustained were 161mph at 6800ft, max winds (with gusts) were 181mph at 500-1000ft. As we all know the winds are bad enough, but the SURGE was bad. At one point it was projected to go directly over where I live before it took it's eastward jog after landfall.

[@josephpacelli3691]

It did hit Florida as a Cat 5 storm

[@alexisramongeronimo4491]

​@@josephpacelli3691Nope, it weakened just before landfall

[@hjs1378]

Enough with the exaggerating AND the spreading of misinformation! Ian was a low-end Cat 4 hurricane. FACT! I believe what the final analysis of the NHC says. NO CAT 5. Only thing bad was the storm surge right next to the ocean...as to be expected. So please stop with the "my hurricane that I went thru was so much worse than the hurricane you went thru" BS! This is not a competition people. So speak the truth! You want to see the epitome of a truly horrific Cat 5? Look up pictures of Andrew in 1992. Strengthening as it plowed across South Florida and had imbedded cells within the bands that were so powerful scientists are still puzzled and trying to figure it out. Won't find any video because it roared ashore in the middle of the night like the deadly beast who dares not show its face! And don't even get me started with Camille! NHC can't even downgrade it to where it should stand because of all the crying from the old-timers! But if you're interested in facts, here is a good article to start with: extremeplanet.wordpress.com/2012/06/20/hurricane-camille-was-not-a-category-five/

[@joled498]

I lived through Ian. Live in North Port Florida. We were in the wall of the eye for over 10 hours straight. 155mph winds. 20inches of rain. Lived through Hurricane Charley in 2004 in the same town. Hearing the wind actually growling during Ian was terrifying.

[@Cupid-9127]

same we are there also

[@nickcliman8660]

Likewise. It was like demons howling I have never heard anything like it before.

[@sunnydaze2359]

Right. Living through winds of 150 miles an hour for a few minutes is bad enough., but we did have it for hours and hours straight. It really felt like it would never end.& you wondered how anything could survive this ! I think a lot of people are kind of still traumatized a little bit, especially about any future hurricanes coming now. And some people are not even still back in their homes yet..

[@Saltfly]

A good friend also lives in north port. His house got trashed. Said it was unreal.

[@hjs1378]

10 hours straight?! 155mph winds?! LOL! Source please.

[@DianaDeLuna]

My sister was really excited to see the eye in Fort Myers, but never did. Instead she was in that front eye wall for 5 hours...and then the water came in and her car floated away.

[@jamebruno5640]

was waiting for this for months thank you Josh from Tampa, FL

[@ThePr8head]

Ian was like an 8 hour tornado!!!

[@DanielDaniel1]

It’s a bucket list item for me to spectate a strong hurricane.

[@terryboldenjr.3555]

News Reports: Not the best time to go outside in the Eyewall Josh: 🎥🌧️🌬️🌧️💨🌬️🌧️💨🌧️💨🌧️

[@aaronlowe620]

Florida is always the go to place for knowing how to prepare for a monster hurricane. Ian taught us how we don't really have things down as much as we thought. Over 100 people dead and deadliest continental United States hurricane since Katrina.

[@Jnewny30]

This was an amazing production josh. I remember watching live streams as Ian was beating down SoFlo and just thinking man this is absolutely intense. The backside of Ian was massive!

[@anthonyanderson2880]

Josh, I love your coverage of all the hurricanes you chase. The build up, in the middle of it and the afterwards makes for a great adventure. Thanks for sharing, love your work.

[@dronexfun8469]

Note to self: buy hip waders. Thanks for sharing another rad vid man.

[@BGTech1]

Thanks so much for this fantastic footage!

[@TigerDreamer7284]

We were complacent the night before, as the wind/rain wasn't too bad. Then, next day every thought we had went blank... Thank You for this video.

[@iCyclone]

I'm glad you made it through. 👊

[@JamieAlbero]

I live in Tampa, had to drive to Ft. Myers about 48 hours after to rescue my niece. She road it out just over the bridge from the beach. Their car and apartment were flooded, and they were running low on supplies.

[@boogitybear2283]

She’s an idiot. I laugh at people who have cars, live by the water, and decide to ride out Hurricanes. It’s like stupid can’t be fixed.

[@DownShiftDrew]

What Do You Want A Sticker?

[@user-xt4ok4on7o]

This why Florida got heavier buildings cause the storm keeps hitting it so does SC

[@Power_unkowngang]

The fact Myers’s beach got 15ft of surge

[@Power_unkowngang]

But sorry for your niece that time

[@HurricaneXplorer]

Great video Josh! Love the footage of the palm trees on the water front. That back Eye-wall was crazy. It was a crazy feeling driving over the Charlotte Harbor bridge into the Eyewall. Thanks again for your awesome video. 👊

[@matthewtv5729]

Hurricane Ian was the most memorable hurricane in 2022 on Atlantic basin. Great footage and intercept this hurricane, Josh 🌊🌀👏👍

[@kelandaidansmom]

Ours was Fiona. She walloped Nova Scotia, PEI and parts of New Brunswick.

[@keinnahmeili5585]

Thank you for all your hard and incredible work Josh! I live in Bradenton FL and this hurricane was a beast.

[@houseofoddity]

This is mind blowing.Hurricanes/cyclone and typhoons most certainly scare the nuts off me! You are literally more of a man than I! The actual scale of these storms is mind blowing. Makes me think of what horror the giant red spot would be like. 👏🏽🤯

[@laytonwhiting4634]

This dude's hurricane vlogs r always fantastically done!

[@iCyclone]

Thank you so much, Layton. 👊

[@carmine_]

Love these videos, haven’t watched one since last year.. nothing crazier, scarier and more fascinating then Mother Nature, hurricanes, earth and the universe.. legooo.. hurricane season is around the corner

[@cwb4280]

Amazing production as always Josh. Thanks for sharing your adventures with us. Your dedication to document and study these events are always entertaining and informative. Plus it has to be one hell of a rush to feel the power of these beasts!!

[@iCyclone]

Thank you so very much for these kind words. I put work into these videos, so this means a lot to me. 👊

[@cwb4280]

Oh you are very welcome. I’m anxiously awaiting your next one. I also love to nerd out and read your analysis on your website on the different storms. Amazing details and I encourage others to check them out.

[@iCyclone]

@@cwb4280 Oh, sweet! Thank you. I am always psyched to hear that folks actually read those reports. That's some deep-nerd stuff right there. 🤓 😎

[@dragonrider4253]

The crazy thing is, I never lost power. I live in Orange County, and it just flickered a few times. The longest time it was out completely was about five seconds. I don't know what Duke did, but whatever it was, it made the electrical system a bit more robust. I lost it completely a few weeks later because a wire got blown into a tree or something, I heard the fault happen. It survived this storm only to be taken out by a short to ground.

[@brucemartini2288]

It lasted SO LONG, because as IAN made landfall it slowed to just 8 mph. Ian slowed from 14mph over Cuba, to 10 in the gulf.

[@arcane3548]

Great documentation of one of the deadliest and most expensive US hurricanes since a long time! There was much speculation of an cat5 upgrade after this event. But after I saw satellite images and a pressure of 936mb i was skeptical. The eye wasn't a complete donut, it was a large and sprawling system. Generating cat5 winds having such "relatively" high pressure would require a nuclear gradient - which it hadn't. Of course, still very impressive and undoubtly a massive event.

[@iCyclone]

Thanks for the kind words. I agree with you-- it was a strong hurricane but no Cat 5. Not even close. And the gradients I measured in the core were frankly pretty tepid. I don't understand why folks have been gunning for an upgrade.

[@alexisramongeronimo4491]

Got upgraded to Cat 5 for a brief time and then weakened to a Cat 4 just before landfall

[@MesoHunterYT]

I been excited for your hurricane Ian video! Great video thus far! You weren't to far from where I set up, I've mentioned I am a convective guy by nature but influence from friends and subs I went after Ian and let me say this, it was a huge eye opener to the how much power a hurricane can posses. Enough about that what I do want to say is great work and epic footage brother! You're imo and prob many others are the best hurricane chaser in the game! Great work and cant wait to see what 2023 have in store for ya!

[@iCyclone]

Thanks so much, John, for these incredibly kind words. I appreciate it. 👊 Yeah, once you've tasted the magical power of a hurricane, it's kind of... addictive. P.S. I subscribed to your channel. Cool stuff!

[@MesoHunterYT]

@@iCyclone yes it is! And thank you sooooo much that means a lot! 👊

[@michaelgrullon7451]

wow, that video is another wave. GREETINGS Josh!! waiting for the remaining videos

[@michaelgrullon7451]

I will rate the iCyclone videos soon, waiting for Lisa, Orlene and Fiona's videos on KZbin... I'll see it at noon on KZbin TV

[@vipprman]

Sitting outside during the eyewall of a high end Cat 4 is crazy

[@iCyclone]

Agreed.

[@sbhogale002]

It was truly a monster. Just I thought it was going to end, it hit back with more force. The back side of the hurricane was crazy. It must have been a very thrilling experience. Great job 👌. Thank you for taking such a great risk and making such amazing video. All the 39.5 minutes were worth it. Stay careful, take care and continue making this amazing content.Truly loved it ❤️

[@iCyclone]

Thank you so much for these kinds comments-- I really appreciate it. I'm glad you like this new, longer style of video. Thanks. 👊

[@josueuitzil1949]

amazing Ian's impact, loved every video of yours, you're amazing Josh greetings!

[@iCyclone]

Awww, muchas gracias, Josue! 👊

[@maggotpraiswater]

I live in Bartow, Florida and lost my house due to losing my roof. This hurricane fooled us all!!! And after the eye passed and the winds calmed I think we had a tornado pass close due to sustained winds gusting hard enough to knock a tree down. I was supposed to go to punta gorda myself but my wife asked me to stay home.

[@Rochi47]

I love the new chase videos, they are longer and have more dept to it.

[@iCyclone]

Thank you very much for this feedback. I've actually been wrestling with this very thing-- should I make these longer ones or go back to the shorter kind? It seems like my longtime viewers seem to like the added details. Anyhoo, thanks for chiming in.

[@tvold9204]

@@iCyclone 100% keep the long ones

[@cafepuschkin3955]

Another beautiful video - Thanks for giving everyone such privileged vantage points.

[@xdrazormon454]

23:10 be careful immediately go back for safety that was so Dangerous, I live in Fort Myers and we lost electricity for a week after the hurricane hit my city and specially my house

[@TropmetStormChasing]

ABSOLUTELY blown away, Josh!!! It's always so awesome to get to see different perspectives on a such a historic event like Hurricane IAN! It's crazy that we were chasing so close to each other, I feel like we may have even passed each other a couple of times driving back and forth between Punta Gorda and Port Charlotte. But, WOW, what an amazing documentary you've put together for your intercepts on this storm... and I truly am loving the longer, more detailed format of your recent videos. That back-half really did take everyone by surprise, I definitely wasn't expecting it to be as crazy as it was... and you had a front-row seat, right on the water too!!! I also love that you got to maneuver around a bit while all that was going on. I didn't leave the garage I was in until well after dark so, at the time, I never really got a good view of the impacts around the area. These communities definitely built back better after Charley, and I'm sure that really paid off this time around.

[@NationDisasters83]

I already watched Jose M Garcia Storm chase of Hurricane Ian enjoy it now I stumble upon iCyclone version of Hurricane Ian which I also enjoy watching his Storm chasing videos I didn’t forget you TropmetStormchasing you also have some great awesome storm video that I enjoy as well.

[@ericmoore571]

I grew up in Florida. Right in Punta Gorda. Now I live in NYC. I do not miss hurricanes at all! I know they do hit here but not as often as down there. So many people here want to move down there and they think these storms are just some big thunderstorm and they are the ones taken by surprise by the surge

[@joey6451]

ive NEVER seen a windy eye before!😱

[@richard1835]

We were waiting for Ian here in Tampa but just like Charlie it chose to land further south. We had 75 mph winds in Tampa but nothing like thet experienced in SW Florida. Thank you for another great storm chase. Thumbs up

[@georgesmith4184]

I was in Fort Myers and left before they gave mandatory evacuation. We were totally flooded out and lost everything! Thinking I had my retirement place😢-sold when we gutted out our villa! Went back to Indiana and will never go through hurricane again! Snow bird for me going forward…can’t ever experience this!

[@Gavin-ii7ho]

Thanks for showing us

[@mikesweatherdata2667]

You were so close to the Hurricane Charley Monument.

[@iCyclone]

I didn't even realize!

[@drodes]

This was great, I really enjoy the longer format. Keep up the great work!

[@Psycho-Skeleton]

The eye wall is where the fun part begins

[@jonthegamerboy]

Been waiting for this video for months, seeing your posts during all the action really showed me how intense this thing was at landfall! Glad to finally be able to see the full thing!!

[@katiek4680]

Excellent video, Josh! Echoing everyone's positive comments about the format. Loved getting the "full picture" of the storm and of your chase. Being a south Floridian, this one was a nail biter. Esp at first with Tampa in the crosshairs. We all know how vulnerable that city is. (And the sheer devastation in Ft Myers, Pine Island, etc. was awful.) Was also sad to see all the flooding in Georgetown, SC -- my husband's family is from there and his grandfather was actually killed during a "mild" hurricane in 1959 while driving from Charleston back to Georgetown, after a tree blew into his car. Always a reminder to drive very carefully during these storms.

[@iCyclone]

Thanks so much, Katie! I keep worrying I am including too much, but feedback like yours tells me maybe it is cool-- that folks are kind of interested in the work that goes into a chase. P.S. That South Carolina hurricane of 1959 was GRACIE-- a full-on Cat 4! But the main impact was down near Beaufort, so yeah, the conditions would've been milder between Charleston and Georgetown. You're right, it is a reminder to drive carefully-- in *any* hurricane, or even a tropical storm. It doesn't take much wind to knock an old tree down, and if it falls on your car in just the wrong way, it's game over for ya.

[@HeyChickens]

I love all the beforehand details Josh! The way I see it, if your videos were only wind and rain, there wouldn't be a story to it. The wind and rain are the icing on the cake, but when you think about it, it's the bread part of the cake that sets one cake apart from another, not so much the icing. Your cakes always have such good quality bread in them! As you are doing the narrating, I begin to feel the buildup of excitement, the uncertainty, the anxious suspense of what is going to happen next. I think you could actually include even more of the buildup narrative than you already do, and it would be awesome. You could always trim out some of the longer, less important pieces so as to make a shorter version of the same chase. I especially get psyched up when your narration transmits fear. I know, seems a little counterintuitive; you want to be the fearless chaser... But the fear factor gives true perspective of the actual dangers involved, and it helps us appreciate the value of your work even more. And I know some people get impatient when waiting for one of your videos, but I can imagine how difficult it is to get a good quality full-length video ready, while at the same time trying not to overlook any important details of your next chase, which oftentimes is the very next day or so with a double or triple landfilling storm and other storms on its heels.

[@k3nny_mm2secondacc]

Finally hurricane ian thank you ☺️❤️

[@ADDICTEDTOFORECASTING]

legend says if they call for Tampa first it misses thank god. If the backside was worse, Imagine how well that water would have pushed into Pinellas and the bay truly horrific... They said over 70% stayed.. thank god it missed and I pity the ones we lost in this truly historic storm

[@HeyChickens]

I think you meant to say "pity", lol

[@ADDICTEDTOFORECASTING]

@@HeyChickens thanks for the correction man

[@leoscaremporium2007]

I live in a mobile home in Tampa, and I was honestly worried that I was going to lose my home before the forecast shifted. We still got some 80mph wind gusts and lost some trees but we really dodged a bullet.

[@markpalavosvrahotes5575]

Tampa is due in the next couple of decades.

[@sherylmccormick]

I live on the coast in Saint Augustine, FL and we experienced flooding and some damage from Ian, as well. Nothing like SW Florida, thank goodness.

[@heavenlydays2838]

In East Jacksonville. No real rain and no real wind. What happened was a NorEaster cut into the west side of the circulation..Cut off Low..on the hurricane.

[@markpalavosvrahotes5575]

Well I will be honest with you. I rode Ian out in a gas station close to 75. During the first eyewall the canopy was fine. During the second the canopy was in spikes. Now my theory is for a hurricane to do this in such as bizarre manner there had to be a mesovortex. Now those bring the wind speeds up about 15 to 30 mph up from the regular hurricane. Now I do believe that during this mesovortex winds could have been at the cat 5 level but only for a brief period of time.

[@HiIexist2803]

I live halfway across the world from Tampa that I used to live there and I still have friends there, and when Ian was still on a dead set towards Tampa. I was truly scared for them, and then, when it moved south I felt better than that. It wasn’t hitting my friends directly but I still feel bad for the over 100 people who were killed in the people who had to suffer through it.

[@debrakleid5752]

I used to live in Tampa and when I did for the 5 years I was there we had Hurricane Irma. In 2004 I lived in Orlando and Charley was supposed to make landfall in Tampa so people in Tampa evacuated to Orlando because Orlando is right in the middle of the state. Charley changed his mind and hit Charlotte County which is where Punta Gorda is and it’s about an hour and a half to 2 hours away from Tampa on the west coast of Florida and he then went northeast and hit Tampa. How ironic. Then we got Hurricanes Francis and Jean a few weeks later. When Ian was supposed to hit Tampa those that lived in Charlotte and Lee Counties were relieved as well as Sanibel Island so very few people evacuated which shocked me because if anyone lived there when Hurricane Charley hit they remembered how severe that storm was. He was also a cat 4 but a smaller storm. A much smaller storm and he was catastrophic. Ian was much much bigger and even if it did hit Tampa directly they still would have gotten hit pretty bad. Unfortunately since he hit farther south in almost the same spot as Charley we got Hurricane Ian very badly and I now live in New Smyrna Beach which is in Volusia County on the east coast of Florida but we got hit by Ian very severely (not as bad as Charlotte and Lee Counties since they got a direct hit at landfall). We got the northeastern part of the storm which is usually one of the worst areas of a hurricane with the exception of the eye and around the eye such as Lee and Charlotte Counties had. We got about 25-30 inches of rain and all of our streets were under water and some people were told that they didn’t live in a flood zone so they had no flood insurance but because I how much rain we got they ended up getting flooded. Some homes had almost 5 feet of water and we had 5 fatalities and many counties on the west coast and central Florida didn’t have any fatalities. The rain and wind were crazy and the beach erosion was really bad with homes teetering over the edge but didn’t fall into the ocean. Thankfully for Lee and Charlotte County they didn’t get Hurricane Nicole last November or they had very little of it. We unfortunately were not so lucky and she gave us a ton of wind and rain and the homes teetering over the edge from Ian finally ended up in the water after Nicole blew through and finished what Ian started. Hopefully if this happens again those living on island such as Sanibel and near the impact zone will evacuate and not assume that the hurricane won’t hit there because meteorologists said it wouldn’t hit here. Hurricanes rarely follow the paths that they are supposed to follow and will make a sudden turn. Hurricane Jean did that in 2004 (Jean and Francis came the same year after Charley so we had 3 hurricanes in one summer) when she was supposed to go into the Northern Atlantic and stay there. She made a u turn and still came and hit us.

[@austinsullins2975]

I live in Tampa and was horrified, feel blessed, and feel horrible for the people in Fort Myers.

[@dittekovacs5835]

I was so terrified when Ian was on its way to SWFL. While I reside on the west coast my parents reside in Port Charlotte. The one thing I remember my parents telling me many who lived through Charlie said no way it’s headed this way to us and not to Tampa. The residents were right. Even now almost a year later so many people are picking up the pieces. I was thankful for Wink news and ABC7 southwest Florida for the coverage but this video was also great to watch as it shows the destruction of Ian. My thoughts and love go out to all those who were affected. Hoping no more hurricanes head to SWFL this season. 💕

[@thetadgt]

It's amazing that houses get swept of their foundations and 99% of the palm trees are like just another day in paradise. Been through three and that is my experience. Glad i paid extra for 18 inches of reinforced concrete walls in my new well now old house. Took a direct hit from Charley, lost a few shingles that was all.

[@tvold9204]

This video was amazing as always. I'm loving the new format, keep it up Josh!

[@iCyclone]

Thanks so much for this feedback. I am psyched that you dig the longer format. Cool.

[@iantanakastormtracker215]

My name is Ian and I was so surprised when The 3rd most costliest hurricane is named after me😂! Anyways, just saying great work on the video, Josh! That eyeball was so windy that it seemed like a category 1. The backside of the hurricane was also pretty epic because there was a lot of wind and destruction during those hours!

[@brandonlemke2034]

Loved seeing Hurricane House to open the video. Get back over here so hurricane season can start.

[@iCyclone]

Aww, thanks, Brandon. 👊 Coming back home to the 'Sip soon!

[@RobloxTheUnknown]

35:38 Is it me or does anyone get the chills of the bell that is ringing just before everything goes south in the storm?

[@iCyclone]

It did feel sort of like an omen. It made me stop and think.

[@RobloxTheUnknown]

@@iCyclone To be fairly honest, hearing a bell ringing during a tropical cyclone can be one of the most terrifying moments, related to when the doomsday clock says "time's up" and then the full force of the storm hits. IRMA 2017 - Heavy rain and gusty tropical storm winds started WELL before the center arrived. There was nothing in the backside when the center passed, just a light breeze. No official pressure reading available. SALLY 2020 - Similar to Irma, Sally brought heavy rain nonstop, but contrary to Irma, it did not have a large wind field. Similar structure to Irma tho; heavy rain and breezy winds on front side but just a breeze on the backside. NICOLE 2022 - This was by far the most interesting one to me. Rainbands started moving in by 12:30 PM Eastern Time, and the remnant N eyewall came over us with heavy rain and gusty winds. At around 6 in the morning, I woke up, checked radar and saw that I had penetrated the left side of Nicole's remnant eye. The calm lasted for about 1-2 hours, before gusty winds kicked back up and intermittent storms moved over the area. Although Nicole was hurt real bad during its journey over Florida, it still had structure. The bones were still in place. There was a front and back side with what was left of Nicole. Even better, I recorded a pressure of approx. 998 mb in the remnant eye.

[@ianthemechanical829]

@@iCyclone I rang that bell to warn you.

[@reasonandlogic1024]

As a person from charleston, hearing bells is normal to the point that you tune them out

[@JulioCesarr57]

Nice vídeo! Greetings from Brazil! 🇧🇷

[@keliahx445]

You know what absolutely sucked about this was that this went on for hours and hours and hours...and as the southern eyewall blew northward it was WORSE and that went on for hours and hours hours.... My neighborhood was utterly destroyed here in Fort Myers

[@houseofoddity]

Your passion and drive for meteorology and chasing is equally as engaging and exciting for us watching. You channel alone has allowed me to be educated, engaged and enthralled. In my opinion this channel is in the top 1% of all channel in KZbin. I’m a huge fan. Thank you for taking us with you! 🙏🏽🌊⛈️🌪️🌩️

[@iCyclone]

Wow, this is the nicest thing anyone has said to me all week. 🙂 Thank you so much for these kind words. I'm delighted you enjoy my channel so much. 👊

[@houseofoddity]

@@iCyclonethank you for saying that. But you deserve the praise. I have watched you for years now and it never gets boring. It would be a dream come true to be able to experience what you experience. We don’t get many hurricane and supercell storms etc here in England ( although we could probably match the rain 🌧️😃😃😃).

[@19tjw]

Monitoring my sister's safety in Bradenton as a Baptist Hospital of Miami EM response pharmacist

[@manosm2003]

The backside was the most intense, this destroyed fort Myers 😐😐😐😐😐😐, decent footages from punta garda, woooow🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩

[@hebneh]

The palmettos are native to this area and many of them come through hurricanes looking completely untouched, which is astounding when you see what abuse they went through. Neither wind or salt water kill them.

[@peightonspeth6857]

Good work Josh first recognized you from weathernation. Definitely you are brave taking footage of Ian and walking through that water

[@dv2033]

I'm watching this in North Port, I look up and still see downed trees and damage from Hurricane Ian

[@HeyChickens]

Excellent documentation Josh! I love how you leave in all the initial thoughts about how it was originally expected to go to Tampa. I was fooled too, but something deep inside me kept saying that Tampa almost never gets a direct hit, so there must be something wrong with that forecast. On Monday I was thinking it would go more towards the big bend area. But once I saw the forecasts inching southward, I knew it was going to come really close to Fort Myers where I live, and I knew that the storm surge was going to be epic and would catch a ton of people off guard, because we have always dodged any serious storm surge here since Donna in 1960. And they had called for big storm surge several times, but the trajectory of the storms or their size and speed saved us from the surge every time. But this time there was no mechanism for us to get off the hook. Huge, slow-moving storm that had no chance to go south of us. I stayed in Cape Coral for the storm. The winds were really strong, but the weird thing I noticed is that without much of the heavier rain to accompany those winds, those winds seemed a lot less dramatic than what other storms produced. The damage definitely confirms that the winds were ferocious, but the lack of heavy rain (in the Cape Coral part of the storm) made it seem less vicious. You got the best show up there in Punta Gorda with all the heavy rain to accompany the wind. Down here in Cape Coral it was mostly a naked hurricane- lots of strong wind, but mostly mist and light rain except for a few bursts of heavy rain that occured a few times. I did also see lightning and heard thunder quite close by one time though.

[@iCyclone]

Thank you! I am so glad you liked the video. And thank you for these very interesting comments. I didn't realize that until I read your comments here that the right eyewall was, as you put it, so naked. Then I looked at the radar imagery and I see what you're saying. The hurricane, while strong, did not have that classic symmetric, closed eyewall and clean eye that you expect from a strong Cat 4. You guys might not have gotten the best rain-and-wind show where you were, but the storm surge was massive where you were, no? As you can see in my video, it was pretty minimal up in Punta Gorda! I was surprised how minor the surge was where I rode out the storm.

[@tvold9204]

I'm pretty sure the winds also weren't quite as strong in Cape Coral. Anyways, I was in Golden Gate (a few miles east of Naples) for Ian. No eyewall here, but I know what you mean by "naked" because it was almost the same here. Barely any rain but we had gusts of up to 80 mph and suffered lots of damage to vegetation and fencing with some roofing damage as well. It was kinda weird. Also I got to stand in 60+ mph gusts for the first time in a while. Even caught a flying tree branch!

[@HeyChickens]

@@iCyclone Yeah for sure, the storm surge was really bad all around Fort Myers. Even way upriver in East Fort Myers there were some houses that got 4-6 feet of water in them. What was weird was that out in Matlacha (pronounced Matt luh sháy) (the little fishing community between Pine Island and the mainland) there was a house right on a canal, and I asked the homeowner if his house flooded. He said no, but that it came really super close. His house looked like it was only maybe 5-6 feet above the canal water level, which was connected directly to the Gulf. So I guess the further north you went, the duration of onshore winds dropped off very dramatically and created the large storm surge gradient from south to north. There in Punta Gorda the winds wouldn't have become onshore until after the eye passed, and even then the wind was paralleling a lot of the coast rather then funneling the water directly inward like down south. I would have loved to have come up there to Punta Gorda and met you, but my parents and brother and sister would have been worried sick about me in this particular storm. But one of these days I absolutely have to go and meet the legendary Josh Morgerman!

[@HeyChickens]

@@tvold9204 The "official" news reports that came out after the storm said the highest wind gust was 143 mph in Cape Coral. But I have a hard time believing that the winds would have been less intense further north where the convection was so much more intense. I do believe the 143 mph report for Cape Coral, but I think it had to be higher than that somewhere around Punta Gorda, Port Charlotte, or the Cape Haze peninsula. I saw some crazy video someone shot from inside of a running vehicle parked in the street inside a mobile home park on the Cape Haze peninsula. It looked much stronger than what I witnessed in North Cape Coral. I just think the news outlets didn't do enough genuine information-gathering and verifying in a lot of those areas.

[@tvold9204]

@@HeyChickens the report was 140mph and deemed to be untrustworthy. I do agree with you on the fact that winds were stronger north of there but the highest reliably measured gust was only 132 weirdly enough. That was only during the weaker first half though. All the stations got knocked out before round 2, which was stronger.

[@davidsul7052]

You should have ducked into your Faraday cage car when you heard that high voltage arc, and waited for a while to make sure that thunderstorm portion was downstream before exposing yourself to the sky. That's what I did. I don't mess around with electricity. I got out into the wind between the thunderstorms. They go by quickly in hurricane eyewalls. I intercepted IAN's eyewall and left portion of the eye at the Myakka River Bridge just south of El Jobean. Eyewall wind coming directly off the water of the river and a by type area. Total whiteout at times. A few thunderstorms. a few lightning ground arcs too. That's where IAN's strongest winds hit as the cast and barrier islands were in the weaker right fromt quarter It weakened some before reaching Punta Gorda.

[@iCyclone]

You do you! I am cool with my approach to chasing.

[@akshatpalagaming2695]

Woah.... Look at the backside of Ian's eyewall.... Intensity at its extreme... He (Ian) was definitely a monster... And thanks Josh Morgerman for sharing such an intense footage with us... But how did you feel being inside those intense winds? Maybe scared and surprised....

[@Sushi2735]

You are scaring me to death!!! This was a terrifying storm. I just don’t get putting yourself in that kind of danger on purpose. Even though it’s long over, just watching this makes my hair stand on end. I live on the Georgia coast, we are so lucky they seem to blow past us on the way to SC.

[@debrakleid5752]

I live in New Smyrna Beach (NSB) which is in Volusia County on the east coast of Florida and we got hit really bad by Ian. He was huge and we got the northeastern part of Ian and the NE section of hurricanes are notoriously bad. We got I think between 25-30 inches of rain and we had 5 fatalities. Ian caused major beach erosion and homes were teetering over the edge after Ian and when Hurricane Nicole decided to come through in November she finished the job that Ian had started and some people lost their homes to the ocean. In regards to Sanibel Island I was really surprised most people didn’t evacuate even though the hurricane was supposed to hit Tampa. In 2004 we had another hurricane (I was living in Orlando, FL) that was supposed to hit Tampa and just like Ian he was a category 4 hurricane but instead of hitting Tampa he veered further south and then went east early so be hit Punta Gorda. Almost the exact same path as Hurricane Charley and he caused catastrophic damage so I was very surprised that certain areas in Lee and Charlotte County didn’t evacuate especially after what Charley did in 2004. Hopefully the next time this happens people living in those areas would evacuate. Ian was much bigger than Charley and Charley hit us in Orlando at almost a cat 3 storm. Then 2 weeks later we got Hurricane Francis and a few more weeks after that we got Hurricane Jean that wasn’t supposed to hit land at all but instead of going north and staying that way she made a u turn and came back south and then west and bam. With the climate change and warmer weather we will eventually see a lot more hurricanes and more catastrophic hurricanes. The noise Ian made at times sounded like a train and we were afraid there was possibly a tornado with it. We got hit the worst I believe of all of the counties on the east coast and central part of Florida.

[@varunmusicchannel1548]

Love from 🇮🇳 India.

[@kutie_hiiiii]

Nice! The footages are scary!

[@diontaedaughtry974]

Fantastic footage, Great video 👍👍

[@marcytillman25]

I got so excited to see you had released this video earlier, and so I saved it for my post-hike Saturday evening watch. :) Great video and documentation, as always. The look in your eyes in the front side of Ian when you were in the parking lot says it all. Awesome coverage. What a storm! Thanks for sharing all of this with us. Oh, btw, I can totally tell you are from CA when you called I-75 "The 75." It made me lol :)

[@iCyclone]

Ha ha ha! Yep, I have some Californiaisms in my speech that will never go away. Thanks so much for the nice comments, Marcy-- I am so glad my video provided you good entertainment on your Saturday evening. ♥

[@marcytillman25]

@@iCyclone It was a perfect way to cap off an adventurous day. 😊

[@luiscetina1994]

Wow I'm from México...!!!

[@donnahalperin2840]

Ian was my 10th hurricane. 3rd major. Horrific… I’m really super nervous about this season in sw Florida😢

[@Jason-..-]

Hurricane ian was fascinating.

[@markobrutus776]

Great job.

[@heavenlydays2838]

TY Josh! WTW Indeed .

[@michaelueberroth9553]

My favorite of you videos are of hurricane Michael.

[@johnmeador56]

Great video Josh!

[@ryancrooks123]

Holy Cow With Hurricane Ian Winds At 156 MPH Which Is Near Category 5 Strength And With Wind Gusts Of 215 MPH Those Buildings In Punta Gorda Florida Even The Hotel You Stayed At The Hotel Even Survived With No Damage Wow Punta Gorda Those Buildings And The Hotel You Stayed At Those Buildings Must Be Stronger Than Hurricane Ian Those Buildings Could Have Straight Up Muscle

[@aprilbrooks1026]

not only Ian was near CAT 5 intensity in fact Ian was a CAT 5 Hurricane for a brief period of time with max sustain wind speeds of 160 MPH before making landfall on southwest Florida as a CAT 4 Hurricane according to the NHC 🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀

[@X2K01]

MASSIVE W content. Always waiting for more of it 💖

[@tenskull998]

From what i know, highlands county (where i live) got its first ever extreme wind warning alert due to this hurricane. By the time it got to us, it was a weak category three hurricane i believe.

[@AlejandraHernandez-bi3pq]

When I was a baby, we were living in Dallas Fort Worth. We had a hurricane Ian.

[@ianthemechanical829]

I am so sorry guys.... Not only that I hope you guys have recovered well from my storm! - from a person named Ian

[@sunnydaze2359]

It’s been nine months since hurricane Ian & there isn’t one person that I know that doesn’t still have damage from the storm that hasn’t been fixed yet. I I’ve lived in Florida for 25 years.& had never been impacted by any storm in those 25 years until lien. I now have a new respect for these storms that I never had before. We recently had a very bad rain storm.& almost all the people who hadn’t had their roofs done suffered more damage. So we will not be fully recovered from the storm for years to come.. I’ve never seen anything like it & I pray that I never will.

[@sunnydaze2359]

Ps : don’t worry Ian we’re not blaming you. 😉

[@kartozus5223]

Oh class , vidos right on my birthday !

[@iCyclone]

I made this just for you. 😄 Happy Birthday.

[@kartozus5223]

@@iCyclone Thanks . Despite the fact that Ian was the strongest Category 4 hurricane, his winds were relatively weak due to his torn asymmetrical eye, however, due to his large size, a strong storm surge was provoked due to which catastrophic damage and a large number of deaths were caused.

[@GorgyPorgy65]

No way I would be anywhere near water... The one which came in Miami Beach (*I think it was), and the water came up during the eyewall...terrifying.

[@Town_Country96]

I mean I know this is a dumb question, but you think you could surf out there during this? 28:33 😂😂 like I know the waves would suck but just imagine being out there😂🤙

[@MrSidsLife]

When i filmed cyclone mandous like this I was kind of scared about the breaking windows of my room But gained courage as i saw ur channels 🔥🔥🔥💯💯💯

[@iCyclone]

Thank you. Just please be careful! Windows can break in a cyclone. See my video for Hurricane ODILE in Mexico.

[@MrSidsLife]

@@iCyclone yes i saw. It was scary. When i was outside during cyclone Vardah i saw my apartments glass roof exploding and flying everywhere. Scary🥶🥶

[@patrickhugo6196]

A very good video

[@crackac]

Been anticipating this one

[@SuperTyphoonTracker2003]

Would you like to track other storm beside a hurricane, like cyclone or a typhoon?.

[@iCyclone]

I've chased my typhoons. Check my channel. There are many typhoon videos. I have also chased a cyclone in Australia.

[@theonlinechannel3240]

I can say Myrtle Beach although didn't get the eye, did get 50+ mph winds and had storm surge. Would technically count as my first Chased Hurricane.

[@Tankeyes117]

Ian just barely went south of me

[@jakesawesomevids7908]

I have been waiting for this video

[@iCyclone]

Hope you dig it!

[@mg_steve4830]

😱omg

[@jakesawesomevids7908]

About time

[@k3nny_mm2secondacc]

I hope you get 100K subs soon🤗

[@triton115]

Amazing video there, except you forgot to videotape, in the aftermath part, what the storm did to the hotel you stayed at, not to mention that Tiki hut.

[@Spaciovvs1]

The wind in the eye is crazy