Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico - Eyewall Winds, Drone Footage Before and After, and Aftermath

With my DJI Phantom 4 Drone, I recorded how Puerto Rico looked before Hurricane Maria hit, the drone footage was shot in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico. Afterwards, I recorded the damaging winds within the eyewall of the hurricane, my filming location for the winds was in Cupey, San Juan. Afterwards, I show the aftermath of the storm with two short videos of the road conditions and some more drone footage of the damage in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico.

[@HuracanadoWX]

Spectacular footage! Gives a great perspective on how brutal conditions where in the south side of San Juan. I estimated high-end Cat-3 (if not Cat-4) damage along that area. Thanks for sharing this awesome video.

[@tvold9204]

Those winds are definitely at category 4 intensity! That is crazy!

[@pichardo2227]

Increíble la fuerza de ese huracán! Tremendo drone video 👍

[@josedeleon9426]

great video I am from Calle Sauco Urb San Ramon en Guaynabo y mi familia sigue viviendo ahi; estuvistes bien cerca con la camara.. thank you for sharing..

[@LAJOA681]

En el min 5:53 veo mi casa! wao gracias x compartir d otro punto d vista..🤗💪👍

[@richeyrich]

Wow! You're a great DJI pilot!

[@Strayawayfelix]

Excellent video, I miss my Puerto Rico.

[@edal61]

Excelente. Gracias por compartir, conozco toda esa área.

[@KeeganLeahy]

The amazing thing is that this was on the north coast... imagine the devastation near the landfall location on the south coast, with onshore cat 4 winds

[@EthanBWeather]

That is intense! Wow

[@marvinpurcell2775]

At 4 to 6 am is where those winds peaked. Atleast over here in Juncos. It was crazy! It was like a whistle and a old man whispering. It was awful

[@beautifulrelaxingmusic92]

나무침대와 매트릭스위에 떨어지는 빛나는 빗방울이 저에게는 아름답게 보이네요. 소재가 색다르게 느껴지는 영상과 빗소리를 들으며 고생하신 님께. 감사드립니다.

[@jcextranow]

It seems as if the trees suffered the worst damage and of course the power lines but it looks like some of the buildings withstood the constant building pretty well except some of the wooden structures. Also the cars seemed to have stood up to the wind pretty good as well.

[@hebneh]

The individual residences shown in this video fared much better than some of what occurs in Florida, particularly regarding roof damage.

[@SR-71BlackbirdA2]

Nearly everything fell, and many palm trees stood. I think they've evolved to withstand hurricanes.

[@strekorodriguez9619]

Matheus Ribas They have something that makes them really strong to stand in the wind, unlike banana and papaya trees, banana and papaya trees can fall with a tropical storm

[@edhartgrove7552]

Matheus Ribas -You are correct, Matheus. Palm are quite "rubbery", which allows them to bend quite a bit before breaking. And, the relatively few leaves at the top don't act as a "wind brake" like other trees. It's sort of like the difference between holding a mop handle up in the wind, as opposed to holding a sheet of plywood.

[@richieodonnell2712]

It seems like palm trees have a really interesting looking and strong root system

[@user-th8rw4eg6m]

The palm that was on my house got uprooted soo 🙄

[@america8164]

WOW reminds me of Hurricane IRMA I Live in the heart of Orlando, FL it was my first ever major Hurricane 😨😱 !!!!! IM originally from EL Paso, TX & San Antonio, TX I'm use to Major Hail storms & Desert storms besides heavy rain !!!!!

[@empotterbaum9272]

crazy to know this happened and living here for bless PR

[@dronexfun8469]

That house looks like it was constructed with hurricanes in mind. Thank you for the vid. I hope everyone you know is o.k.

[@tubeyouxer]

DroneXFun - most middle class and high middle class houses are

[@NathanIrizarry1]

DroneXFun yeah we can’t have wood or it’s torn to shreds

[@ponoescalation8912]

DroneXFun in the Caribbean most houses are cause storms like this will shred houses just made out of wood

[@Boricua733]

Most houses are. We were middle class and I went through hurricane Hugo in 89 also a cat 4 I still remember the sounds What we were more worried about was storm surge. I was 10 at the time.

[@mariasantos-lo8rz]

Massive beast! Omg

[@ScuttleProductions]

Thank you for sharing. I'm producing a video on the hurricane as we rebuilt some houses in Las Marias. Would you be willing to share this video so I can use some footage? I'm trying to tell others what's going on in Puerto Rico. Thank you and God bless you.

[@SB9P4]

Que drone usaron para vista aerea?

[@olgadiaz4980]

Puerto Rico Mi cuna, se levantara con mas fuerza que el huracan Maria.💪👍❤️🌴🌺⛱️🎵🇵🇷🇵🇷

[@xabierb1056]

Hello, I'm currently editing a documentary for a school project about the recovery process of a community in Humacao, Puerto Rico. I saw your footage about Maria making landfall, and I was wondering if we could use it in our piece. Thank you for your time.

[@aileenmarotta5297]

How many days after Maria did you record the video? Some of the pools look clean, mine was a disaster for 2 months...

[@stephenjones6030]

For the most part, everything looks pretty good.

[@blade1990]

1:29 plant trying to dance

[@dadsdocumentary9461]

Hello. How can I contact you about the possibility of licensing some of your footage for a documentary?

[@PsychoSmith]

I saw your comment on another video that you have 4k footage of the inside of hurricane Michael's eye. Are you planning on uploading it to this channel?

[@Stefan1126]

PsychoSmith correct

[@yeseniariveratorres]

Dios nos protega

[@rockyrockaway3621]

One of the thing's i learned with this hurricane was, Dont ever park your car next to any tree or light pole before a Cat 4-5 hurricane.

[@Peeter8]

¡E.A.-rrrayoo!

[@carazo321]

On the bright side, I can see my house on minute 7:05

[@DodgyDaveGTX]

Wow that must have been one hell of an experience. What was your favourite part?

[@rexthehusky6966]

No part bieng without light and water for 3 months isnt fun at all horrifying winds arent fun either

[@27julioo]

What kind of drone is that? U went pretty far.

[@Stefan1126]

julio martinez it was a DJI Phantom 4 :)

[@jimhuffman9434]

*sarcasm* I don't see any reason why people would evacuate...it looks perfectly safe...

[@carmenriosmodel4904]

Pero aquí no se ve nada

[@gvboq]

monte atenas

[@anasanchez1911]

Eso fue horrible

[@amykinder1458]

I’m in California jelous? I have no hurricanes

[@crispy319]

Devastating, but not at all close to the 155 mph eye wall winds

[@raylowkey1724]

Nicholas Sahagian bullshit dude , they even had a recorded 186 mph gust.

[@strekorodriguez9619]

Ray LowKey Obviously they had damage, not like a tropical depression hit them haha, but in Yabucoa it was stronger, also in the mountains even in Camuy.

[@agearmaster1]

The Doppler radar build to withstand 165mph winds exploded...

[@justinharris5195]

Azure Gearsts either it wasn’t meant for 165mph winds, or more likely a gust.

[@adrainbright4294]

whT ppl fail to remember irmA hit first and weaken everyone everyone was like hey we made it until unfortunately that was just the beginning.)

[@RayTorresReinaldoTorresJr]

I wonder who the hell thumbed this down. Probably Trump. Thanks for sharing these scenes.

[@tubeyouxer]

Ray Torres - why Trump?

[@JudithSanchez-ht6jn]

Ray Torres Puerto Rico is in Caribbean island and from the beginning of time has been like that. Maybe thousands of years were a winter, the earth 🌏 is constantly in changing. We’re lucky that we do not have earthquake.from a Puerto Rican who left the island more than 50 years ago. Puerto Rico will arise as the same islands Guadalupe and Virgen island was worst.😢😞

[@Partsunknown426]

What an ugly place.

[@justinharris5195]

Ya it's just got hit by a hurricane obviously it's going to be ugly dumbass.

[@RICHIE_RICH89]

Not even close to Florida hurricane

[@NathanIrizarry1]

raging bull m8 go to hell irma was 140mph on florida maria was 165mph and people are still without power after three months stop talking shit dumbass

[@strekorodriguez9619]

Nathan Irizarry fact, Irma was 125MPH and Maria 155, like DUH tf does he mean.

[@ManuelGuzman067]

caged lion maria was a monster storm idiot

[@pairadice3186]

Weak footage....waahh waahhh wwaahhhhhhhh.

[@Stefan1126]

GHOST intheshell i'd love to see your footage :) you must've done a really good job!

[@pairadice3186]

Stefan1126 ....no your absolutely wrong.....it would have sucked ass, im terrible with a camera.