Most Intense Moments from Hurricane IAN ‘s Incredible Back Eye-Wall, Port Charlotte, FL, Subtitles

[@RiverRat904]

Whoever installed that SHOE REPAIR sign needs a raise!

[@HurricaneXplorer]

Ja! I had the same thought.

[@heidismith6148]

I was in my closet right up the street from you and never saw this but heard it, the most frightening thing I've ever experienced, thanks for the video

[@HurricaneXplorer]

Heidi, Thank you for your comment. I am glad you made it through safe. God bless.

[@Legoman775]

I was in Cape Coral in the closet as well listening to our roof being ripped apart, it was the most horrifying experience in my life

[@bluenoser2008]

This is by far the best hurricane coverage I have ever seen. Wow!

[@HurricaneXplorer]

Thank you for your comment!

[@TropmetStormChasing]

Absolutely amazing footage, David! You really had an incredible experience going through the back-half of Ian in your vehicle! Thanks for sharing such an awesome documentary!

[@HurricaneXplorer]

Thank you for your comment.

[@arthurrafferty6816]

Amazing video! Kudos to the team who filmed this! I've watched countless videos and this is the one that comes the closest to showing the raw power of this storm. That took some real brass to sit out there in the middle of it. The worst of the back eye-wall (6:30 to 8:30 in the video) was shot exactly 4.0 miles due south of me. I'm in North Port, just above the Port Charlotte line. It scared the daylights out of me. I was one of the lucky ones with only about 6000 in damages, mostly to my truck which I had parked sideways in front of the garage door. I will say this ... I will NOT ride out another hurricane. If we are targeted in the future, I will do all the hurricane prep, grab the pets, and head inland to get away from it. There were times during the 5:30PM to 7:30PM window where I was certain I was going to lose my home, if not my life. Pretty scary stuff.

[@HurricaneXplorer]

Arthur, thank you for your comment. I am glad to hear you went through it with minor damage. Yes, this hurricane was a powerful one. We are trying our best to document the raw power or hurricanes, so people know what to expect when they are in a hurricane warning zone. Thank you for watching.

[@MoMoMyPup10]

That was the most insane thing about this hurricane -- the back eye wall is _never_ that strong, let alone more fearsome than the front right eye wall. On top of that it was a huge hurricane that did this to so many areas. Those back wall gusts seemed to never end and it was absolutely brutal to go through. Glad you guys made it to tell us about it!

[@titanbrew8493]

We're in SE Cape Coral, after enduring a number of hurricane's since moving here in the early 2000's, I'll never stay again. I'm 58yo, storms don't typically scare me much having been through some bad one's already, but, Ian, yeah, never again.

[@waltblackadar4690]

Art, you and I must be fairly close neighbors. I had a similar experience.

[@matthewmoody2760]

I’ve been chasing hurricanes for 25 yrs as a tree climber that’s the best video I’ve ever seen of a hurricane y’all did an awesome job!

[@HurricaneXplorer]

Matthew, Thank you for your comment!

[@JeepChick814]

Thank you for the video. Please be careful out there! ​SW Florida is still trying to get back to normal. It’s been a rough 7 months. There are many houses with damages (insurance companies completely screwed most of us).

[@HurricaneXplorer]

Thank you for your comment, Nancy. Very sad to hear that insurance companies screwed most of you. The same happened in PR after Maria.

[@judyturner2068]

I watch these storm videos and I have to comment that this is awesome work you did. I for the first time feel like I went through a hurricane awesome work.

[@HurricaneXplorer]

Thank you so much for your comment.

[@michaelespeland]

Incredible! Probably some of the best footage of this storm. A tip though: turn off autofocus when shooting through windows

[@HuracanadoWX]

Awesome footage! I couldn't have possibly been outside during those conditions. Kudos on a well-documented hit. We'll take full dimension of IAN's historical importance over the years. iFeliz Navidad y Próspero Año Nuevo, David!

[@HurricaneXplorer]

Thank you for your comment. Feliz Navidad y próspero año nuevo a ti también. José!

[@Chaufeurse]

David, incredible footage, ty for sharing. I spend 6 months on Pine Island and their destruction is also truly devastating. Stat well.

[@HurricaneXplorer]

Thank you for your comment. Hope everything is well for you too.

[@Him_He_Me]

Best footage lve seen so far David!!! Excellent

[@HurricaneXplorer]

Thank you for your comment!!

[@para1324]

Good report. Glad you all made it out safe. That was massive power.

[@HurricaneXplorer]

Thank you for your comment!

[@ladybolski]

love your narration. great video!

[@HurricaneXplorer]

Thank you for your comment!

[@whimsygrove9971]

Those trees have some deep roots! When the winds picked up during the back eyewall, I thought for sure we'd see some trees toppled. Even in the soggy wet ground, the roots stood firm. Brave Floridians all of you! Everyone who survived that storm should be very proud of yourselves. That hurricane was no joke!

[@jenniferreed9992]

My house right by the Shoe Repair sign. Heck of a storm.

[@rexmonarch2]

Here in Port Charlote, in the peak of the storm our shed tore loose from its foundation and lifted up in the air. I thought it was going to hit the neighbor's house so I ran outside to try and drag it down. Right in front of me it tore to shreds and just blew away without hitting the house. Then I had to belly crawl back into our house because so much debris was in the air it was beating the heck out of me if I was standing up. I was cut and bruised from getting hit by stuff.

[@amandalosada1527]

Yep! When those winds shifted things got even crazier! Everything just came apart at my house

[@HurricaneXplorer]

Oh wow! Glad you made it ok. Yes, that back Eyewall was extremely strong! Thank you for your comment.

[@erickmillspaugh1682]

After reviewing all of the data, Hurricane Ian has been retroactively upgraded to a category 5 by the National Hurricane Center

[@HurricaneXplorer]

Yes, it was upgraded to Cat 5 briefly before landfall but at land fall was Cat 4.Thank you for your comment.

[@rhaellatargaryen5654]

I didn't get the opportunity to chase Ian. I did Michael in 18 and that was insane. I did manage to drive out to Punta Gorda after though and my goodness, what a mess. Some roads were impassable while others you had to just crawl through and hope you didn't rupture a tire. Trailer parks completely destroyed, flipped over like they were toys. People's belongings scattered everywhere. It is very sad seeing people's livelihoods and homes destroyed. Pray for those who have lost it all. May they make a speedy and full recovery

[@brett4446]

This video is very cool. Great work

[@HurricaneXplorer]

Thank you for your comment Brett.

[@aimeemoore1094]

I think y'all are crazy! But, I also think y'all are awesome, brave, amazing !! May God continue to get y'all safe though your crazy wild journeys

[@HurricaneXplorer]

Thank you for your comment!

[@ryantuck8581]

Mr. Ian was my birthday gift last year!

[@HurricaneXplorer]

It was a Crazy birthday present!

[@marklucas7173]

Let's hear it for that Shoe Repair sign !!! just build houses by the guy that made that sign... all jokes aside, great video of a horrible storm. was watching Idelia footage and stumbled on this

[@dankassassin7974]

Awesome to see other POVs of what we went through down here, im glad i found a video of ian down here where i live😊

[@HurricaneXplorer]

Thank you for your comment!

[@tomrizzo1554]

I lived through that shit show videos will never do it justice sustained winds of 150 to 165 miles an hour winds with gusts of 205 miles an hour for 9 hours at least in Charlotte County measured by many weather stations including police I will never stay for another hurricane again it has changed my life forever

[@HurricaneXplorer]

Thank you for your comment . Yes, this hurricane was a monster. Stay safe.

[@mmccarthy9458]

Incredible footage from the road. That is some truck and mods to be able to go through an eyewall like that.

[@HurricaneXplorer]

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[@jshipley001]

Incredible

[@musicloverprince]

You're tough to film this...big contribution but please extra careful next time

[@obxjeepguy]

VERY well done! I can only wish to experience something like this. Our hurricanes in Northeastern NC are nothing like this.

[@donnahalperin2840]

You really don’t!! The aftermath is extremely tough and very sad… A storm like Ian will change you

[@destinypike8587]

Why? All our neighbor’s roofs got ripped off and lost everything

[@robdog1245]

"I thought it couldn't get any worse." *narrator voice* it can ALWAYS get worse Hurricanes aren't something to mess with. I talked to a Hurricane Hunter pilot recently and asked him what the worst storm he'd ever flown in was. He went into both Ian and Dorian, and he said Dorian was 100x worse than Ian. That's hard to imagine.

[@HurricaneXplorer]

Thank you for your comment. Ian was my 10th hurricane and truly proved the saying that "No hurricane is the same". Till then in most hurricanes I had lived through or chased the back Eye-Wall had been weaker that the front Eye-wall, so I was starting to doubt the folk stories that my grandparents, uncles and my dad told me that the "Virazon" the back side was stronger than the front well oh boy Ian really proved them right. From then on I wouldn't sub estimate the back eye-wall of a hurricane. In fact, last weeks Idalia the back side felt as strong as the front side in Perry, Fl,

[@snicksss]

I can't believe I survived 5+ hours of this while stuck inside the eye wall the entire time. I'm traumatized.

[@tornado_genesis]

Amazing

[@lhyork1608]

I think it was a cat 5 !

[@wide_awake]

8 min mark those winds are incredible

[@michaeltubbs3814]

It’s the narration for me.

[@tyle_2860]

Nice video 👍

[@HurricaneXplorer]

Thanks 👍

[@biggiesmalls7939]

When all hell breaks loose for you two, and a tree or a building comes tumbling through your windshield and leaves you both severely hurt, what do you guys do.....? This footage is incredible but I've never understood the logistics of all of this lol

[@avavincent9481]

As we enter into 2023 hurricane season which could be another dangerous one, I'm watching replay of Ian if for nothing else then getting in the mindset. Live on Atlantic Coast on the Mid Atlantic region and we've had a few damaging ones. I urge everyone to please heed the warnings, these aren't your grandparents storms anymore 🙏

[@reaIixx]

Even Idalia as a Category 3 can still be seriously life threatening

[@Legoman775]

this was a Cat 5 hurricane and it was terrifying

[@patbroadway5097]

Wow

[@yomarramos6310]

and i thought the 75 mph winds i got was bad

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

"I am patiently waiting for a break between wind gusts to safely make a turn"--in a hurricane eye wall. Had a hearty laugh there. Was that intentional comedy?

[@HurricaneXplorer]

Thank you for your comment. It is funny but I actually was waiting for a break. Inside the Eyewall, There is always some breaks between the wind gust. The wind is not necessarily constantly blowing at +100mph. In the case of IAN, he wind was always fluctuating between 60, 70, 100 or 145. To answer your question, yes I did waited until I felt the wind slow down a little. BTW, I had anemometer installed on my truck, so I was monitoring the wind speeds. At the time of the turn the wind was 70mph prior to the turn they was gusting to 94mph. A little while after I was measuring 102 mph. The highest wind I didn’t measured because I was sheltering behind the building. My highest wind measurement was 102mph at 8ft elevation from the ground.

[@HurricaneXplorer]

it was an unintentional comedy. For me it was one of the most stressful moment or the chase. As you can see in the video minutes later (minute 7.37) we felt the strongest wind from the Eyewall. I am not sure what would have happened if I had stayed on the highway. When I turned I was behind the trees you can see on minute 7.37.

[@marleneguillory6512]

😮 wow

[@travispowell2471]

So do you have a specialty vehicle equipped to handle the extreme conditions?

[@hebneh]

Meanwhile, the palm trees native to this area remain standing. After Hurricanes Michael and Ian these same palms were amazingly still in place, and alive, in the midst of total wreckage and debris all around them.

[@HurricaneXplorer]

Yes this palm trees are resilient!

[@chriskleinbach-vd5ch]

I thought I was going to lose my car.

[@ridgecrestvarietyshow7324]

There's always someone who just has to get out into it. We had hurricane parties instead. When the eye was upon us, we'd walk out to the front yard, enjoy the brief calm, then high tail it back to safety. To date, we've seen 6 solid hurricanes, including Ian, Andrew, and Charlie. The stuff of "shock and awe." ...Live smart, and be ever ready.

[@rb7818]

"Higher grounds" in Florida? What does that mean?

[@HurricaneXplorer]

Thank you for your question. For me higher ground was ground above 16ft. The hospital area was at 20ft :)

[@maumor2]

Great footage, but you were in the wrong county. You were in Charlotte County, but Lee County had half the fatalities from hurricane Ian. The killer was storm surge not the wind

[@HurricaneXplorer]

Thanks you for your comment, Exactly for that reason I don’t want to be in the lethal part of a hurricane storm surge for storm chasing.

[@eliseolopez2790]

The nearest bunk , basement and hold on and take cover.

[@leenoble8695]

We just finished the repairs to our home in Port Charlotte. No thanks to insurance - all money out of our pockets. I guess you pay to live in paradise.

[@HurricaneXplorer]

Sorry to hear you had to pay out of pocket. Thanks for your comment.

[@Crinkle65]

Great video to watch. But if the intensity of that came as a surprise to you, maybe you shouldn’t have been there. Scary man.

[@HurricaneXplorer]

The back side intensity was the surprise, because usually after landfall the hurricane weakens rapidly and the back side is not as intense and dryer but in Ian wast different. The back side of Ian was equally or more intense than the front side of the Eye at least that’s what we experienced in Port Charlotte and Punta Gorda. Thank you for your comment!

[@armyaquatix]

Right up the road from me

[@HurricaneXplorer]

That’s cool! Thank you for your comment.

[@armyaquatix]

@@HurricaneXplorer im literally less than a mipe from 41

[@dicktater2737]

awesome video......did u ever watch Ren and Stimpy

[@warpthumr47]

To quote Hermione Granger: " What...an...idiot."

[@eliseolopez2790]

No way I'll go out in a hurricane the rush ain't worth the risk

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

This video is ridiculous.

[@lhyork1608]

Is under trees safe? Cause it seems it was all dangerous

[@HurricaneXplorer]

Yes, Never safe to be under trees inside a hurricane!!! I wasn’t under trees.maybe jus a couple of seconds but didn’t stayed under trees. I always try to avoid driving near trees during a hurricane chase.

[@slowyo9645]

12:42 is Punta Gorda, not PC.

[@HurricaneXplorer]

Good catch, forgot to change the location. Thank you for your comment

[@slowyo9645]

All good, great footage my man.

[@Vior775]

Да дурдом это страшно Америка .

[@nightwolf1634]

whats with the whispering

[@eliseolopez2790]

First time in history a cane took building s

[@georgedavis3495]

That's only 100+ try to drive in a wicked 200mph hurricane 🌀you would not have any footage,because may not be alive

[@user-nl7be8pn5o]

Ббб😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

[@SamuelParker-sq4ch]

😅😅

[@zp7839]

Stop tryna take so many dramatic pauses between words bro lol

[@HurricaneXplorer]

English is my second language, thanks for the advice. Not sure what you mean and where .

[@diggerusmc62]

Why do you sound like you’re reporting live from a golf tournament. Or better yet doing a monologue on a 1957 horror movie 😳😳😳

[@HurricaneXplorer]

Thank you for your comment. Have a wonderful day.

[@joseordonez133]

never new that florida will be hit by a high an cat 4 hurricane

[@Spaciovvs1]

This was all over the news this hurricane made landfall in florida 3 months ago it made landfall September 28 and i was also in fort myers in this and the floods where so high

[@joseordonez133]

@@Spaciovvs1yeah ik that but i am saying when i first saw ian getting organize i thought it was gonna be prob a cat 2 or 1 but than i saw the winds speed and that what i knew that floida will be destryo by ian

[@terryswick7393]

Not to mention Charley hit the same exact landfall 18 years ago.

[@sunnydaze2359]

@@terryswick7393 yes Poor Port Charlotte took the brunt of two of the worst hurricanes. After Charlie there weren’t any street signs or any kind of signs left unscathed. I know so many people that lost their business and their homes . It was very sad to see. & no they’re going through the same thing again. 😢

[@philipgladstone1914]

You filmed it and mentioned about the devastation! So why not stop to help afterwards? Or are storms for KZbin more important than human life????

[@HurricaneXplorer]

We actually did rescued an elderly couple from flooding waters between 7pm-7:45pm in the middle of the hurricane winds, and took them to the hospital. We decided not to document this event for respect to the elderly couple we rescued.

[@philipgladstone1914]

That is great that you helped the old couple. But why not stop and help others? However, can you record the emergency services going in to help... I could not have left there and would done everything I could to help!!!!!!

[@gordonbaker9412]

@@philipgladstone1914 Maybe you could just watch the great footage. I was there with the purpose of recovery and there were plenty of us. You need people to document the event just like you need the internet to make your nasty remarks.

[@matthewbrillhart194]

Seriously why be a dick?

[@rhaellatargaryen5654]

I did after Michael. In fact, I came back three times for a week each just to help those in need. I wasn't able to do so with Ian, though. Serious illness prevented me from being able to chase or help. I pray for these ppl and hope they can get back to normal soon...

[@austinharding9734]

meh, more of a youtuber than a storm chaser, storm chasers go outside

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

If you stepped outside in 120 mph winds you'd be killed in seconds.