While authorities strongly urged people living near Florida’s coast to evacuate ahead of Ian’s landfall, some people decided to stay put and hunker down. Linda Blomquist, who lives in Punta Gorda, Florida, joins News NOW to explain why she and her family decided to ride out the storm at home and what it was like when Ian made landfall.
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Hurricane Ian ‘Seemed Like It Was Never Going To End’ After Making Landfall In Florida
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My kids and I survived Ian. We live in Nokomis (Venice) and we just got our electricity back.
This was the scariest storm I’ve ever experienced in my life. It lasted for an eternity!
Well they voted for you know who, and probably still think global warming is a communist ploy. Little sympathy for Floridians.
Yes, it was very hard to watch, that gusting wind kept circling around in the same areas for hours, and hours, would not leave, did not know when to end. Very very hard to watch.
🙏 For people of Florida.
In front of power of mother nature, humans are so small, next to nothing.
If Trump was still in office, he would've taken his Sharpie marker and rerouted the hurricane back to Bermuda and kept the US safe. He could just think it away, much like thinking documents to declassify them, and that would stop the hurricane. If all else failed, he would've dropped an atomic bomb into the eye of Ian and decimated it. He would've done something to keep it away.
Sleepy Joe doesn't have the awesome powers that Trump does. This is all on Biden!
Jackie! TRUMP2024
Some people also had no choice but to stay
I totally agree with title… it went on for so long
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#katrina
I swear people want judgment day… You abuse us every day of our lives in front of God before judgment day and no one was a racist or fascist only the devil is Satan you are the accuser you’re the greatest divider on earth and we were slaves and almost every nation we want judgment day Russia and Iran she’s threatened to nuke America we don’t care what they do will be caught up in the clouds to meet Jesus Christ our savior king and you won’t ever abuse as a racially discriminated against does it ever again
Dos estrellas juntas . El dream team 👍👏👏
No one should live in wood or trailor homes in Florida
Good storm shutters r the best investment
Punta Gorda got it bad yrs ago too. Charlie Hopefully they built better structures than back then.
And that's why you don't want to live in a trailer in Florida
God Bless everyone ❤️❤️❤️🙏🙏🙏
yeah let's move to Florida and live in a single wide and wait for the next YEARLY hurricane.
Let's see how many MAGA hats are floating
👏
😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣🤣
I’m glad I live in Cali ☀️
Thank you Jesus for punishing stupid Trump supporters! Amen!!
Ian was a joke to to most of us..
Where’s Jackie???🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤡🤡🤡🤡
my family is in st James city on Pine island, no news anywhere and what I have seen is total devastation, wiped out. please please update on Pine island.
This is gods rath for deathsantis's little stunt.
HURRICANE IAN – 2022 %%
Hurricane Ian hit like an atom bomb
Consuming the helpless in it's path.
The waters of the deep surged forth
Flooding everything with it's wrath.
The best of the brave was seen by man
While rescue crews were helping others.
They risked their life and laid it on the line
To save our sisters and brothers.
May heaven show mercy upon the lost
Never to love, laugh, sing or cry
God bless every man, woman and child
Who before their time had to die.
Tears are the raindrops of the soul
Shed by all who cry
Though the eyes are wet and swollen
With time and patience they dry.
By Tom Zart
Most Published Poet On The Web
The Storm is Over……Florida must join Texas to build a New Republic
Hurricanes are awesome
Shame on that gov for spending Floridians money on criming in Texas
He has messed with millions of life's.
Wait he has no shame , nazi scum is his ideology
I can even imagine 😢💔
That thumbnail 🤌frikin picaso over here in the middle of a tragedy
And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring. Luke 21:25
Catagory 4
USA BLACK GVRMNT DID IT
So you backed over a stop sign?
Nice
Just bus some illegals there to clean it up
i slept the whole storm nothing at all happened in a 69 rv
Saw a vid that Florida was prepared. Guess they lied
Too bad it didnt take out DeSantis. Maybe next time.
It just passing by
The earthquake does not have your number so you are safe right?