Coast guard boats are speeding between the chain of islands, slowly evacuating the population of nearly 9,000 people as Pine Island’s bridge was destroyed in the wake of Ian. NBC News’ Blayne Alexander and her team made it to Matlache to hear more from residents.
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So the question about ever seeing the island hit this hard? Please. Obviously not, seriously obvious. Y’all could also ask my neighbors the same in Mexico Beach. Don’t ask stupid questions of people who survived a massive explosion. Really?
Yes, it’s a mess there but Floridians are resilient and many will not leave, even now. I wouldn’t stay because I’ve been in one but in a second I’d be back, even swimming back if I had to, to protect my property. Looters have been noticed on the mainland Ft. Meyers and we won’t let more torture evolve around our lives. Our pieces of land and what we have left after something like this we will protect with our lives. And that’s what everyone who stays on these islands will tell you if you ask.
And it doesn’t matter what color, creed, wealth. Everyone needs help in some way but if our administration wants to make it political? Just leave it to us in Florida. We can do better without separatism.
No matter our color or how much money one has earned, we are here for one another, the supposed “new equity crap” not included. We all look the same if turned inside out and we all have a soul that life can take the wind out of.
What???? Y'all had 5 days to evacuate. There's no way you had no idea what was going on. No one needs a red carpet to set foot on your property and yell "hear ye, hear ye, hurricane Ian to blow your homes away 5 days henceforth!" 😑
Come on
There is now a rapidly growing body of scientific proof and hard evidence with confirms that Hurricane Ian was meticulously geoengineered from its very inception until it was slammed into the Florida coastline.
An evidentiary database is now being created which will serve as a repository of all submitted evidence — scientific, physical, circumstantial, forensic, digital, testimonial and anecdotal — which will be evaluated in terms of meeting the necessary legal standards to convene a citizen grand jury.
Former employees of the various colluding alphabet soup agencies and deep insiders within the U.S. Intelligence Community are encouraged to anonymously submit their secret reports. Only one whistleblower is needed to forever expose the highly organized network of covert weather warfare programs and departments operating within Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
All those poor poor multi-millionaires who decided to stay. Boo Hoo.
I don't believe in Gods judgment on a nation.. But if God were to judge a nation.. it would be America the wicked and it would probably look like this.
Literally THOUSANDS have died from Hurricane Ian in southwest Florida. but no official channel will say so.
Where it concerns a highly destructive and genocidal weather calamity such as the purposefully geoengineered OPERATION HURRICANE IAN, there is always a very complex and convoluted criminal conspiracy at work. The geoterrorists listed below were each co-conspirators in this murderous false flag operation; therefore, they all collude to systematically cover up the true death tolls lest the awakening populace get suspicious.
Don’t think many people in Florida understand they are literally sitting on top of a glorified sand bar.
Complaining because residents didn't listen to evacuation requests?! There are a lot of people impacted – they can't get to everyone at the same time. I'm sympathetic to the destruction of course but they could have done something to help themselves – EVACUATE when told to. Now the manpower that would be bringing them water and other necessities are spending them time evacuating everyone that should have done that before.
Florida Republicans, you should have Criminal Trump fix the bridges and roads with his mind, "Jedi Mind Trick!" The force is strong with him!
Be cool and chill out
Ps if fat Al’s story was true the island would be STRUCTURE FOR GROUPERS TODAY😳
DON’T FALL FOR IT❤️🇺🇸
I have seen comments from misdirected human beings. Making all of it political. If you are a Christian person? Then you don't talk about wanting things for free. And we complain about being used by the corrupt government and they say that we are prejudice, and whatever. I don't spend my time hating people. But. the CNN, MSNBC, and the like help create hatred. They create your stupidity.
PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY
GOES……..
HAND IN HAND WITH FREEDOM❤️❤️🔥🇺🇸
Help is coming but
YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR YOU🇺🇸
Those poor wealthy folks.
Should have not ignored the evacuation notice.
No rest
So great during this time of crisis to see Trump out there raising funds for himself…
THEY TOLD U A HURRICANE WAS COMING. YOU EXPECT TO MUCH HELP
I did not know til today that my Cousin, her two kids, and her husband lived in Pine Island. They sheltered in place and got airlifted out by helicopter from Pine Island Sunday. Everybody is OK, they don't know yet how much is lost.
My sister used to live on Sanibel and Ive been there several times. Was shocking and sad to see all the damage.
Lol
Caribbean codes need to be brought to our coast. Solid conccete with rebar and concrete roofs.
We have lost Florida to climate change and the cost to repair all the damages between now and 2050 will be worth more moving people out of the state.
I have the Ultimate Solution to flooding in Florida!.
Build a Structure the same as the American
National building located in Galveston Texas!.
1 Thousand Hurricanes! Can't destroy that Structure!. Problem solved!.
Never rely on any Govt.
They were told to leave the barrier islands in FL. Plenty of time to call for help or find shelter inland. Every storm I see people stay when ordered to evacuate and then they are either killed or begging for rescue during the storm, risking others lives. No sense at all staying on a barrier island with a big storm like Ian.