BEND REGION AND
HURRICANE MATTHEW LEFT
DEVASTATION ALONG OUR COAST.
>>> A BUSY ONE FOR US HERE IN
FLORIDA.
A LOT OF ISSUES AND TROPICAL
STORMS, TOO.
SO I WAS IN THE MIDDLE OF BOTH
THE HURRICANES AND THEN ABOUT A
MONTH LATER WHICH WAS 50 DAY
AGO, HURRICA MATTHEW, I TEAM
E STEINHATCHY, A SMALL FISHIN
VILLAGE A LOT OF US FORGOT ABOUT
HURRICANE HERMINE.
WE GOT HIT HARDER BY MATTHEW,
BUT WE CAN'T FORGET PEOPLE OUT
THERE GOT HIT ARE VERY, VERY
HARD, ESPECIALLY YOU KNOW, THE
THEY JUST DON'T HAVE THE
INFRASTRUCTURE THAT WE HAVE.
>>> YOU KNOW, I KNOW YOU KEPT IN
TOUCH WITH A LOT OF PEOPLE OUT
THERE MANY OF THEM, THEY DEPEND
ON TOURISM.
AND THAT IS HOW THEY MAKE THEIR
LIVING.
A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE STILL
REBUILDING.
>> THEY ASKED ME TO SPREAD THE
WORD THAT, GO OUT THERE IF YOU
DO WANT TO DO A VACATION MAYBE
INSTEAD OF GOING TO THE OLD
ORLANDO THEME PARKS, TAKE YOUR
FAMILY TO STEINHATCHEE.
>>> IT IS FUN, I'VE BEEN AND WE
WENT TO CEDARE LAST YEAR AND
SPEND A FEW DAYS THERE AND I
LOVED IT.
WE WENT OUT ON ONE OF THE
AIRBOAT RIDES AND I LIKE YOU
SAID IT IS SOMETHING DIFFERENT
INSTEAD OF DOING THE SAME OLD
THING THEY REALLY NEED THAT
MONEY THEY REALLY NEED THE MONEY
COMING IN THOSE PEOPLE THE NEXT
MORNING THIS IS THE SEA HAG
MARINA, THE NEXT MORNING THEY
WERE ALL OUT THERE AND HAND
SLEPT THROUGH THE NIGHT AND
THEY'RE UP REBUILDING.
THEY'RE SO RESILIENT AND YOUR
LOOKING AT JACKSONVILLE ALSO, WE
CAN'T FORGET ABOUT HURRICANE
HURRICANE MATTHEW.
THAT IS THE FRESHEST STORM THAT
IS THE STORM THAT AFFECTED MOST
OF OUR VIEWE
THE SEAWALL THIS WAS IN
JACKSONVILLE BEACH, NEPTUNE
BEACH AND ST. JOHNS COUNTY GOT
HIT REALLY, REALLY HARD.
MICK HER'Snd -- MICK LEY'S
LANDING SOME PEOPLE ARE STILL
NOT ABLE TO MOVE BACK INTO.
AND IT IS EASY FOR US TO FORGET
IF YOUR HOUSE WASN'T THAT BADLY
DAMAGED BUT THERE ARE PEOPLE
STILL HOMELES INCLUDING
OFRIEN
TRYING TO RECOVER IN ST.
AUGUSTINE WHERE YOU'RE SEEING
COVERAGE NOW, IMPORTANT LESSON
LEARNED HERE IS SOME PEOPLE
MIGHT NOT HAVE HAD VERY MANY
ISSUES, MAYBE LIVED IN CLAY
COUNTY, MAYBE LIVED IN
MacCLENNY WAS WIND AND RAIN
AND YOU WERE FIND YOU NEVER
KNOW, THERE WERE PEOPLE THAT
WERE IN QUEENS HARBOR, FOR
EXAMPLE, PONTE VEDRA BEACH THAT
GOT HIT REALLY, REALLY HARD,
POTENTIALLY LIFE THREATENING
THERE AND THANK GOODNESS NO ONE
WAS KILLED BY THE STORM, WE DID
LOSE LIVES IN AFTERMATH AND
CLEANUP IN NORTHEAST FLORIDA
WHICH IS CERTAINLY A TRAGIC
SITUATION BUT THE THING IS, BE
PREPARED.
YOU NEVER KNOW THESE STORMS