all evacuation centers will be open Wednesday tomorrow at noon our ears
are popping we are in the eye wall of hurricane Ian the winds have now come
on Shore that little house at the end of the dock is about to go that water so powerful
this is the fourth day after Hurricane Ian I'm on
North little which is in Sarasota and as you can tell the area has done pretty well
as a matter of fact better than we all expected we initially thought we were
going to get 18 feet or up to 18 feet of a water surge which never happened and we got
very fortunate we're very grateful because a lot of our neighboring
cities such as Fort Myers of course Sanibel Island Naples weren't so lucky
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pool cages that were ripped apart a lot of people don't have electricity yet I think
half of the people right now in Sarasota have electricity the other half don't but considering
how much worse it was on the southern side or Southern from Sarasota were very very lucky
one small tree cracked but considering everything's looking pretty good my
big worry was the pool cage but it's in standing order the house did pretty well
here's a drone view of Palmer Ranch which is on the southern side of Sarasota and
as you can tell most of the homes are fine most of the pool cages are fine
but there are some downed trees there are some cages pool cages that have cracked
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area in Sarasota and there are a few trees that are down here but other than that you
wouldn't really know that we had a hurricane everything seems like it's in pretty good order
here's the Bayfront area and you can see the skyline in the back if people are out there
enjoying themselves people walking their dogs and just hanging out here in the park so we've gotten
extremely extremely extremely lucky. "Your Observer came out with an article entitled
Fallen trees in water-filled roadways plagued the island Thursday afternoon but homes and businesses
remained largely intact" and that was very true for Siesta Key most homes fit really well but
the big challenge was not having electricity and running water for days I can't stress this
enough but if you're somebody that's looking to move to Florida you're going to have to
learn about hurricanes and know all the safety precautions because it's real the last bad one
we had was in 2017 Irma which initially was projected to strike Sarasota directly
and that never happened just like this time we all thought it was heading towards us directly
and then it changed course so you never know how a hurricane is going to go projections
are just as good as they are I mean they're just projections but they can always change
towards the very end I consider all of us here at Sarasota pretty much very lucky
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