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Timelapse of the 15ft Storm Surge from Hurrican Ian hitting Ft. Myers beach
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Timelapse of the 15ft Storm Surge from Hurrican Ian hitting Ft. Myers beach
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Holy shit.
Dammit, I know I left my house around here somewhere…
Holy shit! Those waves on top of 15’ surge….
Damn, nature. You scary.
There were people in that house, you can see them at the door around six seconds in.
According to their gofundme, as the house broke free they escaped out the window with their dogs and held onto a tree. One of them lost their grip and were pushed away by the storm but managed to climb into another house. All survived.
The gofundme link with the story is under the pinned video comment.
Mind blowing to think that people stayed there.
Serious question: why do we keep rebuilding Florida? It’s been made clear this is gonna keep happening…
Terrifying. My sister lives on Sanibel full-time and did not evacuate. Thankfully, she’s safe and out of the state now, but their entire lives were washed away.
Misread how long the video was and thought it was only 30 seconds. Prematurely thought “Oh, that’s not that ba… oh… OH… OH SHIT”
It just kept going
That’s closer to a PowerPoint than it is to a timelapse
I’m actually glad we are seeing decent storm surge video from this event.
For years, news media (especially The Weather Channel) have been ramming this “wall of water” thing down our collective throats. You warn people of the same thing, year after year, and since the wall of water doesn’t exist, people ignore the warnings.
It’s not a “wall of water” which sounds like a wave created by a water park machine. A wall of water sounds survivable. Ooooh a 6foot wave? Sounds fun!
It is progressive coastal flooding that is wind driven and generally not survivable, unless you are able to move to a higher floor in a secure building.
Once the water achieves a certain depth, the winds are able to create waves in excess of 6 to 8 feet on top of 10 feet of flooding. That’s fucking scary. Maybe you can swim, but you cannot counter a large wave slamming you into a building or tree.
Not sure if someone posted a google map link. If not, here it is:
https://www.google.com/maps/@26.4515225,-81.9509597,3a,90y,191.54h,82.55t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sMI7RWhD8ylaqNuDqUVRDtg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192!5m1!1e4
This is not technically a timelaps. It is a series of videos over a period of time. Still very interesting and thank you for posting.
Somewhere under those 15 feet of water was a operational Waffle House.
People who have never been in a hurricane have no idea what it is really like.
This is one of the best videos of the impact of a storm surge that I’ve ever seen. This is how 6000 people died in Galveston in 1900.
I like how the trees in the foreground knew EXACTLY how tall they needed to grow in the period of time they had.
Holy shit, is that why palm trees evolved like that??
If reincarnation is real I choose palm tree.
Would a concrete house on stilts have survived that?
the best storm surge vid I have ever seen…incredible and terrifying…
Ho Lee Fuk
The damage flooding inflicts on a home [or car] is only mildly preferred to one set ablaze. A car exposed to water damage, and recovered, may start and drive for days or weeks after a storm only to present all kinds of problems *down the road.* We’ll see a *flood* of these cars show up on used car lots…buyer beware.
That’s a truly astounding storm surge. That said, this is not a timelapse.
Props to the cameraman for keeping it steady through all of that.
Sometimes nature just makes you sad. There’s just not much that you can do to avoid it.
Imma just keep shoveling, actually battery snow blowing, the 3-8 inches of snow we get from time to time in Pittsburgh, thank you. Never had a hurricane, tornadoes are VERY rare, heat waves don’t last too long, nor do cold snaps, dry spells are manageable, water is plentiful.
I’ve walked down this street a bunch of times over the summer of 2009…This is terrifying.
“It is not that the wind is blowing, it is what the wind is blowing” Ron White.
In this scenario would the house eventually sink?
I feel like you could edit this down to 1 minute and make it an ad for whatever company made this camera
Does anyone know how native Americans survived these kinds of storms throughout history? Or native Caribbean Islanders? It seems so impossible without modern infrastructure and warning systems.
There just isn’t a lot of high ground in Florida. I see this and I imagine it would have been impossible.
Palm trees are pretty gangster.
..the house floated away, but the telephone poles stood firm..go figure.
3 palm trees like the last folks at a music show who have done acid, still dancing even tho the music is done
Honestly wish this was a typical time lapse and not an edited transition cut.
It’s humbling to think about how much energy is invoved in raising 100 trillion gallons of water by 15 feet – or however much water that is.
Wow, the entire time I watched that I visualized myself holding onto one of the 3 trees at the bottom left and asked myself if I could survive that if I bear hugged one and held in for dear life. I’m grateful I don’t have to find out. My thoughts are with everyone affected by this hurricane:(
It’s not a time lapse if you cut out parts of it. -.-
Don’t want to go to the Ocean? Well don’t worry, the Ocean will come to you!
For anyone who needs to read it:
This isn’t a time lapse. A time lapse is when a clear continuous sequence of single frames is sped up to indicate/preserve apparent motion. So when you watch footage of a flower blooming, it’s often a time lapse to make it look like the motion is happening at that speed.
If we’re being charitable with terminology, this is kinda sorta a montage, but it’s more just cross fading cuts.
Still paying off these film school loans!
In Japan they know not to build houses on the beach.