Sunday, October 2, 2022

hurricane ian update from NYT

Emergency managers in Florida's Lee County held off on telling people
to flee the area of Fort Myers and Cape Coral, where Hurricane Ian hit
hardest.

Jason Andrew for The New York Times

Now authorities there are finding mass deaths

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iirc the tracking of this storm was very tricky - we tweeted that NHC
should mention that on their projection map - they did in the text

local officials will probably say that initial tracks from NHC aimed
at Tallahassee and then Tampa

hurricane season is not over yet

Saturday, October 1, 2022

Ian update - RSW Airport

RSW Airport is a base of ops for Natl Guard helios - large hangar has
cots - white mobile command post truck there - 2 chinooks and 2
blackhawks and 1 lakota seen on TV2 news report

LA County deputy shoots guy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXBjg8nIaP0

no one can believe the bad shoot and the horrendous dispatchers

YouTube comments are very interesting - like a international truth tribunal

uscg video of rescues - hurricane ian

https://youtu.be/hMmoOWuqHi4

we posted at least some of this before

insertion via helo with helmet cam

10K unaccounted for - Lee County Florida

https://youtu.be/8FtgT9RPWCA

8:00 on this report from Sept 30 2022 - 10,000 unaccounted for - not
necessarily missing

helo tour of Fort Myers Beach that got hit the worst - mobile homes
get wrecked the worst perhaps - although we suspect that salt water
inundation will not be good for any of these buildings - even the
highrises (hello Dade County highrise collapse)

Hurricane Ian

Hurricane Ian update from Sand Island

https://youtu.be/pOUnv8huw7A

15 minute video

0000 trees debarked - Redd Timmer says 150 to 200 mph winds required
to do that

400 ish - the big homes dont have a scratch on them - someone built
them very well

800 chinook comes in for landing

900 ish his car wrecked - electronics wrecked

1000 ish maybe 2nd chinook

1200 mention of an ems case - metro dade fire there (not shown) -
alzheimers victim wandered off in night

5 more USAR TFs heading to Florida

https://content.govdelivery.com/attachments/USDHSFEMA/2022/10/01/file_attachments/2286033/FEMA
Daily Ops Briefing 10-01-2022.pdf

no death totals for Ian - 9 hospitals being evacuated in Florida

looks like the Tidewater are in VA - and - eastern and western Florida
- are looking at continued catastrophic flooding

MA TF 1 is going to Orlando FL