Florida After Hurricane Ian

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The New York Times

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🗓️ 30 September 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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As the sun came up over Florida yesterday, a fuller picture began to emerge of the destruction that Hurricane Ian had inflicted on the state and its residents. The Category 4 storm washed away roads, bridges, cars, boats and homes. The damage is so extensive that, according to the state’s governor, Ron DeSantis, it may take years to rebuild. Guests: Patricia Mazzei, the Miami bureau chief for The New York Times; Richard Fausset, a Times correspondent based in Atlanta; Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, a national news reporter for The Times; and Hilary Swift, a photojournalist.

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0:00.0	The name is Captain Jim Rushing.
0:03.2	It looks like it's 5.52 pm, Naples, Florida.
0:06.9	I got flooded out of my house early this afternoon.
0:10.8	The day began with a lot of wind.
0:14.2	The power went out at like 7.20.
0:16.6	Cranked up the generator.
0:19.1	Had the whole house run in air conditioner is fine.
0:22.0	Messed around, making some food, looked out and saw
0:25.7	puddles in the road and I'm like, yeah, big storm surge.
0:30.0	Isn't that something?
0:31.5	Then urban leds in the storm surge.
0:34.3	They never get it right.
0:36.3	And then I'll send the roads wet and I'm like, hmm.
0:40.2	And I look and it's got a little current to it.
0:44.1	I go about my business messing around,
0:46.3	watching TV 15 minutes later, starting to creep up the driveway.
0:52.6	And I'm like, oh boy, I'm getting ready.
0:54.8	If pay for my complacency here.
0:59.3	And I go into my shed and everything's floating.
1:03.7	It's way steep in there.
1:05.3	Gas cans, leaf blowers, coolers.
1:10.1	It's just like someone turned on the water faucet
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