In Hurricane Ian’s 'expanding bull’s eye'
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🗓️ 29 September 2022
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Today on “Post Reports,” we talk about Ian’s historic destruction in Florida, and why the story of this storm has only just begun.
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Hurricane Ian made landfall Wednesday in southwestern Florida as one of the most powerful storms to ever hit the United States. Millions of people are without power, and the full extent of the destruction may not be clear for days.
We hear from Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Brittany Shammas, and Brady Dennis about what we know so far about the damage from Hurricane Ian. And why Florida is more vulnerable than ever to these storms, given its growing population and the effects of climate change.
Maps show how millions of people have moved into Hurricane Ian’s path.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Molly, Hennessy Fesk with Washington Post. I am driving from Orlando, south towards |
| 0:12.9 | Fort Myers. I'm on Highway 75 right now and going past a massive convoy of Florida |
| 0:20.9 | search and rescue, national guard vehicles, there's like military vehicles, there's trucks |
| 0:28.8 | towing rescue boats. I'm getting a tropical storm warning as I'm driving. |
| 0:37.2 | Hurricane Ian made landfall on Wednesday in southwest Florida and some people think that |
| 0:42.0 | this could be the deadliest hurricane in Florida's history. Our colleague Molly has been talking |
| 0:47.0 | to volunteers who have been trying to rescue people in Fort Myers. They weren't able to |
| 0:52.1 | reach some of the people who called them asking for rescues on Naples overnight, including |
| 0:59.5 | some women who were, they told me 101 and 98 years old. There was a guy, a 91 year old |
| 1:05.7 | on oxygen who was floating in a flooded house who they were trying to get to. The sheriff |
| 1:12.4 | of Lee County has said that there could be hundreds of fatalities, but I talked to the sheriff's |
| 1:19.1 | spokesman this morning and she said they're still doing searching rescues so they're still |
| 1:23.0 | trying to pin that down. One of the most dangerous things about this hurricane is the flooding. |
| 1:32.9 | Authorities in Fort Myers said late Wednesday that parts of the city were under three to four |
| 1:36.7 | feet of water. To the south and Naples, half of the streets are not passable, according |
| 1:42.2 | to warnings from the county. This has never happened here before. I'm not a magnitude. |
| 1:49.0 | Bill Dentwo-No lives in Naples. Ian devastated his home. He spoke to our colleague Brittany |
| 1:54.7 | Shamness about how this hurricane was so different from anything he'd seen before. |
| 1:59.8 | You know, I've seen trees down in the middle of the road, like trees all on houses, but |
| 2:05.4 | nothing even comes close to this amount of destruction that just happened. |
| 2:13.3 | You know, the story of a storm like this is not over once it makes landfall and some |
| 2:17.4 | ways it's just beginning. Brady Dennis is a climate reporter for the post. |
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