One Thing: How Hurricane Ian Got So Strong, So Quickly

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🗓️ 2 October 2022

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Residents of southwest Florida are cleaning up after Hurricane Ian slammed into the coast as a deadly Category 4 storm last week, causing catastrophic damage and widespread flooding before later making landfall again South Carolina. We look at what role climate change may have played in the storm’s ferocity and how some cities are reconsidering how to rebuild with that in mind. Guest: Bill Weir, CNN Chief Climate Correspondent To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:27.0	Hello, how are you today? Good. Hey, we're coming by and letting everybody know that you're in a mandatory evacuation situation. You're aware of that?
0:40.0	This is Detective James Smith. He's with the Tampa Police. And last Tuesday a
0:45.5	CNN team followed him as he went door to door.
0:48.3	Letting residents know this was their last chance to get out of town ahead of Hurricane Ian.
0:55.6	Where are you heading to? Oh, we're going to our my wife's nieces. Okay, good.
1:00.4	Yeah. All right. We got a house and everything.
1:03.2	At this point, the storm was well offshore, but it was packing some serious winds, 115 miles
1:08.4	an hour at the max, which is a category 3.
1:11.6	Even so, I was struck by how calm these interactions in Tampa were. I guess Floridians
1:16.2	are used to this kind of thing to some extent. Well, within hours, Hurricane Ian's max-sustained winds
1:22.3	jumped to 155 miles an hour.
1:24.8	That's just shy of a category 5.
1:27.3	And then Southwest Florida really started to feel it.
1:37.0	We do have breaking news.
1:40.0	Hurricane Ian has now officially made landfall
1:44.2	305 PM as a category 4 storm.
1:48.1	I believe.
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