Florida man moves after Hurricane Ian, but now faces Helene

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Tyler Shore moved away from Fort Myers after witnessing the destruction of Hurricane Ian in 2022, finding what he thought was a safer spot in Tallahassee, but now finds himself preparing for Helene.

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00:00I'm Storm Chaser Mike Scantlin on the ground in Tallahassee, Florida here.

00:04This is the Mike Blankenship Skate Park.

00:05This is a city of Tallahassee Park here and the sand is going out just about as fast as

00:10they can bring it in and dump it and multiple truckloads have come in here since I've been

00:13here in just the last couple hours and I did speak to local resident Tyler Shore about

00:17his preparations for the hurricane as Helene approaches tomorrow evening.

00:21We had a tornado here in May and it was at 7 a.m. and only lasted for a half an hour

00:26and it was hellish enough and devastated my local neighborhood off Jackson Bluff in

00:31the Railroad Square area, just College Town area.

00:34Just to see how much a tornado could do in such little time, I'm really scared to imagine

00:37what a 6 plus hour category 3 plus hurricane could do here.

00:42I can't even imagine.

00:44We live kind of like on a middle of a slope neighborhood and that's where we got the sandbags

00:49for the backyard.

00:50It tends to flood up back there but I don't know, honestly my biggest fear is trees falling

00:55down because our whole, I mean that's the reason we moved here two years ago is because

00:58of the beautiful, it's like living in a forest but at the same time we're living in a forest

01:01and that is about to be 130 plus mile an hour winds here potentially so I guess I'm going

01:05to see what the latest, you know, AccuWeather updates are at that point and if it looks

01:10like it's going to be worse than a category 3 then yeah, we're probably going to go to

01:14Valdoz to somewhere northeast.

01:16Now like Tyler said, he's more worried about the wind damage here than the rain and the

01:20flooding but there's a reason for that and there's a reason they moved here two years

01:24ago is because they lived in Fort Myers for Hurricane Ian.

01:27So they were ground zero and, you know, they sustained major damage from that and ended

01:32up moving because of it and now we have another strong hurricane headed his way so, you know,

01:37we wish them the best and, you know, if you're in the area, you still have time, make those

01:41preparations today, definitely take those precautions, get it done before it's too late.

01:46For AccuWeather in Tallahassee, Florida, I'm storm chaser Mike Scanlon.

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