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Punta Rassa, Florida, prepares for Hurricane Milton
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10/9/2024
Aaron Jayjack reports from Punta Rassa, Florida, where residents brace for another major hurricane. With storm surge expected up to 10 feet, preparations are underway to protect homes and businesses.
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I am here in Punta Rossa, Florida, on the western peninsula of Florida, just outside
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of Fort Myers, where, back behind me, you can see the Sanibel Causeway that was devastated
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by a catastrophic storm surge flooding during Hurricane Ian just two years ago.
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And now, here we are in the path of another major hurricane, expected to bring catastrophic
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surge to the coast here from Cure Points here, Fort Myers, and further north up to Tampa.
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Earlier today, I talked to a couple of people that were spending some time filling sandbags
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to protect their homes.
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We're trying to make some last-minute preparations to fill some makeshift sandbags to keep water
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out of our condo.
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You know, it looks like this is what's left over from the last storm that got scraped
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off the roads, is what it appears to me.
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We're going to ride it out, and we're cautiously optimistic.
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Shoveling sand.
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We got a foot lower than the screen doors for Helene's, so this one's probably going
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to come up a couple feet on the doors.
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We just moved here.
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All my hard work and helper, and hopefully we're going to stay through this one.
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We're going to go inland to Fort Myers, about 45 minutes into Fort Myers, and then we're
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going to hang there, and if it gets real bad, we're going to go up to Alabama.
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Here in the Fort Myers area, we're expecting storm surge up to 10 feet, possibly higher,
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and that storm surge is going to cause catastrophic damage to homes and businesses that are still
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in the process of recovering from Hurricane Ian.
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And even earlier, two weeks ago, we had Hurricane Helene that has also caused problems here
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with debris piled up.
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You know, as we traveled along the coast the last couple of days, we've seen piles of debris
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that have been piled up outside of homes that they're frantically trying to remove from
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this area ahead of dangerous, major Hurricane Milton.
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For AccuWeather, I'm Aaron Jajak.
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