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Milton's floodwaters rapidly rise overnight
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10/10/2024
Flooding from Hurricane Milton overtook Punta Gorda, Florida, on the night of Oct. 9, as storm chaser Aaron Jayjack showed AccuWeather viewers live.
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Now we're going to head a little bit down the road to storm chaser Aaron Jayjack in Punta Gorda.
00:05
Aaron, also obvious storm surge there. Looks like we've got vehicles in the water and the rain and wind continue for some.
00:12
And how is this going in your area? How have you seen the storm surge behave now compared to say several hours ago?
00:21
Yeah Jeff, we have been here in Punta Gorda for the duration of the event.
00:25
Essentially watching the storm surge slowly come in at first.
00:29
We started off just down the road from our hotel where a seawall was at.
00:34
And we watched the water, when swells would come, would spill over a little bit.
00:38
Eventually it rose and it started spilling in, continuously spilling in even without those swells.
00:44
And eventually we got to the point where we thought we better check to make sure our route back to our hotel,
00:49
which is our safe spot, we could still get there. So we went and checked it out.
00:53
We can get to the hotel. So we went back to the seawall for about 20 minutes.
00:57
Decided we needed to get retreat back to the hotel. When we came back we had to drive through about two feet of water.
01:02
It came up that fast. And now earlier that was, you know, several hours ago.
01:08
And we watched that water rise to the point that now we are on an island down here in my hotel,
01:13
surrounded by cars that are in the water. We have moved our car to the one high spot right up next to the hotel.
01:20
But we are watching the water continue to rise. The surge water is continuing to rise.
01:25
But we feel like it has slowed down in how fast it's rising.
01:29
We've been watching along the cars here to see if it's still continuing to rise.
01:34
And it's coming up a little bit. We're still getting pounded by these westerly winds.
01:38
So when still these strong westerly winds give up and move away from this area, that water is going to stay here.
01:44
We're likely going to be stuck here, I imagine, for the next 24 hours or so, waiting for these waters to go.
01:50
We've lost power. We've been seeing power flashes all night.
01:55
Reporting, be safe out there. A lot of vehicles in the water.
01:58
I'm glad that yours is in a higher spot right now.
02:01
But there will be many insurance plans coming in out of this storm for sure.
02:04
Aaron Jajak, live in Punta Gorda, as the area around Charlotte Harbor fills up with seawater here.
02:10
That strong onshore wind continuing to keep the water levels high.
02:14
Stay with us. We're going to have an update on power outages and impacts for the night.
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