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Florida reeling after major impacts from Hurricane Milton
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10/10/2024
Storm chaser Aaron Jayjack reports a messy cleanup ahead for Punta Gorda, Florida, after Hurricane Milton brought high winds, storm surge and flooding. The city streets are covered in mud and debris.
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we've kind of a lot of the water is receded you can see we're just in this
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sludge sludge everywhere this mud is everywhere left over from the storm
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surge last night water still flowing in fact you can see they're starting to
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come through right now try and clear some of this this mud and stuff out the
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debris trying to push it into the sewer system but if you come over here you can
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see these steps here where we are standing here at this business now this
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is about five feet and four plus maybe a little more than five feet off of the
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ground here where we're at on the sidewalk maybe down another six inches
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down to the street level and we're probably five to six feet above sea
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level at this location so you can see that we probably had around that 10 foot
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of surge maybe more here in Punta Gorda just like as I mentioned there is mud
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everywhere this is what they're dealing with now in Punta Gorda Florida quite a
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difficult situation to deal with cleanups going to take some time you
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know probably be helpful of a nice rainstorm came through here in the next
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few days to try and help wash some of this mud out but besides the mud lots of
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tree debris here through here we saw some street signs down as well and one
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weird thing we haven't had a chance to go look at yet we're probably gonna make
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our way next is the the homes that are off to the to the southwest of our
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location here some residential homes that just got done dealing with the
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surge problems from Hurricane Helene two weeks ago in fact they still had piles of
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debris out in front of their homes and now here we are yet again another major
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hurricane causing significant storm surge here in Punta Gorda Florida and
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you have been dealing with people out and about I'm sure this morning or maybe
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trying to start to come out what has been their reaction to all this yeah you
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know we've we stayed in this hotel here where a lot of the residents that are in
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the homes here to the southwest retreated to to stay to get you know a
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higher ground because it is slightly higher ground here and they're all
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coming out you know some of the cars that were in the parking lot were
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actually underwater last night as a storm surge came in so you know there's
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see some some disappointed looks on folks faces people kind of just walking
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around you know trying to just assess the scene for themselves I think there
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some people kind of kind of shocked to see how much mud and whatnot has been
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left in place behind all the storm surge but you know there people are
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there's lots of traffic moving now traffic's moving around I think the
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water is receded enough at least for the majority of the town here that people
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can start moving around they can start bringing in help bring in emergency
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personnel to help clear out some of the stuff see if anybody needs rescues but I
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think for the most part you know they're probably people are probably okay here
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they're probably not any life life-threatening situations here put the
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Gorda fortunately we did have some strong wind but the main event here for
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this hurricane was definitely that big-time storm surge event that came
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rushing in here like a like a wall of water
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