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00:09The force of this hurricane was unlike anything that I could have imagined.
00:29I've never seen anything like it. It was a terrifying show of just how powerful nature can be.
00:47Welcome to my apocalypse.
00:51Holy s**t, that car is flying!
00:54What the f**k?
01:30All right friends, welcome to the third annual Cedar Key Sharkswear!
01:36The weather tried to stop us, but we would not be denied!
01:42Get set, go!
01:49Here we go boys!
01:52My name is Michael Presley Bobbitt. I live on a little island called Cedar Key off the western coast of
01:57Levy County, Florida.
02:01On Cedar Key it just feels like old Florida.
02:06It's one of the last remaining blue collar working waterfronts in the state.
02:10And I'm a blue collar guy, I grew up in a trailer in an orange grove, so these seem like
02:15my kind of people.
02:17There they are coming off the left side.
02:22There are probably 500 of us that live there, and that's a small enough number that you feel like you're
02:27absolutely part of an extended family.
02:35The Gulf of Mexico is the great provider and the angry God.
02:41Sometimes it comes to collect a toll.
02:44When it does, sometimes that toll is everything you have.
02:51Welcome back to Foxweather everyone, I'm Kelly Costa.
02:53We continue to track tropical storm E. Dahlia.
02:56Yes, still a tropical storm.
02:58You still have 70 mile per hour winds.
02:59It hasn't been strengthening more recently, but that is going to change.
03:15Over here we do have people slowly but surely matriculating their way in to get sandbags.
03:22My name is Jonathan Petromala.
03:24I'm an independent filmmaker and I live and I'm based in St. Petersburg, Florida.
03:29I go down to St. Pete Beach.
03:30It's a beautiful day.
03:32It's sunny.
03:33The wind's not too strong.
03:34E. Dahlia's hundreds of miles away in the Gulf.
03:37When does it change for you guys from playing tennis to filling sandbags or boarding up the house?
03:42When does that change for you?
03:43I would say probably what, four or five days beforehand in Florida?
03:47I think I'm fine until like the night before.
03:49Yeah.
03:51It's kind of an odd thing here in Tampa Bay because Hurricane Charlie was scheduled to come and hit us.
03:56Hurricane Irma was scheduled to come and hit us, but it always misses.
04:00Are you thinking that people maybe are letting their guard down a little bit right now?
04:04Oh, absolutely.
04:04What makes you think that?
04:06I think we've had too many misses.
04:08The impression I get when I talk to people is that they believe that this is going to be like
04:12every other hurricane.
04:14It's going to miss and they've just wasted their time and money buying water and boarding up their windows.
04:31Within the past hour, Hurricane E. Dahlia has officially become a hurricane.
04:36It is literally the calm before the storm.
04:49Water level is already at a scary level for my house.
04:57My name is Dr. Tracy Panara and I'm an oceanographer out of Tampa, Florida.
05:03It's never this high. It's usually a mud pile.
05:08Right there.
05:11On the 29th of August, I'm at home and I'm starting to see the water level already start to rise.
05:20The neighborhood floods all the time, but not our house.
05:23Okay, so I'm looking at the coastal emergency risk assessment site.
05:28Here the area in pink is a storm surge warning.
05:35I'm seeing that the surge models are giving us a substantial amount of water.
05:40So let's look at what kind of numbers we're looking at here.
05:44We were seeing between four and six feet of surge being predicted in Tampa Bay.
05:50That's a lot of water, especially for a place that's right at sea level.
05:55So we knew that this was going to be serious.
06:00It's getting a little extreme.
06:03So I go out in the Jeep to basically see what's going on.
06:08At this point, there's no rain.
06:11This storm at Dahlia in the Gulf of Mexico, it's 150 miles away.
06:17But it had so much energy that it was just pushing so much water into Tampa Bay.
06:24I'm just worried that people aren't taking it seriously.
06:28This could be devastating.
06:46Welcome to my apocalypse.
06:50My name is Joel Silver.
06:52I live in Hernando Beach, Florida, about 40 miles north of Tampa.
07:00Oh, my goodness.
07:02We were receiving the warnings from meteorologists on the news, and most people evacuated.
07:09I did not because I stayed behind to help out the people that didn't evacuate.
07:15And it ended up a lot more intense than we had expected.
07:19How am I supposed to sleep with this going on?
07:22I haven't slept for days.
07:23We really did not think anything major was going to happen.
07:29I didn't expect that these forecasts were actually going to be accurate.
07:35And that was a mistake.
07:49What you're witnessing is the beginning of a very significant flooding event for the low-lying beach communities in Tampa
07:55Bay.
07:56I see Sturge rushing in.
08:00The evening of the 29th, I go down to St. Pete Beach.
08:04I'm seeing water rushing like it's a raging river.
08:08Water rushing into streets, into people's homes.
08:15You good?
08:15Yes, sir.
08:21I know the main impact spot for Adalia is going to be up in the Big Bend, near Cedar Key,
08:27a few hundred miles to the north.
08:30And the only way to get to the north are bridges.
08:34Time is running out.
08:35It's time to go.
08:36We have to go at this moment.
08:41I've never seen water crashing over the Howard Franklin Bridge like it was with Adalia.
08:49That's just not something you see.
08:50It's a major bridge.
08:52You do not expect to see waves crashing over the top.
08:55We're the last car over that bridge before it's closed.
09:00Adalia, it is now a higher-end Category 3 storm with max winds at about 125 miles per hour.
09:06Landfall is imminent.
09:22Stop for a second.
09:28We've got a significant storm.
09:30We're already invading portions of the scenery here.
09:34We can see the water coming right off the Gulf.
09:36Big waves.
09:37And we're getting close to high tide this morning as well.
09:40And it's the worst-case scenario as Hurricane Adalia continues to intensify.
09:44And you can see the impact already well ahead of the storm.
09:47It's still way offshore.
09:49And there's already some of these buildings getting damaged.
09:51As well as the periphery of the main boardwalk here of Cedar Key.
09:56We're going to have to retreat inland to the shelter.
09:58It's higher up, of course.
09:59Because this is coming up a lot more.
10:01A 10- to 60-foot storm surge.
10:03You can expect it here.
10:05Get that vehicle down.
10:06Connected to an angry Gulf of Mexico.
10:08Big waves.
10:09Classic storm surge.
10:10And this is going to be a record-breaking storm surge.
10:17Like, threatening conditions already well ahead of the hurricane.
10:29We're going to have to get off this pretty soon.
10:35Do we want to walk through?
10:48Probably up to our thighs.
10:51Probably looking at about an 8- to 10-foot storm surge now.
10:54Possibly couldn't even approach 16.
10:56Couldn't even go up further.
10:58Every surge of wind brings in a bigger storm surge.
11:01Wave after wave coming over.
11:06Hurricane Adalia going nuts.
11:26The surge is really starting to come.
11:30Everything is turning real fast.
11:33Holy cow.
11:34I walked down to the bottom of the hill to see how high the water had gotten.
11:38there was a sense of impending dread that's when it really crystallized for me that people's lives
11:44were about to be upended and it was it was devastating it's water for as far as you can
11:51see and it's going to keep coming when all the streets in town were underwater i knew that this
11:58was a once-a-generation storm there was a mandatory evacuation in place but i stayed behind
12:07the cedar key had come to mean so much to me everyone in their life has to decide what's
12:11important to them they draw a line in the sand and they say everything beyond this is mine
12:15and to me it's always been the island
12:33hurricane adalia came up the coast and smashed into keaton beach with category three wind speeds
12:41up to 125 miles an hour
12:47the last storm of this magnitude to hit the area was in 1950
12:53it's made landfall just on the big bend on a place called keaton beach which is to the southeast of
13:00a
13:00town called parry the eye wall of course at landfall is the most dangerous part of the storm
13:05parry right now is under the extreme wind warning
13:14get on the other side of the road as quick as possible dude
13:18oh my god
13:25my name is david baxter i'm from the denver colorado area and i'm a professional storm chaser
13:34my chase partner michael kosh and i were trying to get to parry as fast as we can
13:40trees are snapping left and right
13:43oh it's coming down
13:47i'm just thinking trees kill people all the time in hurricanes it's very scary
13:52oh my name is michael kotch i am from new york
14:02oh wow look at this
14:04we see a convenience store on the side of the road and at this point winds are really starting to
14:11pick up
14:14we noticed some other people they were dangerously close to this building
14:20oh my god
14:26as i'm filming i'm thinking to myself
14:30holy cow please don't get hit by a piece of debris
14:36they kill people all the time in hurricanes
14:40you don't want to be in the way of flying debris
14:43and i've seen in the past people get killed
14:49oh look at it
14:56oh here we go oh my gosh
15:05oh wow look at this people
15:08at this point hurricane idalia had made landfall
15:11and it was zooming in on the town of parry
15:15winds were in excess of 100 miles an hour
15:18pieces of sheet metal were flying
15:21oh my god oh my god
15:24and as we're filming this building
15:26we notice a couple of other people
15:28they were way too close to this building
15:30as it was being torn apart
15:32this was a very dangerous situation
15:37i'm thinking to myself
15:38please don't anything major happen
15:39please
15:42oh look at it
15:43oh here we go
15:47in that one moment i'm thinking
15:48oh my gosh
15:51but this individual in front of me
15:53and you didn't get hit
15:54by a piece of debris
15:57we couldn't believe what we had just seen
16:00wow that that was bad
16:11wow
16:13my name is max holson
16:15and i'm a storm chaser from oklahoma
16:20my storm chase partner michael hoines and i
16:22we arrived in the parry
16:24and there's only one main highway through parry
16:27so we're starting to get a little concerned
16:29about potentially getting trapped here because
16:31these winds are only getting stronger
16:36adalia is now a formidable category 3
16:39and this area has not seen a storm like that
16:41in a very long time
16:47we can see on radar that the eye wall
16:49it's about to arrive in parry
16:51and things are going downhill very fast
16:58all of these pieces of sheet metal start flying past us
17:04power lines are sending sparks into the main highway
17:10it's just a very intense situation
17:17since the big ben region is so sparsely populated
17:20all of the storm chasers pretty much congregated in parry
17:24parry it's a small town
17:26usually in an area that's been hit recently by a hurricane
17:30a lot of that kind of loose scrap metal
17:33the trees that are susceptible
17:35they've been taken down
17:36but pretty much everything was coming apart in parry during this storm
17:51it's right at the edge of that threshold of where it's safe
17:54or where it potentially could be life-threatening
17:56it's not something you want to be caught outside in
18:04wow look at this wind is whipping
18:08my name is mark payton
18:11me and my brother
18:12as we're pulling into the walmart parking lot
18:14we are looking for a good spot
18:16that's not near trees
18:18go over there towards the middle
18:19and it's not near much debris
18:21look at all the chasers around here
18:23it's all many storm chasers
18:27there are a lot of storm chasers in parry
18:29it made it difficult to find a good spot
18:33for everyone to ride out this hurricane
18:44pat over there
18:45we are inside hurricane adalia
18:54this is the eye wall
18:56oh there it comes
18:57there it comes
18:59there it is right there
19:12oh my god
19:16oh okay i'm getting out at the worst time
19:19this is the eye wall is literally hitting right now
19:22the eye wall is hitting right now
19:23oh my gosh
19:25oh my gosh
19:26dude i can barely open this door
19:28three two one
19:41oh my gosh
19:43i'm not even out of that
19:45i'm not
19:52forget that thing
19:58alright guys
20:06the force of adalia was
20:09unlike anything that i could have imagined
20:12it just took everything i had
20:13to stay on my two feet
20:25as i'm out there
20:27i am thinking to myself
20:28something could hit me at any moment
20:42as i'm standing outside fighting the wind trying to stay on my two feet
20:47i could see the debris actually getting really close to me
20:50it was scary
21:01bro i got messed up out there
21:04that was crazy
21:07i remember thinking to myself
21:10this is not good
21:12my brother and i
21:13we looked at each other
21:15and we quickly realized
21:16that we had no idea what we were doing
21:18i could have been killed
21:41we had a major storm surge here
21:44inundated homes in cedar key in florida
21:46right along the coastline
21:48it's a winded
21:56we are not going to retreat to our shelter
21:59because the storm surge is going to get a lot worse out there
22:20it's a very dangerous situation for this storm surge
22:47it's just club runners as far as the eye can see
22:50and a damaging storm surge at that.
22:56Oh, what!
23:06See large pieces of debris, there's a septic tank
23:09right there that continues to flow.
23:15And pieces of these condos across the way
23:18have just been really taking a beating
23:20from the storm surge.
23:28You can see a lot of debris.
23:34Do you really think it's too deep in the middle?
23:44You think we're getting fecal matter in this?
23:56The water just keeps coming.
23:59It's unbelievable.
24:03I walked down to the bottom of the hill
24:04to see how high the water had gotten.
24:06Our island is in trouble.
24:09The total of Mexico is reaching out to swallow, what's up?
24:13Governor Vaughn, send the National Guard, send FEMA,
24:17and everybody that's a praying book,
24:19reach out to God and have them.
24:23I've been through some really bad storms,
24:25but never any that felt like an existential threat
24:29to my life or to my home or my community,
24:31to people that I cared about.
24:44The Far Away Inn is coming apart.
24:48The Far Away Inn is an old-school cottage-style motel.
24:52A lovely young couple had bought it just a few months
24:55before the storm and sunk their life savings into it.
24:59The whole front building of the Far Away Inn just came apart,
25:03and it's washing up the streets toward us.
25:07Seeing the life's work of this young couple ruined,
25:10it was more than just a motel at that point.
25:14It was really a representation of the, you know,
25:16the soul of our little island.
25:20It was one of the saddest things I've ever experienced in my life.
25:26of the town that I love, my home, my community,
25:29the people that I cared about,
25:31that it might be gone forever.
25:34You know, it's hard to even think about.
25:36It was heartbreaking.
25:42Adalia didn't just stop at Florida.
25:47Adalia is now reaching Georgia
25:50and is projected to move towards South Carolina.
25:54A lot of the people living there
25:56had never experienced anything like it.
26:09My name is Malaysia.
26:11I live in Charleston, South Carolina.
26:13Go!
26:14Give me three!
26:15Go!
26:16Come on, man!
26:17What the ?
26:19So August of 2023,
26:21I was five months pregnant at the time.
26:24As a first-time mom,
26:26I worried a lot in my pregnancy.
26:29I, myself, am a worrier,
26:31but this was a different type of worry
26:32because you never know what could happen.
26:39When I first heard about Hurricane Adalia,
26:42I didn't think that it was a major threat.
26:45There was a lot of people saying,
26:46oh, this is in Florida.
26:48Florida, this would never happen in Charleston.
26:51We don't get weather like that.
26:58On the 30th of August,
27:00we started to get heavy rain.
27:03I didn't think much of it,
27:04only because we've had warnings in the past,
27:07previous summers, especially during hurricane season.
27:12I was working at City of North Charleston,
27:15and it was about, I'd say, a 40-minute drive to work.
27:20But after about 20 minutes into my commute,
27:24I started to lose visibility.
27:29I can't see , this is .
27:32My name is Mason Stewart.
27:34I live in Goose Creek, South Carolina.
27:38So I was leaving work.
27:40The weather was the most severe it's been on my drive home.
27:43I mean, the rain, the wind, I could feel it on the car.
27:46You could hear the rain,
27:47like it's almost like your stereo in the car.
27:52So I pulled over, had to stop.
27:56I noticed everyone pressing on brakes.
27:59I see a lot of brake lights.
28:00That's when suddenly, it all changed.
28:04Holy .
28:06Holy .
28:07That car is flying.
28:09What the ?
28:10What the ?
28:16Holy .
28:18That car is flying.
28:19What the ?
28:248-9-1-1, what is your emergency?
28:26The wind just kicked up the car.
28:28OK, is it flipped over on its top?
28:31It's on its side.
28:34OK, are there any injuries, ma'am?
28:36I don't know.
28:40All I could think about was if my baby was OK.
28:44I'm crying so hard.
28:45I just couldn't imagine that my child
28:48could have made it out alive inside of me.
28:59So my car landed.
29:00I panicked.
29:01I tried to get out as soon as I could.
29:06I crawled through the back window of the car
29:09because I can't escape any other way.
29:12And again, I'm five months pregnant.
29:14So at the time, imagine a round belly trying to squeeze
29:18through a back window over a headrest of a car.
29:20It felt unreal at the time, but I just
29:23know I had to get out.
29:29Luckily, a good Samaritan helped me out of the car.
29:32And that's when the ambulance showed up.
29:34All I could think about was if my unborn child
29:37made it out alive or if he was dead.
29:44He did not.
29:58Look, you're moving over that.
29:59Doc, you're just rushing in the wrong way.
30:11The storm surge from Hurricane
30:13in Delhi has literally shifted
30:15the current. The river is
30:17running the opposite way.
30:19Boats are being knocked loose
30:21and their masts
30:22are slamming into the bridge.
30:27It's just chaos.
30:36Instead of flowing out
30:37to sea and out to the gulf, the river
30:39is now flowing inland. I've never seen
30:41anything like it. It was a terrifying
30:43show of just how powerful
30:46nature can be.
30:59Fortunately, most people that live
31:01there, they had evacuated.
31:03But it could have absolutely
31:04turned out differently for some people that decided
31:06to ride it out in their house.
31:14I can't believe I'm out in a hurricane.
31:17The storm, it was getting
31:19progressively worse and worse.
31:20Looking from our second floor,
31:23it looked like all these houses
31:25were basically floating in the ocean.
31:33hurricane, and now the neighbor's house
31:35is burning down.
31:39And there's not much we can do about it.
31:42A couple feet of water
31:44surrounding the house.
31:49Hell, I'll never get to sleep
31:50because I'm afraid that it's going to jump
31:52house to house, and then I have to swim
31:54out of here.
31:57This place is cooking.
32:02The first thing that came to my mind was,
32:05is there anyone in the home?
32:06I need to make sure no one is in that house.
32:10I realized I have to go out into this storm.
32:16Oh, my goodness.
32:19Trying to get to it.
32:21Sinking in my mud here.
32:27Guess I'm going swimming.
32:32I went out into the floodwater.
32:34It was windy.
32:35The water was moving quite rapidly.
32:38There was debris bouncing off my shins
32:40and my knees.
32:44And believe this.
32:54Looking down the middle of my street,
32:56the neighbor's house is burning down.
33:02Oh, no.
33:03Another house is burning, too.
33:11Flood it up to the mailbox.
33:18I hope these people get a minute.
33:30I just needed to get down there and make sure that there was nobody in that building.
33:36Because the smoke was blowing directly towards me, I was worried that the fire was going to spread
33:42home-to-home-to-home and burn us all out.
33:45It was pretty terrifying.
33:53Holy mackerel.
33:56Holy mackerel.
34:07Walking down the middle of my street, the neighbor's house is burning down.
34:14It was very difficult to fight the water and the wind to get down the street.
34:21Holy mackerel.
34:26And when I got down to the house, luckily, there was no one in the home.
34:36And luckily, there was no loss of life involved.
34:44I got to go back.
34:46I'm getting swept away.
34:49Then, as soon as I turned around, it swept me instantly back to my house.
34:54And I had to grab the fence and then make my way back into the house.
35:05And what happened next was, the water started to recede.
35:11Hardworking men of our need to defeat the community.
35:18At that point, my neighbors and I, we monitored the burning house until several hours later.
35:24By that time, the building was pretty much destroyed.
35:31Adalia displaced most of our little town.
35:37A lot of the houses had to be dismantled.
35:40Some people that have lived there for decades lost everything.
35:45But as long as you still, you know, everyone's still got their life,
35:50then that's what's really, truly important.
36:03The car was in terrible shape.
36:08The driver's side was completely destroyed.
36:17It's miraculous that I even made it out.
36:20I'm just thinking, I hope my baby is okay.
36:27Once arriving to the hospital, I kind of just wanted to have an ultrasound taken immediately.
36:34That felt like the longest way ever.
36:39You're just getting in your head about everything.
36:41And I'm freaking out in the moment because no one's having any answers for me.
36:49They finally walked through the door and let me know everything is okay.
36:54And that's when I felt the biggest relief of my life.
37:01My unborn child was okay.
37:06And luckily, I didn't sustain any injuries as well.
37:12So, this was great.
37:13It felt like a miracle.
37:21My refrigerator and my freezer, they're still on the front porch.
37:25They're floating.
37:29So, is there any water inside your home at all?
37:32It's gone.
37:33It was heated out.
37:34It's gone.
37:35Yeah.
37:36The house, they're gone.
37:37Your house is gone?
37:38They're gone.
37:39They're gone, dude.
37:40They're underwater.
37:41They're gone.
37:42Oh, man.
37:45The Dahlia, all up and down the west coast of Florida, brought in more water than any hurricane
37:53in living memory has.
37:58Generations haven't seen a storm like this.
38:01And a Dahlia opened up a whole new can of worms for the west coast of Florida.
38:06Storm surge.
38:07Something that we knew would happen at some point.
38:10We just hadn't seen it.
38:12Look at that.
38:13It's crazy.
38:16The legacy of a Dahlia, I mean, it was a wake-up call.
38:24People were shocked after that storm.
38:26I mean, lives were completely changed.
38:29And people that thought that they were safe realized they weren't.
38:51The next morning, it was very clear that Perry hadn't been hit by a hurricane in a long time.
38:59I think a Dahlia definitely reminded people in the big band region that they are susceptible to hurricanes.
39:06This area isn't safe or protected by any reason.
39:09It's just luck of the draw that for a couple decades, they had kind of missed out on an intense
39:14hurricane.
39:19This is third street heading toward the market.
39:22The city parking lot here is four feet deep.
39:26After the storm, I went out in a kayak, and to see our little town look like Venice, Italy, where
39:34all the streets were water, was incredibly surreal.
39:39It was really just hard to process, hard to take in, and it really began to set in how difficult
39:45an ordeal we had all just been through together.
39:50Oh, no, they're pumping water out of the market.
39:56Oh, no.
39:58They were just about to reopen.
40:03I think some of the lasting legacies of a Dahlia, at least for our little island, we realized that we
40:08need to build a little stronger, maybe build up above the water lines a little more.
40:14This is what Cedar Key looks like, friends.
40:17Everyone getting together and making sure everybody's got food to eat.
40:21After all the destruction we've seen, this is just beautiful.
40:27But on a more emotional level, it told me that I need to stop and take time to be thankful
40:32for what I have.
40:33Welcome back to Cedar Key, where we highlight businesses that are reopening after the great hurricane.
40:40And to love the community that I'm a part of, and to wake up every day to see what can
40:44I do to make this place better.
40:46And what can I do to support it?
40:47Because it can all be gone in an afternoon, in a moment, in a whisper.
40:55Oh, look at that little face.
40:57You're a little sweetie.
40:59Cutie.
41:03My son was born four months later after the accident, and it felt like the greatest day of my life.
41:12Happy birthday, dear Braxton.
41:18Happy birthday to you.
41:24It was a miracle, and I just feel like we're blessed.
41:28It was a miracle, and I just feel like we're blessed.
41:28To be continued...
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