My sense is we will be able to release a lot of the search and rescue resources that we’ve had on hand very soon,
One of the most profound things I’m seeing is the flooding. We have flooding in places and to levels that I’ve never seen, and I’ve lived in this community for my entire life,
We just wanted to stretch our legs and get out of the hotel,
We do have power outages across about 75% of the county, but we are doing the best we can to assess,
This is extraordinary to see this type of flooding, especially in this type of area. The University of South Florida area is normally a dry area,
He understands ... it will take a lot from the federal government to help us recover in Sarasota,
Our immediate concern is getting the road open so we can get water restored, get power back on and so we can get our residents back,
My ask is please don’t rush home right now, we’re still trying to assess what’s going on,
When you’re a Floridian, you kind of just know that these are things that can happen, and you roll with it and you just kind of deal with it,
The police and the fire departments have their hands full. we’re bringing out crews to clean up the tree debris and get our roadways clear.”
So far, knock on wood, we’ve had no injuries and no deaths in our community,
Mr. President Trump, former President Trump, get a life man,
The city must do something about this flooding, 100%,
They don’t like to pay out and this place always gets ruined in hurricanes,
We don’t have confirmed reports of other fatalities throughout the rest of the state, but we may as the day goes on,
There was no other reason to be here than for that,
Looking out, all we could see is just these sheets — it wasn’t raining — it was these sheets of rainwater flying by us in every direction,
If this happened again, I know the house is great, ... but maybe I’ll just find a hotel somewhere.”
I think you can go back and find tornadoes for all of human history, for sure. and especially, you know, Florida — how does this storm rate in kind of the history of storms
We never did the pre-staging of power assets until I became governor,