Storm chaser Connor McCrorey reports live from Sarasota, Florida, experiencing the eerie calm of a hurricane's eye. Residents emerge to assess damage before the storm's fury returns. Stay safe!
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00:00Storm chaser Connor McCrory. He's live right now in Sarasota, Florida with the latest. So give us an update here Connor
00:07Well, the eye is here
00:09I was actually intending to show you guys just how much this boat behind me was rocket and rolling in the waves in the wind
00:16Before the I got here, but just in the last 15 minutes or so
00:20It has come to a dead calm one of the calmest eyes I've ever experienced actually so
00:25Pretty different story from what we were looking at just a few minutes ago here
00:30It would build though just a short time ago in Sarasota describe to our viewers what it's like
00:36I I just understand it as a very eerie feeling as the center of circulation of a major hurricane
00:42Comes right over you
00:45It is always pretty eerie
00:46You know you go through such an extended duration of just getting
00:50Pounded by the wind for sometimes hours and then all of a sudden it's dead calm and weird things start to happen
00:56You start to hear the animal noises again. You start to see people coming out of their home to check and make sure that everything's okay
01:03So all in all it's it's a very peaceful feeling but you know, it comes at the end of something so so stressful it is on
01:12Connor
01:13Just a very eerie feeling right now
01:16Connor in the eye of one of the strongest hurricanes ever to make landfall in the Tampa Bay Area Connor
01:22Keep yourself safe because you know what you're gonna get on the back side of that
01:26Eye wall here within the next hour and I promise you and as you know things will be changing very quickly
01:31That's right that boats gonna be rocking and rolling again. Yeah