Extreme storm surge led to widespread flooding late on the evening of Oct. 9, ramping up in the hours after Hurricane Milton's landfall
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00:00Take a look at this.
00:02Flat out, terrifying storm surge.
00:04This neighborhood in Venice, just water about to the door handles, I think, of a car
00:10inside of this mobile home community here in Venice Bay.
00:14Just impressive to see that storm surge coming up and over.
00:17That's Fort Myers leading into Sanibel.
00:20These are the streets in downtown Sarasota.
00:22Parts of downtown Sarasota are underwater.
00:25I mean, this is just unbelievable, the situation that we just found ourselves in in Sarasota.
00:30We are on an island out here in my hotel, surrounded by cars that are in the water.
00:35Look at this.
00:36This looks like a raging river.
00:37This is unbelievable.
00:39And it is coming in very, very fast.
00:42The city is underwater.
00:44It is terrifying.
00:46Oh, my gosh.
00:48Oh, my gosh.
00:49All right, they made it out.
00:50Flooding nearly on every single street here.
00:54And it's just going to be another catastrophe, unfortunately, after we've made it to where
00:59we lost the goal to make landfall just north of here.