Hurricane Ian - Cape Coral Canal Tour

Glad y’all are safe, boats can be replaced.

Wow, so much devastation. But I was pleasantly surprised to see most of the houses appeared to have come through IAN in decent shape -- windows intact and minimal if any roof damage. But the way boats -- including big yachts -- were tossed around is astonishing. Capricious -- some boats wreckied, some boats look intact. Thanks for tour -- really interesting and sobering.

Ty for the video,, hope the community is recovering. Thousands of animals were displaced too. That turtle swimming in the water was a land turtle. A local tortoise that was desperate to get to shore. Hopefully he made it.

Heartbreaking to see all the loss and destruction so many suffered! So sorry for what you are going through!

Were on fmb and had rebuilt after hurricane Charlie with the fema mandated raise of elevation and still had five foot of water in the house. Our boat ended up wedged between two houses almost three-quarters of a mile away. Luckily we were covered by insurance and while lower than imo the proper amount we are rebuilding and wondering what we're going to do to get back on the water. We watched your n.y. to the cape series and leaning that way to come off of lake Michigan in the spring. Thank you look forward to more adventures

The images are beyond words. Its almost hard to believe what you all just went thru considering its such a beautiful day that your recording this video.

What’s scary about this video is not the boat damage! It’s the damage you can’t see in this video that’s actually the scariest and most heartbreaking thing of all. Most of the houses on that canal look fine from the outside. However, on the inside many of those homes were completely gutted out by that storm surge. It’s actually all those severely damaged homes that look fine on the outside, but are a total wreck on the inside that is the scariest thing of all.

wow...thanks for showing the conditions there....thumbs up from Lake George, NY

Great video so sorry to see so many boats displaced.

Over the past several years I’ve took my beautiful 52 sport fish Hatteras with a tower along with my 4 boys from Mystic, Connecticut to Palm Beach, Florida. Memories I’ll never forget. For the first couple of trips we would run from Mystic to Atlantic City, NJ. After filling up then to Norfolk, Virginia. Then to Beaufort, SC. via ICW. Interesting travel but between shallow waters, logs and people yelling at you I never wanted to take the trip again. If you don’t know what your doing regarding navigation your in trouble. One time this large yacht passed us really going fast maybe 25 or more knots. A few minutes later he’s yelling at us to pull him off a sandbar. He was really stuck. We continued after suggesting he call Seatow for assistance. On our return trip to Mystic we met another Captian who suggested to stay out side the Hatteras’s and avoid the inter coastal to Norfolk. He asked me my fuel capacity (about 1,200 gallons) which is sufficient and to check the weather. Well the next morning we headed out to the Atlantic towards Cape Hatteras the “grave yard of the Atlantic”. We had a great run and an interesting trip. There’s one marker that from a distance has the shape of a horse. The sea was okay and had an interesting time and ran up to just south of the Chesapeake Bay. That’s the end of my story about us avoiding the ICW when ever possible. Gerald P. Rothman Captian Manchester, Connecticut

Such Devastation!... It will be back. We need a video of Happy Hour going up the Caloosahatchee toward Ft. Myers. The 2 Miserable Miles during a Weekend "Rush Hour"... That would be a fun video!

thanks for the video

I came across your video while researching how to get our boat off someone else’s sea wall. ours is just a bow rider but we had years of fun with it. This has certainly put things in perspective for me. Thanks for sharing.

thanks for the real report

Thanks for the tour - shame to see all that marine damage, blasted storm surge.

Hard to see all the damage. There’s been a lot of damage but things are looking much better. Everyone is fixing and moving forward. Cape Strong. ❤

Very interesting video. I moved from Cape Coral about 2 years ago. I was able to see the back of my old home, and several of my neighbors homes and the damage they've experienced. I had two boats, a 33' sailboat at the dock and a 19' dual console on a lift. I can only image the damage I would have seen had I still lived there. I was difficult to see my neighbor's boat (Heartbeat). He loved that boat and was out there cleaning and polishing it all the time.

Mindblowing... mind numbing.

thank you for the videos. I also saw you took some water damage, sorry about that. We only had water in the garage, but many friends were like you and had to gut their houses from water inside. I did see some friend's houses and boats in your video and many looked okay. So here is the bad news. You missed a chance to be a savior for that tortoise, if it were a turtle it would have swam away. That was a tortoise like the ones at cabbage key (the smaller ones not the big named ones) you could have picked it up and put it back on land to save it :(

Wow I see the damage on out side boats and docks , some smaller vessels can be lifted up slowly with high volume water pump and air bags the bigger vessels need cranes. I like to see damage on inside houses if allowed to show us.