Posted on 10/06/2022 1:11:18 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
FORT MYERS, Fla. – A man and his cat rode out the fury of Hurricane Ian last week in his sailboat, which was his home before the storm.
Ian was a monstrous Category 4 hurricane with 150-mph winds when it slammed into Southwest Florida on Sept. 28. The terrible winds pushed ashore feet of water from the Gulf of Mexico as it made landfall. Widespread destruction was left behind.
Ron Latta, of Fort Myers, said he had been living in his 32-foot boat named "Lattatude" for four years, and decided to stay with his home.
"You don’t leave your boat," Latta told FOX Weather correspondent Max Gorden on Monday. "I mean, it’s all I have."
Latta said he knew things were getting bad about 10 a.m. the day of landfall as the wind and storm surge increased. By that point, it was too late for Latta to make it to shore.
"It was horrifying," he said. "It really was. It lasted like 12-14 hours."
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“A boat is not stupid if it is your home.”
Compared to your life a boat or a home is nothing. It can be replaced.
“Compared to your life a boat or a home is nothing. It can be replaced.”
To some, yes; to others, no.
Ha! said his cat slept through the whole thing!
As long as you have a healthy kidney…..you’re not broke.
“As long as you have a healthy kidney…..you’re not broke.”
ha ha. that’s pretty good. ... unless you wake up one day like the guy in the Urban Legends movie - sitting in a bathtub full of ice after they have harvested your organs.
“I saw video of boats left in mangroves. Some looked abandoned.’
Probably. I know in the Keys some boat captains will tie their boats up in the mangroves then evacuate up the highway. Possibly the same here.
However the climate experts can predict global warming but they can tell where a hurricane is going to settle. They have so much work to do to try to figure out the path of these destructive storms . People prepare, running around buying supplies spending all kinds of money, evacuating here then moving somewhere else. It’s no wonder why people say screw it im staying. This one was really bad insofar as the prediction. The euro model was most on target but for some reason they ignored it.
Hesaid his cat slept through most of it...12-14 hours. Lol!! I believe it!
A Sailboat has more in common with a coffin. The cat might have died for goodness sake!
Nice wallpaper.
‘scetti’s done!
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