Queues at gas stations with no gas, traffic jams on flooded roads - the focus in Florida's Ian-ravaged communities is on getting back the bare necessities. But it's tough. Read Sky's Jonathan Samuels' eyewitness report 👇
A two-hour drive up the coast took us six hours last night, through flooded back roads, passing abandoned cars and emergency vehicles evacuating patients from hospitals with no power.
Drivers were disregarding road markings - even roads themselves - in the frantic overnight scramble to reroute out of a highway that was flooding with run-off.A massive tidal surge drags people and other objects into the sea The storm surges have moved north, but it's not over for the residents of southwest Florida. Rivers are swelling. Areas in desperate need are being cut off in new ways, as the water rises.
Now communities are taking rescue efforts into their own hands. We saw one elderly man and his dog saved from waist-high flooding in his home. The rescuers? His neighbours, who had brought a boat to find out how badly their own home was hit. The family heard him banging on his door and shouting for help.State trooper escorts clear the path for tankers of water, headed to hospitals and emergency water distribution centres. While 1.5 million homes and businesses are still without power.
There is talk of billions of dollars in damage, of years of rebuilding homes and harbours. But for now, the focus of those here is on getting back the bare necessities.
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