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Coast Guard crew makes heroic rescues on Florida’s Sanibel Island after Hurricane Ian blew it apart
PLASMA-LIKE UFO Observed Over Naples, FL After Hurricane Ian (PHOTO)
An eyewitness living in Naples, Florida, forwarded a photo of a plasma-like UFO / UAP that was observed in the area after the devastation of Hurricane Ian.
“Hello, Mr. Strickler. I have read and enjoyed your cryptid posts casually for a few years.
I live in Naples, FL. As you know, Hurricane Ian struck our area Wednesday and created much destruction. I live a few miles inland from the coast so the ocean surge did not reach my home, but of course, we experienced high winds, rain, and power outages.
Thursday night my 19-year-old daughter and I stepped outside our condo to walk our dogs and I spotted what seemed like a star above and beyond the small forest behind our building, slightly moving and jumping like a firefly. It was in the direction of Ft. Myers, which was hit even harder than Naples. I took out my phone to record it but didn’t do a very good job. We watched it for a few minutes before my adult son, then my wife came outside and she began recording it. Then my daughter recorded it. The entire time it was jerking around in the sky. Here is a still of the unidentified flying object from one of the recordings, zoomed in.
At the time it just looked like a dancing star. Later, when watching the video, my daughter zoomed in and we saw that the object looked maybe plasma-like, possibly spinning, slightly changing shape, with different colors mildly emitting from it.
We observed the object for 40 or 45 minutes or so. During that time we moved from the ground to the second story of our building, then to the lanai behind our condo. We eventually tired of watching it and went inside. A few minutes later my younger daughter and I checked on it, and the object was still there but lower in the sky. A few minutes beyond that, my son looked out and said it had lowered below the tree line so it was basically out of sight.
I don’t know what to make of the object we observed. I read that the military has experimented with plasma for a few years, so I suppose that is a possible explanation. I am a Christian and have also wondered if it was an angel or ultraterrestrial. Maybe it is a natural electrical phenomenon as a result of the hurricane.
The recordings are short, just two or three minutes each, generally. If you would like to see one let me know and I will try to email it to you.” DT
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NASA Says Hurricane Didn’t Hurt Artemis I Hardware, Sets New Launch Window – CNET
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Hurricane Ian: New photos show scale of destruction in Fort Meyers
Hurricane Ian slammed into South Carolina, and photos and video from the scene are harrowing
Hurricane Ian made landfall in South Carolina at 2:05 p.m. ET Friday near the city of Georgetown on Winyah Bay — marking the official start of the storm’s second major assault on the U.S. mainland. Some damage was immediately visible, with at least two piers collapsing into the sea. The magnitude of the encroaching ocean has already made history, with all-time record-breaking flooding as far away as coastal North Carolina.
In terms of structures threatened by storm surge, Pawley’s Island, a relatively dense coastal community, largely bore the brunt of Ian’s attack during the first few hours.
The White House declared an emergency in South Carolina yesterday, as had South Carolina’s governor, although no evacuations were ordered.
As the storm’s toll began to be felt locally, it was possible to witness the power of Hurricane Ian online. Several users posted photos and video of the storm surge and flooding, sharing documentation of the ongoing damage from this days-long disaster for the benefit of the public — whether they were watching for safety’s sake or out of sheer curiosity. And remember: At this phase in a news story, social media documents like these are always in need of confirmation.
Videos purportedly show devastation from Hurricane Ian in Pawley’s Island
The police in Pawley’s Island were evidently some of the only residents out in the storm, documenting the weather’s impact. Their tweets appeared to show shockingly high storm surge.
That same Twitter account also documented the apparent collapse of the community’s pier.
A South Carolina resident named Jerry Lieberman took video of what used to be a beach, after it was completely swallowed by the flood, if the video is to be believed.
Lieberman also spotted what looked like a fire elsewhere on Pawley’s Island.
Apparent video from Myrtle Beach shows Hurricane Ian’s wind damage
North Carolina meteorologist Kaitlin Wright posted footage of what appeared to be a roof being damaged by Ian’s powerful winds, as documented by a videographer named Kelsey Lyons.
At Murrells Inlet, just south of Myrtle Beach, pictures by photographer Norma Coote appeared to document a dangerous flood several feet high.
Climate change is impacting hurricanes. Some of these impacts are clear, particularly more serious rainfall and historic flooding, along with higher storm surges. Other impacts, like how the relentless warming oceans are affecting how strong these storms grow, are an intensive and ongoing area of research.
NASA Sets New Artemis I Launch Date, Says Hurricane Ian Didn’t Harm Hardware – CNET
As Hurricane Ian made landfall, it was just another strange day on the internet
I was online, like I always seem to be, when Hurricane Ian made landfall in Florida earlier this week. I flicked through Twitter and endlessly scrolled TikTok as the afternoon stretched into evening.
It was a weird, troubling experience. Being online during a natural disaster like Ian is a strange mix of live devastation and the usual internet oddities. Flood waters rising and people memeing it in real time in an endless stream of updates. That is the essence of being online in 2022: Everything is awful, let’s keep scrolling.
We’re just now beginning to see the actual toll Ian took. The Sun Sentinel reported at least 21 people have died in Florida, with thousands more people left unaccounted. Millions were without power Friday after the Category 4 storm pummeled the state with high winds and flooding. Even for a state quite familiar with hurricanes, Ian proved to be particularly awful.
“This could be the deadliest hurricane in Florida’s history,” President Joe Biden said Thursday afternoon. “The numbers are still unclear, but we’re hearing early reports of what may be substantial loss of life.”
As this deadly storm reached its peek this week, the first viral video I saw was…of a shark. It’s a bit of internet lore: a fake image of a shark swimming through a disaster zone that famously resurfaces during big storms. The first illegitimate photo, of a shark swimming on a highway, appeared in 2011 amid Hurricane Irene. Since then, there’s been various reiterations of the meme. So when a real video of what appears to be a small shark (or some other type of fish) thrashing about on a flooded street in Fort Myers, Florida, surfaced during Ian, people immediately started sharing it across their feeds. The short clip has since racked up more than 13 million views.
Hurricane Shark wasn’t the only video to go viral as Ian hit. Some dude ran out to fly a Philadelphia Eagles flag as the storm made landfall. In another clip, people swam in the storm surge (which we definitely don’t advise). On TikTok, you could watch as zookeepers cheerfully walked storks and other animals to a bathroom for safety.
I’d categorize all these videos as curiosities: surreal clips of animals outside of their habitats and people making bad decisions, two hallmarks of the internet. You might even call it fun, depending on which social media platform you were on. Because over on a different corner of the internet, the legitimate horrors of Hurricane Ian were inescapable.
On TikTok, people went live as their homes were flooded, seemingly unprepared for the damage and dealing with real, serious danger. As The Washington Post‘s Taylor Lorenz noted on Twitter, TikTok is the place for real-time news. Scrolling through my FYP was like watching a found-footage horror movie in real time. The footage became so overwhelming that I had to put my phone down. Seeing all these people in real-life danger was harrowing to watch, and it made me feel helpless. There was no relief from TikTok’s savvy algorithm.
Of course, there was also your usual clout-grifting off the wake of the storm. Lorenz noted people were stealing streams and pretending they were authentic. NBC News culture reporter Kat Tenbarge posted that people were asking for engagement on their content as the storm played out.
This is all to say that while there may be a very real Hurricane Shark out there, swimming down a Florida street, the internet in which it exists hasn’t changed very much since 2011. People are still exploiting a natural disaster for clicks, even those at the center of the storm. There’s a fine line between documenting an event and filming things for clout, asking people to follow along. And even the same hoaxes popped up on our timelines (Hurricane Shark, meet Street Manatee). Even as the internet evolves, our online behavior doesn’t.
As Bo Burnham once sang, the internet is a little bit of everything all of the time. Even in the eye of a storm, that remains true.
See South Carolina live webcams as Hurricane Ian tracks new landfall
Hurricane Ian appears headed for South Carolina as of Thursday, after already dealing untold damage as it cut a path across Florida Wednesday evening through Thursday morning. During its landfall in Florida, it was a Category 4 hurricane. It weakened while on land, but on Thursday afternoon it was upgraded from a topical storm to a Category 1 hurricane once again.
In the lead up to its onslaught on Florida, webcams were a valuable resource, allowing the public to witness the terrible effects from afar. Intrepid internet users even used webcam recordings to create a time-lapse view of the frighteningly quick and devastating storm surge that Ian brought about.
Today, thousands of eyes will turn to webcams around South Carolina, as well as in northern Georgia.
Hilton Head webcam shows the coastal effects of Hurricane Ian before its South Carolina landfall
This webcam is located at the Sea Pines Resort in Hilton Head, South Carolina. As the storm strengthens and draws near, viewers can watch the weather as it starts to impact Quarterdeck, a lighthouse-themed seafood restaurant, which normally serves resort attendees.
Webcam in North Charleston, South Carolina shows a normally peaceful birdhouse amid Hurricane Ian
An anonymous YouTube user in North Charleston, South Carolina set up a webcam to show the view of a forested area, including a roadway, and view of what must normally be a peaceful birdhouse.
NOTE: This webcam was no longer live as of 6:00p.m. ET. We’ll update if it goes live again.
Webcam in Savannah Georgia shows Ian’s effects on an Osprey habitat
Cornell Lab of Ornithology operates a webcam that follows the developments of a family of Ospreys in Savannah Georgia, which is near the coast and close to the border with South Carolina, putting the camera, and the birds, in the potential path of Ian, particularly if it strengthens into a hurricane once again.
How is Hurricane Ian related to climate change?
Climate change is impacting hurricanes. Some of these impacts are clear, particularly more serious rainfall and historic flooding, along with higher storm surges. Other impacts, like how the relentless warming oceans are affecting how strong these storms grow, are an intensive and ongoing area of research.