Our Fellow Americans.

 “I think a lot of people will be forced to swim or wade in the water for their survival,” Hal Needham said, speaking from a town in the path of Ian. “It will be like a raging river.”

Needham, an extreme weather and disaster scientist with the GeoTrek project, said Wednesday that he is expecting a massive storm surge as the hurricane approached. The powerful hurricane drew water out of the harbor alongside Punta Gorda on Wednesday morning, but soon all of that water and much more would be flowing through Punta Gorda.

“We’ll get a surge here that will be catastrophic," he said. "We’re expecting 12 to 18 feet of storm surge, according to the National Hurricane Center.”

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Fires and waters shortages in the West, hurricanes and storm surges in the Southeast.  Thank heavens we're all in this together in this country, eh?  E Pluribus Unum. 

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