bear? as i was bent down adjusting the hose or turning the hose off, that is when the bear apparently laying down took a turn, of course i was knee level and i got paw marks on my shoulders, so he, you know, apparently stood and/or turned towards me, teeth marks in my head and paw marks on my shoulders and i got shoved against the shelving unit in the wall. and it was such a blur and in a matter of seconds, i kind of knew what was hitting me so i turned to exit the garage and literally knowing later on two days later in a video that i actually ran into or tripped over the bear exiting the garage trying to make my way to safety, to get myself back in the house
you get the things you need out. then you have to look at the costs. looks like damages across florida could be $63 billion in total. charles? charles: thanks very much. and then there s this. the water got all the way to the deck there. so you re looking at 14 feet, don t you think? i don t know. it was really scary. we looked around. basically i said, we re probably going to have to hold on and get on the air mattress and hopefully it won t go to our ceiling. charles: my next guest thought he was a corner as water rose in his home. mike rose joins me from fort myers. mark a harrowing story. it s hard to fathom how this water, first at knee level and then at your waste and then at your chest. now you rerying you re
we ran for our lives without taking anything. her bed tonight is the floor. one of the 1.2 million people the government here said was affected by these floods. out of the city, north, the rain was still coming down and the rescuers were still rescuing. we ve just come from a place where they are tidying up and trying to get back to normal but 30 kilometres north, here, it s still a recovery operation. rescue workers there in fluorescent life jackets. and if ijust swivel you around to the right, well, this is a road that s turned into a river, a lake, call it what you like. 100 metres down there, the water is at knee level. even further it s at chest level. so the rain has stopped for now but this is still a crisis. from above, the huge scale of what happened here becomes clearer. the electricity supply and mobile phone coverage is not fully restored, but the worst of the rain seems to have passed for now which leaves time for other things. fishing. . . in an underpass?
it was coming up the stairs. i wasn t afraid of the water, but the wind kept blowing and i felt the walls in the house move. the water was just coming in so fast, that, you know, it got to about knee level so quick, i didn t know if it was going to stay there or rise, so i just went up to the attic. and it didn t get too much higher than that, but it was scary. it came in all at once. the storm may have moved on, but life-threatening flash flooding is still a concern in parts of mississippi and louisiana. and right now, areas in alabama and tennessee are getting a great deal of rain from this storm system. pedram javaheri is joining us now with the latest forecast. so what are you seeing? it is a shell of its former self, but it is really important to note the incredible amount of rainfall in store still. we expect to lose some of the
the attic? if it went past that, god take me. seriously. and we were afraid because it was coming up the stairs. i wasn t afraid of the water, but the wind kept going. and i felt the walls in the house move. what is the last night been like that for you? hell, man. trying to get out last night, winds just weren t allowing us to. power lines are down, trees are down in the street. you know, kind of hard to see at night with no lights. were you up in your attic? yes, sir. the water was just coming in so fast that, you know, it got to about knee level so quick, i didn t know if it was going to stay there or rise, so i just went up to the attic. it didn t get too much higher than that, but it was scary. it came in all at once. reporter: it came in all at once. doesn t that remind you of hurricane katrina? 16 years ago to the day is when hurricane ida landed in louisiana and swept through the