and i am trying to be brave and know that my family and i are safe and i will worry about all of that other stuff later. i am 67, lived here for five years. and now it is gone. it is underwater. underwater. so much of that area still underwater there, want to go to matlacha in florida. where liz mclaughlin standing by for us. let s take us there if you will once again. joining at the top of the last hour, as you are still in that area that is just completely devastating to see a road completely broken up really. crumbled upon itself. water still surrounding the area. what more are you seeing? absolutely yasmin this does not look like the result of a hurricane. this looks like an earthquake or something. it is just crumpled concrete, the only artery to the height of pine island behind me. matlacha, this idea like kind of fishing village now just completely crumbled. and in fact there are some remains of homes here. one zahra behind it are completely gone. just washed out
About a year later, New York City saw the first of two historic storms that hit in about a week's time. Henri stayed well off the Long Island coast on Aug. 21
dozens already in florida. we spoke with a resident here who is kind of made a home base where some of these residents are being brought to announce a serve shop and he talked about his experience so let us listen. we stated for the storm fay after going through that for 12 hours, it did not matter what we saw here and we were just pretty grateful to be here. once we got here, it was a scary scene. we certainly expect of the worst we are actually a little bit surprised at a building was still standing. but again you know all of that is so miniscule to what is really happening here. the lost lives and lost property and things like that. as residents are pouring in, we are starting to hear about their harrowing experiences. some are keeping a good attitude yasmin and one man said that he watched his car