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have our fox news chief meteorologist rick reichmuth with us. rick this has been rough so far. really has. three things, the storm surge that broke records in fort myers and naples as well by a lot by the way, three feet higher than we had ever seen from any kind of storm surge in the past. that obviously causing all that flooding right along the immediate coast. then we have the winds, actual verified winds of 140 miles an hour in cape corral. a lot of this wind was really prolonged because it s such a slow-moving storm and then you have the rainfall. because it s so slow we get rainfall that just continues to batter the state and we ll see big time inland flooding concerns. this made land fall in the exact same space that hurricane charlie came on shore in 2004 which is amazing to have two massive hurricanes or two strong hurricanes like this come on shore in the exact same spot, hard to imagine, because it came on so strong, it s still a category 2 hurricane after ....
Up the road to get to people as quickly as possible. i know they ll actually do some rescues by air, some rescues by water if they need be. but we ve got to get the roads back open because that s how you get the power back on. but the first thing you do, the first thing you do is get the roads open so you can get to the people that need being rescued. there will be people injured, hopefully we didn t lose anybody, but they ll need to get to a hospital and we have to get to them as quickly as we can. i know, i ve talked to the sheriffs, been with the sheriffs all across our state they re absolutely committed with fire and rescue to get there as quickly as they can. but everybody has to be careful, hunker down don t do anything foolish right now. be careful. sean: i think that s good advice for everybody and know that help is on the way as soon as you are able that s going to happen. one more time, if i may, senator, give out the state, to its credit, has put out a special, if you know ....
Joined by florida senator rick scott is with us. senator, let s talk about the rescue recovery efforts. i know the state of florida, we ve been putting it up on the screen. if people know relatives, friends, that might be trapped, there is an input web site, we ll put it up on the screen where people can go and put it up, and i think it s, what is it, floridadisasterfund.org. sean it s floridadisaster.org. first my heart goes out to everybody impacted. i hope everybody s safe our first responders will get to you as quickly as possible. i ve been talking to sheriffs, mayors, police chief fire and rescue across the state and they re committed to getting to people as quickly as they can. great coordination between local state and federal. i talked to the fema administrator yesterday the lady that runs southeast for fema are committed to doing everything they can, the state s doing everything. so hopefully everybody stays safe. don t do anything foolish. and then we ve got to look at ....
This. we re going to have significant rain and wind. tampa orlando and north. that s going to be devastating. we re going to see a lot more power loss, we re going to see a lot more flooding. so everybody s got to hunker down and be careful, take care of each other and don t do foolish things. we re all going to get through this, we re a resilient state but my heart goes out to everybody impacted and stay safe. sean: let s talk about naples, let s talk about sarasota, let s talk about fort myers in particular tomorrow as this storm now makes its way to central florida and then the northeastern part of the state, the jacksonville area. but as soon as rescue efforts start in those areas where they were first hit, what will that entail? because you might have a lot of these areas. the first thing you have to do is get the wind down. the first thing you have to do is get the wind down so the vehicles can get out. as the vehicles get out they ll do everything they can to open ....