AP Archive | Florida residents recount force of water as they assess damage from Helene @APArchive | Uploaded October 2024 | Updated October 2024, 1 week ago.
(3 Oct 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
++PART MUTE AT SOURCE++
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Pinellas County, Florida - 2 October 2024
1. Various of Dave Behringer's home and truck with trash piled
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Dave Behringer, Redington Shores, Florida Resident:
"But the water, it just came so fast that literally in forty minutes this whole place was under this much of water. So even if you wanted to leave there was no getting out. It just happened that quick, so."
3. Wide of Behringer spraying off patio
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Dave Behringer, Redington Shores, Florida Resident:
"Everybody's biggest concern is getting the garbage out of here, you know. There's no place to put anything anymore and there's still so much to do. I mean we still have a ton of stuff that's got to go but I have no place to put it."
5. Drone aerial showing piles of trash lining street ++MUTE++
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Dave Behringer, Redington Shores, Florida Resident:
"I've never seen, you know in the time I've been here, I've never seen what I saw. You know, that night, it just, it was incredible."
7. Wide of water line on Rajesh Mittal's rental property
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Rajesh Mittal, Apartment Owner:
"At 8:00 p.m., Dave, who is my tenant calls me and says, 'Raj everything looks okay, we are in good shape'. 9:15, 9:30 he calls me, 'water is coming in' and by eleven I think he said, I'm sitting on top of my car."
9. Wide of trash piled in front of Mittal's rental property
10. Wide showing Laura Rushmore cleaning Red's on the Blvd
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Laura Rushmore, North Redington Beach, Florida Business Owner:
"I did my duct work around the doors the best I could and I had to evacuate. I live two blocks down and had no idea the devastation this would cause. It's just like what you see on TV."
12. Wide of bar
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Laura Rushmore, North Redington Beach, Florida Business Owner:
"We've evacuated many, many times. I always do when we're mandatory evacuation but we've never I've never had any damage from a hurricane. This is the first one on the beach and I've been here 20 years."
14. Various of chairs thrown around post Helene
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Laura Rushmore, North Redington Beach, Florida Business Owner:
"I didn't realize how powerful water was and when we came back every one of my coolers in this skinny little opening of the bar has just lifted right up from the water. Everything in here when I walked in, of course full with mud, we had to use shovels to get that out and then everything ended up down that way."
16. Wide of bar
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Laura Rushmore, North Redington Beach, Florida Business Owner:
"And then you know outside in the lots it was just covered, covered. They had bulldozers trying to take the sand away. We're still just driving on dirt."
18. Wide drone aerials of sand piles ++MUTE++
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Laura Rushmore, North Redington Beach, Florida Business Owner:
"This is good. This is you know, almost a week now after just trying to clean up. I'm not sure I'm going to be able to come back on this one."
20. Wide of bar
21. Wide of Rushmore walking back inside her bar
STORYLINE:
Hurricane Helene’s storm surge struck Florida fast and hard when it slammed into Gulf Coast communities near St. Petersburg.
Long-time residents had never seen anything like the 8-foot wall of water that pushed ashore last week, and that was the problem.
Some people still escaped the rising waters and others were rescued but 12 died from the surge.
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(3 Oct 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
++PART MUTE AT SOURCE++
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Pinellas County, Florida - 2 October 2024
1. Various of Dave Behringer's home and truck with trash piled
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Dave Behringer, Redington Shores, Florida Resident:
"But the water, it just came so fast that literally in forty minutes this whole place was under this much of water. So even if you wanted to leave there was no getting out. It just happened that quick, so."
3. Wide of Behringer spraying off patio
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Dave Behringer, Redington Shores, Florida Resident:
"Everybody's biggest concern is getting the garbage out of here, you know. There's no place to put anything anymore and there's still so much to do. I mean we still have a ton of stuff that's got to go but I have no place to put it."
5. Drone aerial showing piles of trash lining street ++MUTE++
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Dave Behringer, Redington Shores, Florida Resident:
"I've never seen, you know in the time I've been here, I've never seen what I saw. You know, that night, it just, it was incredible."
7. Wide of water line on Rajesh Mittal's rental property
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Rajesh Mittal, Apartment Owner:
"At 8:00 p.m., Dave, who is my tenant calls me and says, 'Raj everything looks okay, we are in good shape'. 9:15, 9:30 he calls me, 'water is coming in' and by eleven I think he said, I'm sitting on top of my car."
9. Wide of trash piled in front of Mittal's rental property
10. Wide showing Laura Rushmore cleaning Red's on the Blvd
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Laura Rushmore, North Redington Beach, Florida Business Owner:
"I did my duct work around the doors the best I could and I had to evacuate. I live two blocks down and had no idea the devastation this would cause. It's just like what you see on TV."
12. Wide of bar
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Laura Rushmore, North Redington Beach, Florida Business Owner:
"We've evacuated many, many times. I always do when we're mandatory evacuation but we've never I've never had any damage from a hurricane. This is the first one on the beach and I've been here 20 years."
14. Various of chairs thrown around post Helene
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Laura Rushmore, North Redington Beach, Florida Business Owner:
"I didn't realize how powerful water was and when we came back every one of my coolers in this skinny little opening of the bar has just lifted right up from the water. Everything in here when I walked in, of course full with mud, we had to use shovels to get that out and then everything ended up down that way."
16. Wide of bar
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Laura Rushmore, North Redington Beach, Florida Business Owner:
"And then you know outside in the lots it was just covered, covered. They had bulldozers trying to take the sand away. We're still just driving on dirt."
18. Wide drone aerials of sand piles ++MUTE++
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Laura Rushmore, North Redington Beach, Florida Business Owner:
"This is good. This is you know, almost a week now after just trying to clean up. I'm not sure I'm going to be able to come back on this one."
20. Wide of bar
21. Wide of Rushmore walking back inside her bar
STORYLINE:
Hurricane Helene’s storm surge struck Florida fast and hard when it slammed into Gulf Coast communities near St. Petersburg.
Long-time residents had never seen anything like the 8-foot wall of water that pushed ashore last week, and that was the problem.
Some people still escaped the rising waters and others were rescued but 12 died from the surge.
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