NTL : Storm (2249 - 2349)
Florida Storm footage
9/4/04
MARASH FEED #2A (material fed in from over the weekend 9/4 & 9/5)
PROJECT: 090604
BIN: 2 MARASH 2A
DV # 1
22:51:20 start of tape
Marsash Standup #1 (SATURDAY) at Indialantic Beach
22:51:35 Marash standup #1A:
"Twelve noon on Saturday high tide at indiaatlantic beach on the barrier island just east of melbourne, florida. Here in the lee of this big roll of sea grapes it seems pretty calm but let me step out into the breeze here. The winds have been blowing here at a steady 50 mile and hour gail for the past hour or so and for the past 12 hours band after band of this hurricane have blown through here bringing with it wind and rain. End: 22:52:05
22:52:14 Marash standup #1B (high winds)
22:52:59 Marash standup #1C
22:53:42 Marash standup #1D
Indialantic Beach B-roll
22:54:20 broll of wind
22:54:36 two people in yellow rain coats on a stairwell
22:55:04 exterior of a one hour photo store
22:55:15 banks of the beach strong wind
22:55:28 pov walking down a wooden ramp
22:55:46 aftermath a wooden sign in a circular plant container
22:55:55 OCEAN VIEW sign on a gray tarp covered shop covered with a & a big blue dolphin sign
Weather Channel REPORTER JIM CANTORE Broll
22:58:32 broll of reporter from live position
22:58:56 ts of reporter updating local broadcast
22:59:25 joined by local meteorologist
22:59:51 pan up of both reporters
23:00:04 ts of cameraman positioned at back of suv vehicle
Marash Interview with Jim Cantore, Reporter from the Weather Channel
23:00:30 Marash: Jim, in laymen's terms, the 16 hours from sundown 8 pm Saturday to noon Sunday were hellacious. Meteorologically, what was going on in Brevard County for that 16 hours?
23:00:45 Jim Cantore: It was a just a constant pounding of wind and rain and just a beating and I don't care how weak or strong your structure is, water will make it's way in with that type of relentless rain fall.
23:00:58 Marash: A lot of structures are rated safe for category five on the presumption that like most hurricanes it's going to behave it's going to hit you for an hour and go on and hit somebody else. But a 15, 16, 20 hour pounding, I take in terms of stress on a physical structure equals a category four or five.
23:01:19 Jim Cantore: Well, I wouldn't say that actually because of the fact that you're talking about an exponential relationship between a category one to a category five- in an intensity of the hurricane and the power that it forces on the building. Like I was telling you earlier, as far as the water the duration the longevity of this wind driven rain, it is going to find it's way in. It's going to creep in to any little hole especially, on the east side which is what we dealt with northeast and southeast winds so that alone will cause it's own damage.
23:01:56 Marash: If you think of that whirling hurricane as the kind of buzz saw, we were on the cutting edge here for hours after hours.
23:02:06 Jim Cantore: Yes we were. Yes we were. Winds sustained at strong tropical storm force gusting at hurricane force. One of the amazing things to me is that seven hours after land fall.seven hours after land fall we get the maximum gust on the Florida coast line of Cape Canaveral at a hundred and twenty four miles per hour.
23:02:23 Marash: put this storm in historical context- is, is this a once in a lifetime once in a history book storm.
23:02:30 Jim Cantore: Well I hope so, for the state of Florida I'll tell you that right now. Because after Charlie and now after Frances and now maybe, possible dealing with Ivan. And that's just unbelievable we've never had anything like that where a state has been hit that many times with the kind of the storms these have been.
23:02:46 Marash: Meteorologically, what goes into a historically terrible hurricane season like this one where as you say Charlie two and a half weeks later, Frances and now Ivan seems to be only about a week out if that. 23:03:03 Jim Cantore : Well, How many named storms have we had so far?
23:03:06 Marash: Well, this is six.
23:03:07 Jim Cantore: Okay, so only two .
23:03:09 Marash: Ivan is nine.
23:03;10 Jim Cantore: Only two of them has affected land. That is a terrible hurricane season when most of your storms that develop affect land masses in the United States particularly.
23:02:20 Marash: Does a track become a rut in that one storm follows another down a meteorological path?
23:03:28 Jim Cantore: we have seen that before. WE saw it I can't recall the year but it was the year where two storms kind of followed each other. And certainly, we're starting to see storms develop kind of in the same general area east of the islands in the east central atlantic and then make their way on toward the west. Now whether this one comes up toward florida or goes into the gulf of mexico it is too early to say.
23:03:55 Marash: Mid afternoon Sunday, we are over the worst of it here now other than the picking up and assessing the damage.
23:04:02 Jim Cantore: Yes, yeah the worst is over as far as what's happening meteorologically. But for people who may or may not get a chance to return to their homes, that that hell continues.
23:04:20 SET UP SHOT, JIM CANTORE
23:04:31 SET UP SHOT, MARASH
Marash Interview with Wayne Chapple, Overnited at CORNCORDIA LUTEHRAN CHURCH
23:05:36 Marash: Wayne, there was a mandatory evacuation order for this place but you decided to stay anyway why?
23:05:43 Wayne Chapple: Well, we wanted to be close to our homes. The Mickle shelter we heard was already filled. We knew that the church itself was a pretty solid structure and several well, there was eight Christians decided the lord's house was the best place. So we came here.
23:06:07 Marash: Tell me what it was like over this long windy night.
23:06:10 Wayne Chapple: It was a terrible night, we hardly slept. Our air conditioning went out. You know we just kept hearing the howling and the howling. The shingles were coming off the roof and we could hear em being peeled off and that sort of thing. There's a vent at the very top of the building and it would glump every so often and would scare us all to death.
23:06:40 I guess this is off by itself, could you hear any.. a lot of the aluminum sheeting and aluminum roof was coming off and that makes a tremendous clatter. Could you hear any of that?
23:06:50 Wayne Chapple: No, we didn't hear any of that because the church is far enough outside the bay to hear that sort of thing.. We watched the Baptists church across the street, we watched their sign disintegrate however.
23:07:05 Marash: How did this building survive the storm?
23:07:08 Wayne Chapple: Well, we haven't had anybody come as yet but we have seen a number of our the shingles off the roof so we know that there is a problem there. The windows here in on what we call our patio, the rain was driven into the building and so that's why we're here now trying to clean up the water that's why we're here.
23:07:30 Marash: Have you had a chance to check your home?
23:07:33 Wayne Chapple: Yes, I went by my home um, I've lost a lot of shingles but structurally, it's there my car port is still there. But, siding was the main issue with mine. But, there doesn't appear to be any leaks in the building so I am very pleased about that.
23:07:54 Marash: If you had to do it over again, would you try and ride out the storm again or would you, would you evacuate?
23:08:02 Wayne Chapple: That's so hard to say because we could never get a real tracking of the storm. We have friends who went to Georgia, then next thing I knew they were in Mississippi up to Alabama. We've got friends all over the place and they were hop-scotching trying to find a safe place because every time they got a new track on the storm, they were on the way again. So, our friends that are. they're gambling in Biloxi. They could be hit with this storm because I understand that it's going to turn into a hurricane again.
23:08:41 Marash: Well, you know, if you think about that hurricane as a kind of circular saw, you were here right on the eye wall.
23:08:50 dropped off logging
SET UP Wayne Chapple & BROLL CORNCORDIA LUTHERAN CHURCH
23:09:26 SET UP, Dave Marash
23:10:05 SET UP, Two shot
23:10:35 Pan Right empty church
23:10:52 Broll Chapple mopping the leaked in water from the floor
Dave Marash Standup #2 (SUNDAY) at Barefoot Bay Community:
23:12:17 Marash Standup 2A: It's about 4:30 Sunday afternoon, the high winds have been blowing the rains been falling for about 30 hours. And here in this community of Barefoot Bay what's really remarkable is the randomness of the damage. End 23:13:07
23:13:15 Marash Standup Take 2B:
"Pit bulls inside" boarded -up shop
23:17:45 wide shot of street
23:18:21 wide shot of boarded store front of the Longboard House
driving shot boarded up stores
23:18:50
sailboat "Cloudbreak" being lashed by waves
23:19:59 medium shot of sailboat tipped to the left
23:20:36 ts of boat and pull out to ms
yacht being pummeled
23:21:08 wide shot of yacht in the distance
23:21:36 ts of yacht
trees being lashed
23:21:44
yacht in waves
23:21:53
guy walking on causeway
23:22:20 wide shot
downed light poles
23:23:41 guy walking over down light pole
waves breaking on breakwater
23:24:32
23:25:47 ts of waves
sunk powerboat "Kingfisher"
23:26:16
23:27:13 from a different angle
Stop sign gyrating wildly- Rocky Pt Rd
23:27:38
Stupid fat family standing by side of road
23:29:41
Sailboat listing to starboard- actually aground
23:32:04
DV #2 (Sgt. Todd Maddox) will need to be refed.
Drive around with Sgt Todd Maddox, Brevard County Sheriff's Dept
23:33:51
23:34:23 On radio: "Barefoot Bay, is anybody still in the homes down there or are they pretty much all gone?"
23:36: 32 DM: Did Charley come thru here?
23:36:34 SGT: Yes sir. A little damage up at the north end of the county, several thousand people without power up there. Some trees and power lines down.
23:37:00 DM: question on lootng?
23:37:03 We've had already a couple of attempts today. We caught one guy up near Melbourne attempted to rob an elderly lady at one of the local hotels
23:37:25 Melbourne police picked up couple of people trying to break into a building and I believe one of the beachside towns also picked up somebody.
23:37: 47 DM: How long are you going to be able to stay out on the street and when do you have to.?
23:37:51 SGT: We're gonna stay out til approx. 55-60 mph sustained winds. A large portion of our crew now are going back to designated areas, designated safe areas that are hurricane rated for higher winds. They're going to stay in those particular spots and to be dispatched accordingly to calls to emergency calls. We're not responding to anything we take now it has to be life threatening or taken on a call by call basis.
23:38:35 question on lights down on causeway
23:38:41 We've actually shut down the causeways, the two major causeways here in Melbourne going over to the beachside are shut down for traffic except for law enforcement and fire.
FAST_FWD
23:43:52 Broll of GPS monitor in Sgt's veheicle (barely any audio)
DM:
SGT: Its probably one of the few communities of such a large size as far as mobile homes, modular homes go. It one of the larger retirement communities in the country. It has a population of 15-17000 people.
DM: this is an area that been under a mandatory evac order for more than 24 hours but I take it there are still maybe a dozen holdouts?
SGT: Yes sir. According to the Fire Dept and they have their names and identification there are about a dozen people that refuse to leave and they have been under a mandatory evacuation actually since Thursday.
This particular area here will take the brunt of the hurricane force winds when it does come ashore.
Driving shots in the rain
Smashed traffic light