Brian Entin, NewsNation correspondent, assisted in the rescue of a cat-and-dog pair during his coverage on Hurricane Ian. The storm struck a Florida harbor.
Entin tweeted a photo of Entin’s rescue. Entin was able to capture the moment in which a Florida man pulled the dog from a sailboat and brought it to Entin. Entin then took her into a white SUV.
Entin says that the man who saved the dog also went back to rescue a cat left behind by the storm. The video was recorded on Wednesday HereOr at the top.
Entin shared a selfie with her dog on Thursday and tweeted that she was Doing well.
NewsNation’s brief writeup of the rescue located the correspondent in Fort Myers. Yesterday’s Hurricane Ian struck the state’s southwest coast at 3:05 p.m. Eastern time
“It’s a totally different situation now along the water. Many of the sailboats are on their sides … the masts have snapped,”Entin stated. “It’s just terrible what’s happening down here.”
Entin’s reporting revealed that many Fort Myers residents thought Hurricane Ian was going be a Tampa Storm. According to the Associated Press, more than 1.6million households were without power Wednesday night after the Category 4 hurricane. PowerOutage.us
Since then, more outages have been reported in the nort central parts of the state as the hurricane’s center makes its way toward Orlando in the northeast.
Flooding, rapid force winds and varying degrees of destruction have been caught on camera by CNN, The Weather Channel and other national and local outlets – not to mention firsthand accounts shared across Twitter.
According to The Miami Herald, nearly 2.5 million people in the evacuation zones along the hurricane’s path have evacuated, but at least 31 people on an unidentified barrier island in Charlotte County have remained to shelter in place.
Others news stations also have lighthearted views on the situation. They compare light flashes of the to the Arrival of the Transformers, checking Index Waffle HouseThe breakfast chain’s status indicates whether evacuations are possible.
