Hurricane Ivan Storm Surge Video - Pensacola Beach, Florida

[WaxBeachArtist]

oohhh, I evacuated for Ivan. I usually stay but not that time....scary!

[arpeejay]

OK, I gotta say it: Are you NUTS?!! I'm glad you were safe, I'm glad you were on the 4th floor of a concrete block building. But it wouldn't be the first concrete block building to collapse in a hurricane! Jiminy cricket!

[UltimateChase]

@arpeejay haha, Thanks. Watch the Hurricane Charley and Hurricane Katrina videos on my channel as well, haha ! I'm not nuts, I'm just crazy !

[14freedomfirst]

@Ultimatechase I agree Ivan was a scary hurricane, I have lived in Pensacola since 1983 & have been through every hurricane except hurricane Erin in 95. Ivan was by far the worst. It was Complete blackness when it hit, No power, Streetlights, Moon or stars. Looking outside when it hit was like looking with your eye's closed except when lightning struck. The sounds were unbelievable, Tree's snapping in two, Buildings coming apart & the ferocious sound of the wind, All in complete blackness.

[14freedomfirst]

@14freedomfirst Forgot to add For those who are curious about Ivan & the daylight footage they might see of it, It was well into the night when the worst part of the storm hit.

[JenniceSwagg809]

:O When Was This ??? Omq Crazie !!!!!!

[tucker1700]

Too bad it didn't wash away Portofino. Those buildings are hideous.

[TheKhaibear]

I rode this storm out in East Hill--which was very intense--the beach must have been scary as hell ( obviously ).

[1016jared]

Does Pensacola get a bunch of hurricanes? Great video

[catrina4schaler]

I also agree with u that Ivan was a very scary storm. Of all the storms I have been through, it was by far the scariest. We decide 2rent a room accross from the uwf hospital in N P'cola. Not a good idea. Though we had decided it would be a good spot over Navarre when Ivan was headed straight 4 N.Orleans. But of course made that last minute turn. We woke up 2the intercom of the hospital since 1side of the hospital was gone from a tornado @4am that I cried myself 2sleep 2with a mattress over us!

[catrina4schaler]

Wow, I am so greatful to have seen this video! I am from Navarre Florida and at the time of Ivan my son had just turned 1 on the 2nd of Sept. I am so happy to have seen this because when I 1st met his father he lived on p'cola beach in the A framed house that you showed. When we went out to check out the damage however the A frame and the rest along with the neighbores house was completely gone! So it was nice to see! Kinda! Funny to think I did a lot of sneaking through those low windows!

[volcomlost3]

What building were you in?

[AlwaysaFLgirl]

My moms house was destroyed in Gulf Breeze, 3 minutes from the beach. Friends houses were nothing but centerblocks, worst year of my life, especially being a senior in hs!!! I have never seem so many homes and washed out road, until Katrina hit my grandparents. People are complete idiots for staying for a category 3, even if your 20 miles inland - complete ignorance. Now I've been watching Hurricane Irene like a hawk since im working out of Charleston SC!! Lucky me

[Sodiumreactor]

how could anyone give this a thumbs down???

[SuperConerz]

i cant wait till the next hurricane takes down all of those stupid condos, i hate all the tourist, it used to be so much better without all of that.

[MrKeyboardcrazy]

My friend I was 40 miles east not sleeping a wink wondering if our house was gonna stand. Good video!

[sweetjuicyfruit1]

omg i remember this we pas that house

[ryan13003]

One of the worst nights of my life. Sitting there in my house by candlelight and listening to the huge pine trees snapping and thundering onto the ground... wondering if the next one was gonna land in my living room.

[NBAGOATS]

I love Pensacola. Its my home. Florida is THE BEST PLACE TO LIVE ON EARTH.

[stevens11000]

boring

[bizzle187]

this video is like a real life nightmare. i would have peed myself repeatedly that night.

[oceans204]

It took 12 hours for the huricane to pass by it was a freaken pain in the but. But thats cool that you where brave enought to take this video, and stay in the place you stayed in. Just one question... Did you stay there during the whole hurricane?

[magnum7mm44]

I used to vacation there, in Pensacola in the early 2000's, but have'nt been back since IVAN. That hurricane was particularly nasty, dropping a tornadoe in Virginia close to Martinsville Va. where I resided at the time. If I'm not mistaken this storm went up the east coast close to NY, went back out into the Atalntic traveled south back down the east coast, crossed Florida again, and reformed in the gulf as a tropical storm. Then it traveled west, north west hitting Texas and up into Oklahoma.

[LakeTahoeWeather]

Dude you have the best Hericane footage on the web.

[UltimateChase]

@LakeTahoeWeather Thanks !

[kdwilsongb]

@UltimateChase i lived there we left and went to alabama when we got back the only thing left was a stick sticking up out of the sand we lived right accross from the beach!

[UltimateChase]

Haha, Glad you recognize this. People usually talk more about the video I shot in Katrina and Charley but in fact Hurricane Ivan was the only time I've been scared. I was alone and stranded on an island in a building that was storm surge all the way to the second floor AT NIGHT !!! I was the only one in my building and all the wind noises blowing through the elevator shaft and cracks in the doors and the shaking of the building with every wave I WAS SCARED for sure. Only my flashlight, haha

[didu52]

@UltimateChase I just gotta say. You have big balls my friend. I remember Ivan, I rode it out with a friend in cantonment, and I was quite petrified with that distinct howling noise you only get with a strong hurricane. But to be there that close, and look Ivan in the eye, you got my respect. Thanks for the footage, as a pensacola native, I never really saw the damage with the 3 mile bridge destroyed for so long.

[pcolalongfellow]

@UltimateChase I been trying to tell people that Ivan is one of the baddest storms to ever make pandfall in terms of the destruction it caused! It was one hell of a storm! Makes Irene look like a summer day shower!

[MsMercury]

@UltimateChase Oh yeah, that was one scary hurricane to ride out and I was in East Hill at the time. We were so scared the roof was going to come off the house. How did you end up alone in a building on the beach? Why on earth didn't you evacuate? I thought they were pretty much forcing people off the beach?

[wkares]

@UltimateChase When was this?

[UltimateChase]

@wkares This was Sept. 16th and 17th, 2004

[wkares]

@UltimateChase Good coverage. Thanks.

[Maximilien514]

Balls of steel award given to you for staying on your own in a big building at night when there's a Hurricane outside and water's surrounding you... The only thing that could've made it worse would've been zombies... You, sir, win at life.

[dizhottty]

that really sad for the people there who got killed

[BigMacFail]

I miss the hurricane season...how sick is that? The hurricanes that hit Florida are special and no other hurricane is like one in Florida

[worktosser]

excellent video. I would get a bit scared in that stairwell with mother nature howling at the top of her lungs like that.

[timkim72]

Good, I was not implying you to leave, I just know a lot of "wanta be's" grab there cam's and try to be a storm chaser and thats when it becomes deadly..

[timkim72]

Wonder where he got that boat from... hummmm....

[UltimateChase]

In fact I would like to think I am saving you tax money. The videos I capture provide a sense of awareness to the public to show them how bad a hurricane is and I like to believe my videos have help persuade people to evacuate that might otherwise be thinking about staying. So in turn have saved some rescue operations. I have been involved with at least a dozen situations where i am helping local people whom stayed behind and usually there is not a rescue personal in site...

[UltimateChase]

Well you are certainly entilted to your own opinon. The fact is this person that you say was killed taking videos does not make me the same type of person with the same experience. I have NEVER used the rescue operations help in over 20 tropical cyclones filmed and in fact supplied my own food and water to an elderly couple who stayed on the island and had no help from any rescue operations. I paid out of my own pocket to get off the island from a local. I have never used YOUR tax money...

[timkim72]

One person was killed taking "storm chasing vids" of the same hurricane.. if you don't live on that island (the police) should drag your butts off... your wasting my tax dollars from search and rescue operations looking for hurt people who can't call out for help... and how did you get that boat at the end of this vid?

[gobulldogz504]

police cant do shit i was in loxely al for that storm aqnd they told us to leave and we said no. What could they do thats right not a damn thing bc of the storm. Damn some of you people are just stupid. Storm chasing has been a hobby of mine since i was a kid esp hurricanes and thatll never change. your probably one of those morons that leaves for a wimpacane (cat 1). i stayed at my home in new orleans for katrina. if i survived that mess ill survive any of em

[721bri]

@timkim72 lmao at you. people like you make me laugh..."your" tax dollars, are you serious. there were no search and rescue operations for this guy and it is apparent that you watched the whole video also. and maybe the guy that was killed should have been with this guy and he might stillbe alive....either way not this mans fault. quit being the angry "tax payer" lol~!

[mcfrenchcfryphobe]

@timkim72 Bitch, I surfed alot of these swells. This idea of, "if you don't live on that island".... So if you do live on that island you can stay? "My tax dollors", "Our i.e."the rich", island"... Speak these I have a wright to take over and order around in 20 foot surf. I know your mainly talking about you don't want to pay but tuff shit. You want a democracy, you got one.

[SuperNiqqa2469]

are you not scared of this

[SOFIA2009METALQUEEN]

very good work !

thanks for sharing.

best regards

[Hanselj]

very intense footage...thank you for staying safe!!!

[LAYKA190]

Great work!!

[unknownmemories1]

So Cool Mike! ^^ I would not be able to do that.

[cocatwoman7]

Incredible footage here, Mike! the wind sounded very spooky and I can only image how fast your adrenelin was pumping. Love this video and thank you so much for sharing it with me-5 stars! :)

[SevereTstormFan]

I meant the first half is very meteorlogically exciting not all the destruction.

[SevereTstormFan]

Looks very exciting!

[StormChaserNathan]

Very awesome Mike!!!

[real0988]

Unpublished video, thanks for sharing, Mike! .. the wind noise from beyond the grave, really scary. Worth the effort for your unique scenes :D

[GermanFireFighter95]

!!!WOOOOOOW!!! 5*****

[stormmoss]

Man wish I could have been there!

[sballoceleste]

ottimo video!!!

[CaStormChaser]

Mike, amazing footage!! Very interesting to see the water seeping through the concrete like that!! Very scary stuff!!

5 Stars and an add to my favs!!

[ExtremeSpinner99]

Very spectacular hurricane, excellente video ! Thank you very much for sharing it with me !

[Hurricane23mph]

Mike this is insanne stuff man unreal.Thanks for posting another great video. With the majority of the ENSO dynamic models forecasting Neutral ENSO by July and most of the eastern tropical atlantic warmer than average i.e; main development region the signs are there for an above average year. thanks again for uploading, adrian

[BeechSundowner]

Wow, howling noise is nuts

[tornadovideostock]

Incredible video Mike!! Excellent job. I remember trying to film Frances during the night time hours and it was next to impossible. I wish I had that flood light like you did.

[vmax135]

Absolutely incredible video, Mike! The nighttime footage is amazing. I'm pretty familiar with that nerve-wracking, totally isolated feeling being stuck in an enclosed location, in complete darkness, during the height of a major hurricane... and your footage captures that perfectly! That wind noise between 2:20 and 2:30 is so eerie!

[darkdjo]

Waoh it's impressive !

[TrackHurricanes]

This is insane video. Reminds me of a hurricane version of a scary movie.