Florida Governor Ron DeSantis was faced with a nightmare scenario when Hurricane Ian shattered the relative calm of an unusually quiet storm season, slamming into the southwestern Gulf Coast as a Category 4 monster, but as with COVID, he is showing strong leadership at a time of emergency.
Gov. DeSantis wasted no time in joining the relief efforts in the area that was devastated by 155 mph winds and a storm surge of biblical proportions, on Saturday, he dropped by a Charlotte County Waffle House where he manned the grill to help serve hot food to linemen who are working to restore electricity to the area.
The popular governor who is expected to easily defeat Democrat Charlie Crist in November and could potentially run for the White House in 2024, was an inspiring presence to those who are faced with a grueling task over the coming days and weeks as he slung hash at the Waffle House.
.@WaffleHouse is one of the first restaurants in Charlotte County to reopen and provide hot meals as we work together to serve Floridians after #HurricaneIan.
Thank you for providing meals to the linemen working to restore power. pic.twitter.com/w0AkexcUeU
— Ron DeSantis (@GovRonDeSantis) October 1, 2022
“@WaffleHouse is one of the first restaurants in Charlotte County to reopen and provide hot meals as we work together to serve Floridians after #HurricaneIan,” DeSantis wrote on Twitter. “Thank you for providing meals to the linemen working to restore power.”
.@WaffleHouse is one of the first restaurants in Charlotte County to reopen and provide hot meals as we work together to serve Floridians after #HurricaneIan.
Thank you for providing meals to the linemen working to restore power. pic.twitter.com/w0AkexcUeU
— Ron DeSantis (@GovRonDeSantis) October 1, 2022
Reactions to DeSantis were overwhelmingly favorable outside of the usual sad and pathetic leftist trolls who seek refuge from their miserable lives on Twitter.
Not only has he been on top of hurricane relief efforts, but he’s also cooking up hash browns at a Waffle House for first responders.
Every state needs a Governor like DeSantis. 👏🏻 pic.twitter.com/6RhNS6OAax
— Ryan Fournier (@RyanAFournier) October 1, 2022
. @GovRonDeSantis has put on a MasterClass in leadership during a natural disaster – or any crisis for that matter
— Monica Crowley (@MonicaCrowley) October 1, 2022
DeSantis is slinging hash and waffles in hard-hit Charlotte County. https://t.co/qU6XYStDW7
— Jim Stinson (@jimstinson) October 1, 2022
We haven’t seen a leader like Governor DeSantis in my lifetime. He’s at Waffle House frying hash browns for first responders. He’s making sure peoples homes are protected from looting. He’s providing hurricane relief HIMSELF.
This man is going to win re-election by a landslide.
— Christian Walker (@ChristianWalk1r) October 1, 2022
Gov. DeSantis served first responders at a Waffle House in Punta Gorda this morning. I’d pay good money to have the Governor serve me breakfast at a Waffle House and to shake his hand. He’s doing a tremendous job!
— Pamela Hensley (@PamelaHensley22) October 1, 2022
DeSantis also put criminals who would seek to exploit the national disaster by engaging in looting.
“You can have people you know bringing boats into some of these islands and trying to ransack people’s homes. I can tell you, in the state of Florida, you never know what may be lurking behind somebody’s home, and I would not wanna chance that if I were you, given that we’re a Second Amendment state,” he said.
Florida is a law and order state.
Looting and lawlessness will not be tolerated. pic.twitter.com/8Ma9RuSlPq
— Ron DeSantis (@GovRonDeSantis) October 1, 2022
Hurricane Ian made landfall on Wednesday afternoon at Cayo Costa, a coastal island near Fort Myers, the 155 mph wind speeds were only 2 mph shy of a Category 5, with people in the area being given no time to evacuate after the media had spent days insisting that it would hit the heavily populated Tampa Bay area, doing those in the hardest hit areas no favors. The confirmed death toll has reportedly risen to 77.
The devastation from the storm spread across most of the state with heavy winds and torrential rains, leaving many areas heavily flooded, Ian continued to wreak destruction after it exited Florida and regained hurricane strength in the Atlantic Ocean before making a second landfall in South Carolina.
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