These are barrier islands. They need to be covered with mangroves not buildings. we need the mangroves to support the environment. Remove the building and sea walls.
I used to go to Estero Island in the 1960's & 70's, when there was 1/2 the amount of people & nearly no hotels! They will never go back to empty beachfront property!
@@jameylane1591 do you realize NYC was wetlands before caucasians made it concrete? Lol. You know how many natural water ways use to run through Manhattan. Look at old maps. The places that flooded during Sandy were marshland. Surprise surprise, NYC contains plenty marsh land with homes on top now. Some flooded not from the ocean during Sandy but because the water table rose! Many in long island experienced that flooding from no ocean or rain. Manhattan experienced ocean surge forced against the rivers causing spill over into Manhattan
Living in paradise comes with a price tag. I kicked my father’s butt for many years for moving us back to Canada to endure long winters when I was a kid. Events like this make me grateful.
Welcome the new normal for low lying coastal areas. Pretty soon those properties will be uninsureable. Not to worry though; our lawmakers in Tallahassee will take some time out from banning books to come up with some fine solutions.
Florida sucks will never understand why so many people move here high insurance, overcrowding, traffic, hurricanes and continuous hot weather four years to retirement and getting the hell out
I used to go to Estero Island ( Ft. Myers Beach) in the 1960's & wondered the same thing! Why didn't everyone get their cars off the island, before a hurricane?
I lived in Tampa Bay for 27 years and fled Florida this past June. Hurricanes were one of the top reasons why I no longer wanted to live in Florida. Category 4 & 5 hurricanes were unheard of when I first moved there in 1997. Furthermore, hurricanes back then were largely an East coast phenomenon (South Florida). I didn’t sign up to be in the crosshairs of yearly hurricanes of Category 4 and 5 strengths. Leaving Florida was the best decision of my life.
Who in their right mind would buy a home there??? There's no way that they are going to get a fraction of what their homes are worth if they try to sell them now...
I think everyone in Florida is pretty much done. None of us will be able to afford to insure a car or house. If we go out without insurance it's only a matter of time before we're completely wiped out by a storm.
When i was teenager in Boca Raton people had beach cottages. They were ramshackle affairs that had the old couch the old stove the old tv. They did not live there. Why? Hurricanes! They lived inland out of the flood zone. This after living 28 years on the west side of the state 15 miles inland we had never flooded. County did not lower the level of our lake ahead of Debby and we got 14 inches of water in the house after 11 inches of rain. Why? They had to let 15 billion gallons of water out of a poorly maintained lake.
@@harrydoherty8299I agree. Lets follow NY's lead and eliminate bail, hamstring law enforcement, eliminate felonies as a prosecutable offense, release criminals from jail and raise our taxes to pay for political grift. That would be a good start.
they are done and a year later more people come and take over. florida has been this way for the last 50 years. i first went there 56 years ago. there were only about 7 million people. it was quaint. i told my parents it will be the next california. it is the next california and it is not nice anymore. if you want to go there in the winter ok, but don't move there.
I was living in Port Charlotte about an hour north of Ft. Myers when hurricane Ian hit two years ago, and it was just awful. We didn't flood, but I was one and done. Back in Texas and don't miss FL one bit. Good luck to those folks .
@@rongendron87051961, Sanibel Island was empty, a day trip paradise by ferry back then, sand roads and very few people. I revisited it about 30 years ago, WOW! I could not believe it and I can just imagine the development there now. Bet there’s a lot of sorry people today.
@@Keithdagreat not this one fizz. It went a thousand miles inland to rip apart Asheville, Chimney Rock, Biltmore Village & everyone in between. Never happened before. People washed away in their houses
About cars. I found shopping in S. Florida for a car a little tricky. I found 2 of the make VW EOS 2012. One with 8k the other with 18k in miles. The lower milage one was salt water stained. Under the chasis. A mechanic advised me to take the 18k car. I wouldn't have known if not for the inspection. BUYER BEWARE.
@conniegravelle1803 it was a national resale Co.. The salesperson called me twice after I returned the damaged EOS. The sale is all they care about. Don't take anyone that's not a mechanic at word. Coconut Creek VW didn't let me down. I had a race car/luxury person look at them. A decent man. Hard-working Venezuelan. Also....he didn't want to get paid. There was no charge.
You'll find a tiny bit of salt evidence on any car near the coast in Florida. What you want to look for is inside the trunk that it didn't take on water.
Left Southeast Florida four years ago after living there for 60 years and haven’t looked back! Between the weather, crowds, crime, cost of living and the crazy MAGA people it was time to go. Best of luck to all those dealing with the hurricane cleanup, please stay safe!
It's a weird world when some people can afford to lose car after car (or house after house) and kinda go, "Oh well - we'll just buy another one" or "We'll just rebuild AGAIN". Wealth is distributed so bizarrely. And why didn't this dude get his car out of the area when he knew it would likely flood? We have some people without almost limitless resources and more and more people living in cars. I watched a couple of money market channels and everybody in this country is gonna see rises in insurance costs as a consequence of these people insisting to live in these flood prone zones.
Unfortunately, for the last 200 years or so, humans have been building stuff on barrier islands along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. Up till recently, the storms that occasionally destroyed what was on these islands were considered unusual and exceptional. Now, finally, the realization is beginning to dawn that such construction should never have happened in the first place. But by now it's way too late to be able to get back to the natural state these islands should've been left in.
Don’t mean to be unsympathetic, If these people keep rebuilding they should not be able to get Home Owners Insurance. As these storms get more dangerous my insurance keeps going up to pay for the insurance loses.
What is mother nature telling these folks ? I'm not done destroying the coastal areas ....listen people time to leave move more inland or north this is just going to keep happening time and time again ..prayers to everyone that lost everything and some that lost their life's it's not worth living near the ocean visit and vacation but not live ..
I don’t blame insurance companies from pulling out of Florida. The risks are way too high to cover these folks in low lying areas. Hurricane Season is getting worse.
My neighbours are convicted fanatical snowbirds from Canada I wonder if Punta Gorda is so attractive now that the area is swept by hurricanes so often.
The beach housing market is about to experience a cataclysm of value loss and uninsurability like it has never seen. Of course millionaires and billionaires will scoop it all up and within ten years noone but them will be able to afford to live on the water.
Ain't nobody is gonna buy a house by the beach, if they do this dude will take a terrible monteary lose, they'll low ball him, I'd bet Rick harrison from Pawn Stars will be there buying properties.
Yeah. Not even worth a penny. You'll need to pay insurance (through the roof) plus property taxes (through the roof since it will be empty). You can keep it 😂
Yes correct however I saw a picture of a stilt home on concrete piers laying in the sand, piers fell over and the house sitting cockeyed on its floor. So although better not entirely flood and wind proof.
More than likely there's some loophole involved so they don't have to pay out. And the following year, your insurance will drop you if they did have to pay out for you.
Well, not a few years. But much of it could be underwater in the next 100 years. I suspect higher areas like Mt. Dora, FL will continue to be above water.
It is hard for me to feel sorry for these people. It took 2 hurricanes for me to say goodbye. That was in the late 80s. But please Republicans don't move here😂
Their potential losses were very foreseeable but they knowingly chose to live in a hurricane prone area. Sorry for their losses but it’s hard to feel sympathy.
We MUST elect someone next month who - unlike Trump - actually believes in climate change, or we will see more and more of these terrible events coming closer and closer together. Harris/Walz are willing to tackle this issue and have plans set to go to do so. Voting blue up and down the ticket will give them the backing needed to get 'er done. My prayers are with everyone suffering now because of the storm(s) this week across America.
