Blocks of beachfront homes in Daytona Beach Shores are crumbling into the ocean. 4k Drone Video. For licensing inquiries please email Brandon@wxchasing.com
Born and raised in Florida 50 years. When I was younger I used to do some surfing in the jupiter area and I remember seeing all of these fancy places condos and nice houses go up. Even as a kid I remember thinking you can't own the beach for long, dude. It's just a matter of time
Category 1 & it causes all this damage ? Your right Dude , beach homes are going to get demolished especially with climate change happening making hurricanes more frequent with worse damage. Knarly !
My father told me once when I was a kid, “never turn your back on the ocean.” Same applies to building on a coast, you’re taking chances. This type of thing has happened on Lake Erie’s north shore as well as Lake Ontario. Actually when he gave me that advise I was probably standing on a Lake Erie beach.
Good Advice! My cottage was on Lake Erie and we got hit bad Twice!! picture shows my cottage and the retaining wall that was built after the storm. The next year we got hit again. Needless to say we got out. Bought a home in Fort Myers. Of course, Fort Myers got hit the worst ever! Thankfully, we learned our lesson and stayed far away from the beach and got minimal damage. These storms are destroying peoples lives. God help everyone who has been affected. Such devastation.
@@staceycabral Lake Erie shore line has been hard hit quite a few times and cottages and homes have been eaten by the lake. I’ve seen some places there for sale and they have had the banks shored up but it’s still scary! Thankfully,you made a good decision and stayed away from the shore in Fort Myers.
Never build a house directly next to the ocean. I live in Florida, and my house is 3 miles from the ocean. It survived 8 hurricanes with little or no damage.
For those few days of the Storm and maybe some time after... it's few and far between while the rest of the time it's like Heaven. And don't forget all those who had 10' of water in their homes after Ian, and they were 50 miles inshore.
wow just wow. this is so well done, smooth video, no sound because who needs it, and slow enough that we can take in the damage and maybe even suss out why some properties did better than others. Thank You for this!
Living in Florida for many years I have seen this happen to countless homes, yet people will continue building on oceans edge. Very sad to see lives destroyed like this,but eventually Mother Nature will win.
When Mother Nature is the casualty in these events she is not the winner. The environment is greatly effected by people insisting on building in disaster prone areas when it is destroyed.
My dad built a modest 2 room house on a Mesa overlooking the ocean in Baja, Mexico. His mantra was never build in Mexico what you’re unwilling to lose. Some expat’s have built huge beautiful homes and have had them confiscated for nefarious reasons. Same mantra with building along the beach. My dad passed away 23 years ago and I still have the house. It costs me $1,200 a year for the land, water, trash and security. Thanks dad for the beach house that will never wash away🙏🏽
@@GillAgainsIsland12 And super hot and humid in the summer. I had family that lived inland. Made the mistake of visiting one summer. Nope. Never again.
It's unbelievable, thankyou for the footage. When I was a kid 60 years ago my families beach house was lost to the ocean. During the 70s in New Zealand.
2:42 Whatever pool construction company built this pool should include this picture of the pool still standing after a hurricane, in all their advertisements!
When visiting the USA a huge culture shock was how close to the ocean homes are built. Some even in the ocean depending on the tide. Houses built on sticks on Malibu beach with the tide coming in underneath them. It's madness. My money is on the Ocean.
Absolutely natural phenomen (lost house is lost home for sure). People love to build on top of active volcanoes too (until lava starts flow in bedroom). But I get it as it is nice place.
I love the swimming pool at time stamp 2:43. It looks like a giant bathtub suspended in air over the ocean. Perfectly intact....just hanging there. Incredible.
The days are numbered for every single one of these homes still standing along this coast. This was only a Cat 1 hurricane and dozens of these homes are already done for. Imagine if Ian had hit this coast instead of the southwest coast. This coast has been dodging the bullet for years and their time is running out.
It is truly obvious that the properties with a breakwater have weathered very well. There has to be something solid between the ocean and the homes. So sad this is happening.
Do we really need to change the entire landscape and disrupt nature because we insist on living next to the water. Sounds pretty selfish. We have one earth and this is how we are treating it.
I definitely see the benefits of a good sea wall. Erosion by the water is what caused most of the sad mess. Paradise 90% of the time. But when the Atlantic comes calling...
@@peternolan4107 The problem is that all of us residents end up paying MUCH MORE for insurance and those who lost homes often can rebuild in the same spot.
Heartbreaking?? How? No one should be allowed to build that vlose to the beach. Beachfront should be easily accessible to everyone. Second they literally built their houses on SAND. Third we all end up paying for this.
So sad but you half to expect that. Shame on city/county for allowing them to build like this. Even the walls did not help unless they had established trees. But that might block their views.
Everyone assumes they’re stupid and ignorant. Some might be, but I think most people realize it’s a risk they’re willing to take to live on the ocean. Florida has thousands of miles of beaches. The odds are really low if you think about it. It’s not life threatening either. Everyone has plenty of time to leave. Is it really any more foolish than living in Tornado alley where you have no real time to escape?
I’m not far from here a little inland. A cat 4 or 5 and I’m doomed. My friends I grew up ask me if I’m afraid of hurricanes. I’m not a fool, I realize the risk I take in Florida. It’s a risk I’m willing to take to go to the beach in December while my brother is freezing in NJ. Call us fools in Florida if you want, but I think you’re all fools wasting half you life inside in the winter. I’ll be riding my cycle tomorrow. Have fun on the couch up north. 😝 😆
Sorry to see all the destruction. But that's the price you pay when you live right on the coast of a tropical area noted for hurricanes and tropical storms.
I am so sorry for the affected persons, life and dreams attained shattered. Starting over is not going to be easy but it is going to hard, just remember please if you have life, your family and people that love you, you are bless and more rich than you think. All the other factors are just things that can be replace.
@@LazySusan. may I? My view sometimes we see things and achievements, never the struggles. What does a hurricane experience teaches us? It doesn't give a F who you are! So my view what ever was a person struggle to attain their achievements is theirs. I am just about empathy, sympathy and understanding in persons time of pain.
Wow! Winds and storm surge alot more powerful than expected...seems to be something really 'off' and 'unusual' about these storms. Otherworldly. The devastation is unreal. Why are homes even approved to be built so close to the water's edge? It's a great loss for all involved and does not make any sense except to those that profit from it. So very sorry to all those who have lost their homes to this surreal storm.💜💚💜
The St.John's is coming up and also the Ribault rivers. It's high tide/ full moon and coastal areas and rivers are flooding but we've been here before. Just wish the wind would come down.
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This has happened on the west coast. If you build on cliff you must build on granite rock foundation and rocky coast. You build on a cliff of sand foundation above a beach then nature will tale the beach back and sea will take away your foundation.
Most buildings survive 70 mile winds. Might have a shingle or piece of siding blow off here or there. If you did a cheap concrete seawall, it couldn't handle the pounding waves. Try pounding a few steel posts in the ground before pouring the wall next time
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Yet there are many homes that are in the same vicinity and had no damage. They are not as old as some you see and are built to different codes than years ago. They survive without a problem. On the west coast you had many homes that had no damage but another house across the street or next to it was obliterated. Go look at NJ's coastline, when they had a storm everything was gone.. whole blocks of homes that weren't even on the ocean fell apart. It's all about how they are built..
@@WestShoreMan You actually have soil erosion in Pacifica, CA where houses have literally fallen off the cliff! A lot of the houses there have already been abandoned and demolished. You can watch some of the videos here on yt.
Apparently, it pays to: -have a good sea wall. -have neighbors with a good sea wall. During a hurricane, the "natural beach" frontages washed away, and compromised their neighbors. That's what I sea as a native Floridian.
omg, this could be an advertisement for why everybody building on the oceans edge should have a SEAWALL!!! my heart goes out to those who couldn't afford one 😢
I say this with no offense whatsoever to the people who've lost property in this storm. But, it appears (at least in this video) these are mansions. I doubt they were purchased to live in full time or much at all throughout the year. Over here on the Gulf Coast places like this on the water were bought solely for tax purposes. Many of these owners will simply see it as a headache. The real tragedy is if they were historic and not not new builds. Just my opinion from what I've learned as a Florida resident.
These are sand castles. Tear them down and make the area into a park with an ocean promenade. Not every inch of land needs to be sold for a profit. I always wondered why ocean waves were smaller than sea waves, because the ocean just comes and takes.
In reality, thousands of homes did survive the storms. It was a tough year for FL coastlines. But building right on the ocean front just is not smart in my opinion.
please , let them keep building on the ocean coast line, the ocean can show them better than you or I can tell them. The only way for some people to learn is to give them what they want.
Wow, just wow. The damage is extensive enough that had difficulty placing where in the area this was to look at "before" info. For those curious like I was, the house with the hot tub at the 12 second mark geolocates at 29.119501857994166, -80.95033568360404 in Port Orange FL and continues north up the shoreline. 3:23 in is 29.13081850800492, -80.95706596023388. At 3:33 you're near the intersection of A. Atlantic Ave and Egret Ave, Port Orange FL, looking at the homes just south of that intersection. Looking at the overhead shots on Google Maps is just amazing. That's also a section of the beach where a "street view beach front is available. Though it's from 2013, it is an amazing contrast to the wreckage of these drone shots. Amazing!
sorry the town names get a bit convoluted there. The house street addresses say they're Port Orange on Google Maps but they're really Wilbur-by-the-Sea. Daytona Beach Shores starts about 1/2 mile north of Egret Avenue.
Think of the storm surge and waves as a horizontal buzz saw just spinning and cutting the sand dunes away. As the ocean level rises, this will happen more and more.
Hurricane Ian had done enormous damage to the beaches here. Nicole came along before any repairs had begun. She finished what Ian started. But this area got slammed by Matthew awhile back. It's a vulnerable spot. Barrier islands don't take well to being built up. The tides are always changing the shape of the East Coast shoreline, all the way to Maine.
Not one single comment on the UNUSUAL GIANT waves this storm generated... They were 33 FEET TALL, That isn't even the biggest for this storm... They were 40 feet off of Canaveral in the Gulf Stream, That is WHY all the destruction, NOT NORMAL even for a Hurricane.
