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Re: Irma and Florida
« Reply #50 on: September 11, 2017, 06:19:07 PM »
GREAT RABBIT!!!...

Whew....was hanging on this one....I'll chip in for a new tarp too...

WooooooHooooo
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Re: Irma and Florida
« Reply #51 on: September 11, 2017, 07:19:02 PM »
Great to hear about the cat and rabbit.  Waiting to hear on our kids place in Bonita Springs.  It's just a get away home, but still concerned.
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Re: Irma and Florida
« Reply #52 on: September 11, 2017, 10:32:24 PM »
Quote from: billt on September 11, 2017, 02:13:46 PM
If you look at the homes and estates for sale on Zillow in Cudjoe, Summerland, and Big Pine Key. There are some beautiful and unbelievably expensive properties there. I'm sure most have been destroyed, or severely damaged. I can't imagine some of the losses those people are going to take. There is no harbor, or breakwater protection from the open ocean. And with the damage done to the only road in and out. Who knows how long it will take them to get materials in to rebuild. It's not the easiest place to get to. Especially with so much damage and flooding up and down the state.

https://www.zillow.com/homes/for_sale/pmf,pf_pt/2-_beds/136000-_price/494-_mp/globalrelevanceex_sort/24.701847,-81.398993,24.629776,-81.552801_rect/12_zm/

One of those houses in Summerland Key is listed for $13,900,000. I wonder how it fared. If my house was a total loss it would be chump change compared to what even a little damage to that house would cost.
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Re: Irma and Florida
« Reply #53 on: September 12, 2017, 04:21:34 AM »
Quote from: jumbofrank on September 11, 2017, 10:32:24 PM
One of those houses in Summerland Key is listed for $13,900,000. I wonder how it fared. If my house was a total loss it would be chump change compared to what even a little damage to that house would cost.

I would imagine it's heavily damaged. Especially sticking out on a point like that. Very few of those homes have any seawall type of protection from the water. There was at least a 6' storm surge in the Keys. With 140+ MPH winds. Many first floor residences were completely inundated. I think the biggest problem for a lot of these people, isn't going to be rebuilding. It is going to be the difficultly they'll face in securing building materials. Between Texas, all of Florida, along with the Caribbean, there isn't going to be enough to go around.

Drywall, carpet, flooring, cabinets, vanities, paneling, will all be in short supply. And will cost a premium. Not to mention roofing supplies and lumber of any kind. A lot of pool homes in Florida have those screened in enclosures over them for insects and mosquitoes. You can bet most every one will need replacement. Those things look anything but solidly constructed. Everyone will need everything at the same time. There will be shortages galore. Not to mention rip off artists, and lots of quick and dirty shoddy construction to go along with it.
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Re: Irma and Florida
« Reply #54 on: September 12, 2017, 01:50:27 PM »
Word from the daughter. Last night is no damage.  Not even a branch down.  Neighbor across the street had branches down and interior water damage.
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Re: Irma and Florida
« Reply #55 on: Today at 02:42:56 AM »
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Re: Irma and Florida
« Reply #55 on: September 12, 2017, 02:00:12 PM »
Not perfect, Mike, but I'd settle for that.  =)))
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Re: Irma and Florida
« Reply #56 on: September 12, 2017, 05:07:21 PM »
Quote from: MikeBjerum on September 12, 2017, 01:50:27 PM
Word from the daughter. Last night is no damage.  Not even a branch down.  Neighbor across the street had branches down and interior water damage.

Great news!
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Re: Irma and Florida
« Reply #57 on: September 12, 2017, 09:16:26 PM »
I am so glad the storm gulped some dry air.  If that thing had been what it was thought to be.....

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Re: Irma and Florida
« Reply #58 on: September 13, 2017, 03:20:32 PM »
Quote from: Rastus on September 12, 2017, 09:16:26 PM
I am so glad the storm gulped some dry air.  If that thing had been what it was thought to be.....

Yep.

Glad CR, Haz, and Mike's folks fared well..... Hope Les did as well.

It hit with way less brutality than originally forecast in southern Georgia.
Our church opened a Good Samaritan shelter during the storm, with fifty or so folks that came in. We worked there until around 11 PM Sunday and went home (2 miles away) for some shut-eye. We went back early Monday morning before the worst of it hit to prepare and serve breakfast and rode it out there.

There was not as much damage to homes as anticipated, and power outage was the main problem. The church had partial outage until around noon today. We were without power at the house for around 36 hours (got it back at 6 PM yesterday, thankfully not long enough for our three freezers to start thawing deer meat). I've lived on this property for nearly fifty years and this was the longest span of power loss that I can remember. There are still some folks without power.

I can see a generator purchase in the near future (at least large enough to power the camper and freezers).

We have a lot pf pecan tree limbs down (some of considerable size) on our property, but none on any buildings (thankfully).

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Re: Irma and Florida
« Reply #59 on: September 13, 2017, 03:32:23 PM »
The good fortune the Tampa area received, was paid back in spades by those living in the Jacksonville / Middleburg / Palatka area. That area in and around the St. Johns River has seen some of the worst flooding in the last 170 years. And remember, that was over 400 miles, and 24 hours from where it made it's original landfall in the Keys.
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