Paradise is still paradise, despite this mess,
He basically said, you know, you guys are doing a great job. We’re here for you,
We think it’s morally and heavily wrong to watch not only the community that you manage and operate, but that you’re supposed to care for, lose absolutely everything to their name and still demand money,
We are working with utility companies to restore power and referring residents to key resources that are available at all levels of government including FEMA,
Scoop up some of that mud and smell that — that’s what our house smells like,
These last two hurricanes was the worst thing that’s happened here,
It’s just been one thing after another,
All of us have had enough heartbreak in our life,
The storm surge, which was so feared, didn’t happen because it [the storm] went a little south,
The tornadoes … were really kind of supercharged compared to the typical tornadoes you see in a hurricane environment,
The storms you now get grow into monster extreme weather events rather quickly,
Some people don’t have time to prepare, and then they just cause more damage,
I wasn't going to take a chance on it,
I love my house, but I’m not dying in it,
Helene likely provided a stark reminder of how vulnerable certain areas are to storms, particularly coastal regions,
I’m sure there are people in Florida thinking, ‘This is it, I’m moving’, and people that have been considering moving to Florida thinking, ‘No, I’m not going to go, there’s just too many hurricanes’,
A lot of people are being displaced, maybe their homes are damaged, they can’t get back to them, and along the coast some of them have been swept away,
I don’t know of any offices that have been affected so badly they’re not operational, I think the only thing they’re looking at right now is power, the actual buildings are OK,
A $225-$250bn loss from Helene and another $160-180bn from Hurricane Milton is close to almost half a trillion dollars. The GDP of the US is $26tn, so this combined loss is nearly 2% [of that],
Just when you started getting a little bit of normalcy after Helene, when things started to maybe stabilize, you turned around and had to deal with this other menacing storm, Hurricane Milton,