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Paradise is still paradise, despite this mess,
said Pat Hurst, who along with her husband Bill has lived on Siesta Key, a barrier island near Tampa, since 2011 and has been visiting for over two decades He basically said, you know, you guys are doing a great job. We’re here for you,
he said when asked about his conversations with Biden 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,
tenant Jesse Hancock said Saturday Scoop up some of that mud and smell that — that’s what our house smells like,
Hancock said, pointing to the sewage-tainted mud that remained on the road outside their wrecked home 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,
Shawn Halladay said in an email Tuesday These last two hurricanes was the worst thing that’s happened here,
said 61-year-old James William Lawson Jr., who has been living in a tent on his plot and only goes inside his ruined trailer to get water because the mold is so bad It’s just been one thing after another,
said Menegias, who has lived at the Twin City mobile home park for 11 years All of us have had enough heartbreak in our life,
Tampa Bay did not get the surge that everyone feared, but what you ended up seeing is just massive — on the north side of the storm — huge amounts of water,
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,
Michael Brennan, director of the National Hurricane Center in the United States, told CNN The storms you now get grow into monster extreme weather events rather quickly,
Susan Glickman with the CLEO Institute, a nonprofit dedicated to climate education and advocacy, told Al Jazeera Some people don’t have time to prepare, and then they just cause more damage,
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’,
said Ken Johnson, chair in real estate at the University of Mississippi’s school of business 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,
said Travis Hart, president of the Florida Supervisors of Elections organization that represents supervisors in all 67 counties 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],
Joel Myers, founder and executive president of AccuWeather, said in the estimate 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,
Florida’s Republican governor Ron DeSantis said on Friday at yet another of a furious succession of briefings he has conducted over the last two weeks in the most impacted areas That’s one good thing about Florida, we’ve been here before. We kind of operate on the unprecedented, we’re resilient, we will bounce back,
That may wipe out all expected growth in the economy over that period,