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The trash has been lined up in our streets for over 11 days now. There's so much storm debris from last time, I haven't really seen any efforts to clean that up. So I don't know, [we are] kind of on our own here,
If at any time I feel threatened, I do have a life jacket I'll be wearing and I'm hoping to just kind of swim out. I've moved all my vehicles the past couple of days to higher, high-and-dry locations. So hopefully I can just kind of swim over to one of those and hang tight while the water recedes,
I've been recovering all week, removing drywall, and then the entire downstairs, my house was decimated. That's all sitting at the curb now. The city of Tampa told us to leave it on bag. So I have all this loose construction debris. My big concern is that debris clogging any kind of drainage systems and causing more problems or becoming missiles and or projectiles and damaging other property and things,
I wanted to fill up my tank. I had about half a tank and just want to top it off…it took 10 stations. They all have plastic over the pumps, and once I found an open station…folks [were] not lining up properly in queue people screaming, honking the horn. And the storm hasn't even got here yet. So terrifying,
Some of my neighbors have smaller children. For me, it's just me. My house is my livelihood, so I plan on hunkering down. But I have seen other folks leave,
They are looking around and saying, 'what the hell is this?'
said Montagne, whose clients include finance industry executives who migrated to Florida during COVID I've been living here for 10 years, and the hurricanes have missed me for 10 years,
said Brian Hyndman, president and CEO of Blue Ocean We took the plunge with our eyes wide open,
said Jack Ablin, chief investment officer at $52 billion Chicago-based Cresset Asset Management, about his move to Palm Beach on Florida's east coast in 2015. It really is life changing in so many tragic ways,
They know how to help people access resources for mobility, transportation, housing, and basic necessities during this crisis. It's important to reach out and understand that there are people available, willing, and able to assist, including those who need help with medical care or have physical disabilities and require extra assistance,
As you are possibly packing up & leaving Tampa /Clearwater / St Pete I will be heading to you,
I wish I could say that Manatee County is a unique case, but unfortunately it isn't,
The Supreme Court has said that when you incarcerate someone, when you take away their ability to fend for themselves, you take on a number of affirmative obligations toward them (...) one of which is to provide reasonable safety,
We are definitely at that point where the weather is just deteriorating from here on,
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Rates are going to continue to just go up and up, insurers could go bankrupt and Citizens will be on the hook to pick up that much more of the slack,
said Sam Boyd, a Sotheby's real estate adviser in Melbourne, Florida We will always be in a position to pay claims,
spokesman Michael Peltier said on Tuesday In a couple months, once the weather gets nice, people are going to start coming down, sight unseen,
said Bruce Loren, a Palm Beach lawyer who specializes in high-end real estate These are additional risks that, based on the fundamental principles of insurance, should not be present,
said Martin Weiss, founder of the independent Weiss Ratings analysis firm Just know that it can be a process, and in a situation like this one where potentially many others could be affected, you may have to be prepared to wait to speak with a representative to share your details,