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We have all the things, but we’re about two streets over from a creek that feeds out to the bay, and we are just really scared of storm surge right now. So we had been planning on staying here, but we don’t want to be in a situation where we have to get rescued in the middle of the night with an infant and a toddler,
I would love to leave, but my husband has a business here and our families are both here. When you’re in the community and it’s established, and both of our families are here, it’s a bit trickier in that sense.”
There’s a disconnect between what people think they’re going to get and what they actually get,
Because we don’t live in a flood zone, we don’t have flood insurance. And that’s another thing that is hard to deal with. If our house does flood and we have a storm surge, what do we do?”
A significant portion of the losses from this hurricane are likely to go uninsured, leaving the individual property owner responsible for paying for repairs,
Because we saw how bad the water was [during Helene], we ended up investing in the reusable sandbags. Most of the hurricanes that I have gone through were never this bad. I think this last hurricane, Helene, is kind of what woke everyone up. That’s the worst I’ve ever seen. I’ve never seen a storm surge like that, and I’ve never seen people lose their homes like that in Florida,
Literally the day after we got home from the hospital, Helene hit. We got very lucky with that, and did not have any damage from the storm surge, but our area got totally decimated,
Marcella, a schoolteacher, said I haven’t even got to enjoy this place for a year,
We had to do so much research and find insurance that wasn’t going to rip us off. Because it was so expensive, we ended up going with one that was honestly one of the cheaper options, but it does include what we would need,
Fema is great for what Fema is. Fema is a disaster response organization, so they come in after a disaster and help, but they are not made by mission to make people whole. So anyone that thinks that the feds are going to come and help them and they are going to recover are probably misinformed.”
Before any of us were even able to assess the damages to our homes, we were preyed upon by people driving around, waiting for us to throw away our sewage-soaked belongings,
Milton is set to come through, and there's nothing left to protect. The timing couldn't be worse,
I originally shared the video to document the devastation and thank those helping us. I had no idea the signs would take over TikTok and become a major talking point,
The furniture tested positive for Vibrio bacteria, a deadly superbug,
We had a 5-foot storm surge, causing massive destruction. All single-story homes, like ours, lost everything,
Conover told Newsweek, recalling how houses were submerged in water up to the kitchen countertops It was like a violation—people were picking through what was our lives, just 24 hours before,
The biggest concerns on the ground is that my district is still recovering from Hurricane Helene just over a week ago, and we had storm surge of five to seven feet that flooded the first floor of homes, if it was a one story home, it flooded the home."
Steube, who represents a congressional district in southwest Florida that includes Sarasota and Charlotte counties and is home to about 850,000 people, added We had a tremendous devastating hurricane [Helene] pass by us two weeks ago with lots of storm surge and flooding damage, so the folks on North Beach in Clearwater who were the most damaged, they got the message, so I did not have to encourage very hard for them to get out of their single family dwelling homes,
While you have the chance now, get out, especially if you're on a barrier island,
Alpert told "National Report." A 10-foot or 15-foot storm surge is not just dangerous at the point of where it breaches the beach or where it breaches some sort of a seawall,