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Yup that's where I live. This is my house. This is located about 400ft from all those videos.
My shit was built like a bomb shelter but that's sort of a moot point considering everything in a 2 mile radius is gone
Note: it's painted mint green. That orange shit is sandblasting from the wind
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You can see my house in this video and see anything made of wood is gone. There was no free space on this beach. Any beach front plot adjacent to remaining buildings had a wooden home on it.
You can barely even tell. There's not even the support beams left
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Apropos of nothing, basically the area in the video above was the single most congested/worst traffic experience I’ve ever had, multiple times in one vacation
They just put in some new traffic lights to help that, but they belong to the jellyfish now
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That looks in way better shape than I was expecting. Good building.
@Jasconius I'm up in the Clearwater area if you need a place to stay, I have a spare bedroom. Must love dogs though :P
I'm given to understand saltwater is just horrifically corrosive in the long term, so... yeah. I could it needing the first floor to be gutted or something to replace stuff in the walls.
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They're rated for 200mph impact. The foundation is on steel reinforced concrete pylons driven around 100 feet into the earth.
There's a 3 foot squared thick steel reinforced beam that the living area sits across
The garage walls are designed to give out so the storm surge doesn't rock the whole building, while the foundation beams remain in place... That's why I'm pretty sure my car is in the ocean because it probably did a koolaid man maneuver on the back wall
It will definitely need an engineering review but it's likely salvageable.
We still don't know how high the water got but it looks like it stopped just short of the middle floor which is where all the good stuff was. Probably will find out tomorrow, communication with the island is not available without satellite afaik.
Right now we're planning on packing anything that isn't wet and leaving the state for the rest of the school year at minium.
Appreciate any offers but we're lucky to have options so we'll be taken care of. It's mostly just the surprise factor. This was absolutely not predicted pretty much up until the morning of landfall. We were debating staying as late as Monday night
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This article confirms some of my suspicions, a lot of people stayed and a lot of people died.
The local lore is that Estero was traditionally not impacted heavily by surge and there wasn't even a stern prediction of surge until it was nearly too late, a lot of people probably stayed on that basis
I suspect dozens dead at least
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Friend in punta Gorda where storm officially made landfall survived but their home was having their exterior walls bow in four whole inches from wind pressure. They were probably close to structural failure.
That guy is actually the guy who built my home so you can imagine he knows how to build a strong house so his house was near failure
My neighbor two doors down decided to ride it out. If you think my stuff looks scary, my neighbor has three story ground to ceiling windows facing the storm surge. They all held.
He recorded a video that confirms I probably didn't take on water in my living room. Going to try to get on the island tomorrow to salvage.
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Got to go visit my parents in Port Charlotte this weekend as their house got hit pretty hard. My brother is coming down from Michigan with some supplies to help fix the roof so that's helpful.
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when it rains it pours i guess
The pier is important to me!
Early in my relationship with my wife, we went to eat at some place in Ft Myers Beach then walked the beach and ended up at the end of the pier. It started raining and then it started raining HARD and we were stuck on the pier but we just kind of stood there and held each other and kissed and basically really fell in love.
Afterwards we found out it had been a bad storm and a tornado had knocked out power in the area. We had no idea.
Anyway, I hope it’s still there
The pylons are still there, but the actual pier is gone.
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AFAIK we still don’t really know the scope of destruction on the islands because all the causeways were wiped out and power isn’t restored?
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It lost a lot of intensity getting misshaped and broken up over Florida, not enough time or conditions to reform it…still ~85mph winds and several feet of surge though hitting a coast that iirc hasn’t been hit in decades and has built up several fold since….lots of warning for these folks too….hope it’s a lot less impactful/deadly
This is how it was after Michael and how it tends to be in general whenever a low/cold front rolls through.
extremely extremely extremely thick
remember star trek 4 where they have to get the whales
its pretty much like that. also that house is ugly as motherfuck and having giant windows like that probably costs them literally thousands of dollars a year in cooling even though they are tinted.
i hate that fucking house so much but it is by far the best looking structure left on the island ironically
anyway im back from hell. while i was driving back "home" a dam burst near the interstate and I missed being trapped in hell by probably only 30 minutes.
will post some shit soon. tl;dr most of my families stuff survived. but there are probably only a few dozen people who can even say that.
nearly everything is destroyed and the drone shots and stuff you're seeing on the news doesn't even remotely explain what has happened because they're not letting media on the island, so you're only getting foot traffic cell phone videos
its extremely fucking bad.
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there is nothing directly bad in these photos other than the heavily implied loss of life you're already seeing on the news
A pretty typical view... so on the drone shots it was like... oh okay, there's still SOME buildings... but almost every building that is still standing actually just looks like this, where you can see straight through it and its just the interior frame. Every street has roughly this level of debris pile also with 8 foot piles of sand they scraped off the streets. at first it was thought that the roads washed away, but actually they were just beneath very thick layer of sand ........ https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/253601352192753664/1025596322209873980/IMG_5398.jpg .... https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/253601352192753664/1025596321731727441/IMG_5396.jpg
kind of hard to tell from the shadows but i took this photo because with the naked eye you could see inside that the second story of these buildings, which were used for storage and utility, had collapsed in, reinforcing the notion that much of what is left standing is actually just a shell. A different angle in the second photo shows the brown building on the right had its 2nd story completely come down and the building is tilted backward .... https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/253601352192753664/1025596321295499264/IMG_5386.jpg https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/253601352192753664/1025596320767029248/IMG_5408.jpg
So this view is pretty crazy to me, I already knew from the drone shots, but it cannot be emphasized enough, what you would normally see here is just the first in a literal 4 or 5 layer deep rows of restaurants... all made of at least brick. these were pretty sturdy buildings. completely vaporized. the only clue there were buildings at this location was I could see 3 or 4 broken support pylons of what used to be the Dairy Queen, pictured center-left on the horizon. ...... https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/253601352192753664/1025596318871199744/IMG_5412.jpg
This plot of sand was one of my neighbors across the street. This was a two story bungalow of appreciable size. The conspicuously bare piece of sand in center of frame was roughly the center of the building. There is little evidence the house existed other than the 3 pieces of PVC pipe sticking up from the ground left center which connected the house to the city water/sewer. You can also see the lip of a concrete driveway. Other than that its entirely gone. We don't know for sure but we believe at least one person was in this house during the storm. ... https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/253601352192753664/1025596266215911444/IMG_5416.jpg
A neighbors house under construction... I was going to say I have no idea how this thing survived but actually I do... this is built to the modern code. So even a half done building to code is stronger than a complete one to the old codes. Right of fame you can see a tree that was completely debarked on all sides before being knocked over. You could see entirely debarked trees as far as 2 miles inland. .... https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/253601352192753664/1025596265750347836/IMG_5421.jpg
My aunts car which was parked about 15 feet from the house. It was picked up and smashed against the front facade of the building with enough force to produce the damage shown. I didn't get a picture but there's a large gash on the facade marking the impact several feet up in the air. ... actually I can't post this photos because it has the license plate in it. Imagine a smashed up toyota camry. RIP toyota.
The interior of the garage of my home. There was a large amount of stuff in here. This was used as storage for not only the entire family but also friends of the family. It was very full. There was hardly anything left in it. The sand on the floor was literally ice slick. My neighbor wiped out hard and sprained his knee. The drywall of the ceiling was mostly stripped away, indicative of the water level .... https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/253601352192753664/1025596265016336424/IMG_5434.jpg
My car... I was really hoping this thing punched a hole through the wall and had its viking funeral, but unfortunately it was so small and light that I don't think it could get enough momentum to break through. I left the doors closed so something popped it open. Considering how much stuff was surrounding this thing there was shockingly few dents on it. But I'm pretty sure it cannot be salvaged. RIP F. .... https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/253601352192753664/1025596264563363901/IMG_5442.jpg
Views from my balcony door, sandblasted and smudged. Not an incredible shot but I didn't feel like testing the structural integrity of my balcony. Roughly behind the pillar is the now empty site of a vacation rental. You can get an idea of the debris field in the canal. The water was slicked with gas and oil. From this point you could hear the sound of dozens of fire alarms going off from every direction, it was ringing in my ears for hours after I left. In one of the photos, the house across the canal, beige color, boarded up windows, I believe this man stayed and rode out the storm. Judging by the condition of his house I think he survived, one of the very few wooden houses I saw that looked structurally sound .... https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/253601352192753664/1025596264232001556/IMG_5452.jpg https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/253601352192753664/1025596263883870218/IMG_5458.jpg
One last parting shot of the garage. What you would have normally seen here other than my car is just furniture... family and friends depositing their furniture here for storage, you couldn't see the back wall at all... it all found a way to worm its way through that back door and out to sea. ... https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/253601352192753664/1025596263544148008/IMG_5470.jpg
Walking back, you could see deep sea shrimping boats, some nearly the size of victorian frigates, picked up out of the water and brought a few hundred feet inland. There were large 100+ foot yachts and fishing boats washed up onto land and the roads for nearly a mile inland. ... https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/253601352192753664/1025596263154073641/IMG_5483.jpg
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Aw man, this is insane
Yeah people might see all the sun and sand and think FMB was one of those big, open beaches instead of an insanely-densely developed town- 98% buildings and 2% sand
The fact that you see the sun instead of shade from buildings/trees itself speaks to how much was leveled, yikes
Yeah fmb was a real city. It has a library, a school, a YMCA type community center, a full grocery store, my goddamn dentist has their office beach side (dentist was out of town, building gone). There are many people who lived their entire lives front to back on that island.
It was 110% fully developed.
Official death toll just went up today to 60. The word on the street death toll is already almost 200.
Let me tell you, they haven't even started digging yet. It's going to be a big number.
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