Milton

[ZAG]

All my family is heading out of st pete. My mom’s place is just off the inter coastal and was lucky to escape the last one with no damage. My uncle’s got nailed as he’s right on the inter coastal. They literally have been basically gutting the house and now heading out of town.

The place we stay at every Feb said they probably won’t be operational for 6 months. 

Edited October 8 by ZAG

[Lawdwaz]

Good luck to all of them.  My dad & step mom are in Estero, cousin is in Tampa and aunt & uncle in Venice.   Know of many others on that coast….prayers to all.  

[Rusty]

Wishing them well!  

[ZAG]

Here’s a pic of his front yard the other day. 
 

[phade]

We have relatives in Dunedin, Pinellas Park, St. Pete, and then over on the right coast in Stuart. My 90 yo grandmother just flew back home there Saturday. She had been up here for a couple months. My dad went and got her to take back to Stuart. The others are hunkering down. My aunt’s house somehow has seemed to escape anything devastating - she is on the same street the Blue Jays Spring Training stadium is which is within eyes of the water. Can’t imagine she has much more than a foot or two above sea level.

[Robhuntandfish]

My parents moved back from Florida to NY because of the weather.  Between the hurricanes and the heat NY winters werent so bad. Especially when the summers and fall are so nice.   Good luck to all that have family there. 

[MPHunter]

My wife has an aunt that lives in Naples. They just finished reconstructing their house from the 6 feet of water they had in it from Irma in 2017. They have evacuated up to Savannah to stay with my sister-in-law.

[mowin]

Double whammy for sure.  Praying for all. 

[blackbeltbill]

  Hope everyone gets out and does not ignore Evacuation reports o. Their Local News.  Hoping No Pets are Left Behind.

[blackbeltbill]

McDill Air Force Base is Located just 8 Miles from Tampa. Hope all Military Personnel get evacuated.  

[dbHunterNY]

My parent's have a couple cars packed up, boat strapped down on what's left of the boat lift, everything boarded up best they could. They're a single story right on the Gulf in Hudson. Helene flooded and destroyed the whole street that's higher than the rest of the neighborhood. At least there's still a shell of a house left along with their neighbors. Milton with the high winds could be different. Might not be anything left other than patio and a foundation. I can't wish it to shift because someone else will just get hit. I hope by an act of God it fizzles long before it meets land.

[dbHunterNY]

@ZAG It's ironic that before and especially after this, once nice looking streets and homes are going to look like Ukraine or a 3rd world poverty stricken area.

[phade]

12 minutes ago, dbHunterNY said:

@ZAG It's ironic that before and especially after this, once nice looking streets and homes are going to look like Ukraine or a 3rd world poverty stricken area.

And it is only going to create havoc with insurance costs. The downstream impacts of these two storms is going to be huge. At some point I can see the government having to get involved or the free market is going to put coastal living into an even higher income bracket - more separation of the have vs have not. I have a few acquaintances who had insurance hikes of absolutely insane amounts in SC where they own apartments / condos. Part of that was driven by codifying fixes for the building that collapsed but it was atmospheric. Having a $1500 mortgage note for example with a $3-400 month insurance cost went to  a $1,300 per month INCREASE alone. On a spacious 1/1. Imagine what these carriers are going to do - they pull out or have massive increases on top of massive increases from the codifying issue from the year prior. 

Edited October 8 by phade

[ZAG]

13 minutes ago, phade said:

And it is only going to create havoc with insurance costs. The downstream impacts of these two storms is going to be huge. At some point I can see the government having to get involved or the free market is going to put coastal living into an even higher income bracket - more separation of the have vs have not. I have a few acquaintances who had insurance hikes of absolutely insane amounts in SC where they own apartments / condos. Part of that was driven by codifying fixes for the building that collapsed but it was atmospheric. Having a $1500 mortgage note for example with a $3-400 month insurance cost went to  a $1,300 per month INCREASE alone. On a spacious 1/1. Imagine what these carriers are going to do - they pull out or have massive increases on top of massive increases from the codifying issue from the year prior. 

Self insure had become much more relevant in recent yrs.

[dbHunterNY]

6 minutes ago, phade said:

And it is only going to create havoc with insurance costs. The downstream impacts of these two storms is going to be huge.

my understanding is that it's not just insurance. building code kicks in if you're reconstructing enough of the house it's bummed into new construction code. i know here in NY we call it "alteration level". what was a ground floor now has to be up on "stilts" with ground floor break away walls not structurally tied into components of the acting foundation. i'm not familiar enough with Florida code to know the specifics though to make that happen.