Lisa Grundmann
3 hours ago
Chilli 🐕🦺🐾 and i are sending prayers your way from Melbourne Australia, to everyone in Florida and surrounding areas.
The ‘horrific reality’ appears to be mostly storm surge damage. Most large structures are still standing, a lot of srorm debris blown around. News does seem to coming in very slowly. I suppose the press whores are disappointed that there are no pictures of alligators devouring bodies of drowned victims in the ruins.
Hope the FReepers who live down there where the hurricane
hit are not as badly affected as it looks like they may
have been.
this damage is from storm surge combined with high tide.
if the CAT-4 winds they were advertising were at ground level, there would’ve been nothing left of the surrounding neighborhoods but piles of lumber
In the first place, I don’t consider Ft. Myers a coastal City. Ft. Myers Beach is, but they are miles apart and Ft. Myers is up river quite a ways from the Beach and the Gulf.
Almost every photo is from Ft Myers Beach, and there may be one of Naples which is a lot closer to the Gulf than Ft. Myers itself.
Those taking photos of damage are seemingly willing to deceive the public as to where the pics are actually being taken. I have not seen yet damage related to Ft. Myers itself. That by no means should indicate there is none.
Now, perhaps more people on the Florida coast will drive EVs, so they’re protected against this happening again.
(don’t laugh...we’ll all soon be forced to do the same)
My aunt has a winter place in Ft Myers. The condo survived but she suffered a horrific loss. Her classic Corvette was destroyed.
We have no control over mother nature or or the climate changing.
My son lives inland in Naples, Florida. He had hardly any damage, unlike with hurricane Irma. There was no flooding and he never lost power. During Irma he had trees knocked down and the wind embedded a 2 x 4 into his roof. His Father-in-law lives a few miles closer to downtown Naples and he just lost power.