Inspecting Fort Myers Beach Progress After Hurricane IAN Devastation
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- Опубликовано: 10 май 2024
- Some interesting information about Fort Myers Beach from a local resident post Hurricane IAN. This is stuff you may find helpful from a FMB Island Resident and one of the Founders of Remove It Pros.
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Thank you for driving around showing us how the progress is going! I’ve been searching for a video like this, and I really appreciate it. It’s nice to see the palms and greenery! I think the most depressing thing right after the storm was how brown and dead it all looked. Although they have a long way to go, I see life. Thanks again!
I have a new video out this next week or so ran my drone over the whole island.
Thanks for the update. Still so much devastation almost two years later and just in time for what is predicted to be a busy hurricane season 2024😮🙏
Yes I am not happy about the predictions my house is 50 feet from the ocean.
@@removeitprosdemolition let’s hope the predictions are wrong and any storms stay away. Stay Safe 🙏
Just ran across your channel As a long time (45 yrs) SoFlo resident Andrew and irma impacted our lives. I love love love your content. I will be watching, liking, commenting and sharing.
thank you so much. What a compliment I appreciate it
Oh my! From the mid ‘90’s to 2012, my husband and I would rent a condo on the Beach for a week or so each October. My husband was a Delta Air Lines employee in Orlando. We fell in love with Ft. Myers Beach. ….. I appreciate seeing this video. It breaks my heart in so many ways. But I hope & prayer the recovery will continue. Good to see a couple of familiar spaces. 🥺❤️🌻
Thanks for the comment.
Seems crazy to rebuild when it's pretty certain to be destroyed again 🤷♂️
Houses built to the 2005 code did fine.
@@removeitprosdemolition so everyone gets an upgrade to 2005 building code on the insurance companies dime? I guess that's why it's becoming impossible to get insurance in the state yes?
@@donnicholson3170 No they don't pay for it. Maximum policy for flood is $250,000. Can't do much with $250,000, if you wind insurance paid out it was more but they weren't paying out much. From what I was told.
The things you show and talk about are exactly why we left Pensacola. One major hurricane and it's setbacks for years. Saw it in Panama City after Michael.
I understand. I am still willing to brave it at this point, may change if it happens again soon....
It's still jacked up there. I got sent up there days after Michael hit. Was up there passing through a couple of weeks ago, and there are still areas that haven't even started to recover. Unfortunately for them, it's the panhandle. There's not much money up there so no attention.
Thank you so much for the update. So much devastation from 1 storm, (the power of water is just amazing) and so much work to be done to bring it all back. After all You're still knocking down stuff a year and a half later, just to get things back to 0. I live in Northeast Fla, and by the grace of God they all go around us, but we watch them all when they are around, and that could very easily be us for everything east of the intercoastal waterway. Keep doing the videos.
So true! I am glad for you.
I feel Naples got hit as hard. We have a condo on Vanderbilt Beach and we had 10 feet of water go through the first floor at 30 MPH. Wiped everything out. Just starting to rebuild. Permitting has been a nightmare.
Not arguing fore sure drive FMB then drive Naples, you will see a big difference. My house got 6 feet in and I had 13 rentals flood......I feel your pain.
You are not evenly remotely close in saying Naples got hit as bad as FMB. Some yes got hit nothing compared to FMB.
You may have had damage I am not disputing that but to compare the two is ridiculous. Ft Myers Beach was wiped out and so many people died. So sad!
@@vickimae3802 😇
I have a concrete block home built in the center of the state. It would be too nerve wracking living on the coast worrying about every hurricane that comes along. One minute you are in the cone the next you are not. It’s the stress that would wear me out. I have built my own tropical oasis on my 3 acres, no worries about serious hurricane damage. I just drive to the beach once in a while when I feel the urge to see it,
Thank you for the update. I went to Ft. Myers Beach for the very first time right before the Hurricane. So appreciate that I was able to see it before. Someday I will be back hopefully.
I have a new video out this next week or so ran my drone over the whole island.
Thank you - by far the best follow-up video of your area...omg hard to even imagine!
I have a new video coming out. Probably this saturday, and it is a drone of the while island.
Great video and info, thanks for this update!
Our pleasure!
Thanks for the video man. Excellent info.
Very sad as I've spent a fair amount of time there when visiting from up North
Glad you enjoyed it. I have a new video out this next week or so droning the whole island.
Thanks for the update Dave. So sad about loss of life 😢
You bet
Thank you so much for doing this. This is the first current update I’ve seen. I’m angry that people haven’t cleaned up their properties.
City government needs to action! Again, thank you!!
Your welcome. Are you a local? Thanks for watching.
@@removeitprosdemolition , no , I’m on the GA Coast. So I follow hurricanes. For good reason.
I was with you until you said some fake ass god told you to leave. Ridiculous nonsense get real
@@n6a6me6jebus , you didn’t mean me I hope. Not a God person,but a great believer in listening to your gut!
@@Sushi2735 okay fair enough just can't deal with the feeble minds out there I did enjoy your video thank you for doing it
Great video - thank you!
My pleasure!
Hi from Cape Coral. Thanks for the update. My grandmother owned at cottage center of the island on beach side. Great memories. Sad but it's gone like so many of the others.
Oh wow! So sad som many of the building that gave Fort Myers Beach its character are gone.
Thank You Dave you speak in terms that I appreciate, guess it's the Contractor connection. Just a tourist for the last 35+ years to FMB but I do care deeply about it.
It's a long healing process.
Thanks for that update.
Any time!
Just imagine if it wound up in the mouth of Tampa Bay like it was supposed to before dropping south. The effect it had on FMB was devastating but had it taken its initial expected path the damage would be far more profound and hundreds more would be dead. Thanks for a solid video Dave!
Yes many Of my neighbors lost their lives. They didn't pay attention because we get so many false Alarms it's so sad
Thanks for the update. Would be really nice to have a little picture and picture in the corner or before/after right after the storm of the same scenes.
Noted.
Coming down in a few weeks and staying at GullWing. Our family there has their new home on stilts going up now. Looking forward to our trip and supporting Ft Myers Beach.
Welcome, its getting better everyday!!
I was here back in March on vacation, stopped by for a bike ride, was strange seeing all the empty lots where houses once stood.
I ride my bike here all the time and it still jumps out at the amount of building that are gone......
These condo HOA associations , are notorious for deferring regular maintenance. You will be surprised how many we have done work on that are in total structural deterioration. Many of the northerners want to live here , but do not want to pay the monies for the upkeep, were not educated about the regular maintenance needed on the coast when purchasing, and just a lot of people’s not wanting to pay greater costs for the upkeep because they waited too long to maintain. Not to mention many of the HOAs we have delt with have much interior fighting and cannot get a solid vote for the repairs. Nice to see it looking much better. We were on Sanibel for Mother’s Day and it was great to see the comeback, also sad to see the lack of comebacks from other condos. Thanks for sharing!
Yes, sir. I've seen it and I was involved in a condominium association. And nobody could get along. And the deferred maintenance, it was long long overdue. And this one is not quite 25 years old yet, but it will be next year. I don't know what to say, it's. It's a bad situation.
Very interesting summation of the devastating effects of Ian. My big concern now is that the water temperature is on for more heat this summer. It goes without saying that this hurricane season will be the earliest ever and no doubt the most important ever.
Its nerve racking for sure!!!
Depressing 😢 But I really do appreciate the update -thanx
It's sad I see it everyday!!
Thanks for posting the update / current status of recovery. Seems the first floor of these buildings would have to be designed as sacrificial.
That's how FEMA views it current code does not allow building on the ground floor.
Thanks for the video. I have been wondering how you guys are doing down there. We were staying at Matanzas for a wedding and left the day before the hurricane. Very sad what happened.
Montanza's got their stuff back together pretty quickly. Their main restaurant is not open yet.
Our hospital in Galveston island got hit hard in 2008 with high water but not as bad as there. Smartly they relocated all important IT infrastructure to upper floors and or further inland to offsite data centers so we can still keep things running if another big storm comes one day.
Smart move!!
Great video!! Could you show the north side of the island up by the pink shell sometime?
Yes coming up.
I believe it took Homestead,after Andrew about 10 years to really recover..Thanks for sharing.Alot of people arent aware it takes years to recover,and with the new rules ,it might take longer.
I went throw Andrew, my house was 1/4 mile inland, took over 16 months to get back in the house. I would say foliage took 10 years to recoup, but not structures, with the exception of those that just did not bother to rebuild.
Thanks for the info
I used to own property near the beach in Florida for about 16 years. It was fun, I’m glad I did it, I won’t do it again.
What area?
Wish you had gone down to the Pink Shell. Spent many summers there as a kid.
Got another video out soon and the pink shell is on it, used my drone over the whole island!!
I worked at a bank on Estero island In The late 70’s , so sad to see the devastation the storm did! 😢
It has changed this area for ever!!!
I use to live there 30 plus years ago worked for the pink porpoise hotel
Is that still here?
@@removeitprosdemolition long gone
Are they planning on rebuilding the pier that got taken out by the hurricane? I loved that pier.❤️
They are, its going to be different trying to make it bigger and indestructible.
Having to do that every year or every other year is overwhelming.
The hurricanes?
I wish jimmy could see his new resort! 😢 I know there are several of them.
I think they did an amazing job. I am thankful that they had something like that to help us. Take the edge off of this disaster. Most people come to Fort Myers Beach for the beaches. But there's not much support businesses out there right now.
I drove through FMB a month ago and was shocked by the devastation. My friend’s house which was across the street from the beach was gone. I wasn’t as bad as Hurricane Andrew though. When it hit, the code was completely ineffective. Publix’s just disintegrated. Whole subdivisions were wiped out. And mobile home parks disappeared without a trace. But this was pretty horrible. A reason why I will never live near the water.
Where were you when hurricane Andrew came through?
Nice place....... for construction workers!
I live here and I agree!!
13:13 - The famous video of the catastrophic storm surge here was shot by a camera strapped to the power pole on the left. In the foreground of this video are three small palm trees next to the driveway for this parking lot; the trees are shown being completely submerged by waves atop the surge. I wondered if the trees had survived and right here I see that two of them did. They are to the left of the "Beach Parking" sign with the flag attached to it. The trunk of the dead tree is still standing, closest to the sign.
It's funny that you talk about that, my wife and I. Rewatched that video a couple of days ago. My house got six foot of water that day.
@@removeitprosdemolition You said that you (very fortunately) evacuated to safety beforehand and therefore escaped the real possibility of dying in the storm surge. But you and I, and many others, have watched the red house in the storm surge video getting knocked off its foundation and gradually breaking up, partly sinking and drifting away while the man, woman and their two dogs inside it somehow managed to survive. Massive storm surges are deadly! Everyone can understand that by seeing the destruction afterwards, but I think you never truly comprehend the reality till you watch a video of it going on.
I remember watching that Live, with the Lani Kai in the background. As the water rose, it just got worse and worse, until the camera was totally submerged.
I cannot get over how much of the beach area has been destroyed by housing. It was a real nice place decades ago
🙃
I can see how it would be appealing to tourists with those beautiful white sands.
The beaches are utterly breathtaking.
Thank you man. I used to stay with friends at the tiny little house beside the Lana kai. The house was tiny and people were living in the rafters…I can’t remember the name of the house. But man we had some great times there. It was a volleyball meca. This was 1989-1991. Anyone know or remember the house?
Yes I do!!
dave, when the cleanup started after the hurricane, where in the world is all of the debris taken to in the area to get rid of? i mean where can all of that stuff be taken to every day for the last year and a half to get rid of it?
I heard a dump in the center of Florida. Its mind blowing the amount of debris that was created.
My friend who lives there and stayed, told me she is splitting in September which is when hurricane season starts.
I can understand that.
Hurricane season starts in May.
The beach is a nice place to visit, but I would not want to live near one. You just never know when a storm surge or a tidal wave is going to destroy every building on or near that beach.
They called this a 500 year storm I hope they are right the ocean is 50 feet from my door.
@@removeitprosdemolition With climate change, the expected times of year for hurricanes have changed too. Ditto for the shift to the south east of "tornado alley" and the locations most likely to have flooding. I am glad I no longer live where hurricanes and storm surges are a risk. Or near forests that are now at increased risk for wildfires.
@@gonefishing3644 I love it here. Even if I have to deal with extreme weather every few years
I was in Ft Myers Beach and Naples in 2023 during the 1st to the 13th of May and again this year, 2024 same dates, flew out of RSW this am.
There is no comparison between the damage. Not even close!
Ft Myers beach was decimated. Open lots on both sides of Estero Blvd that were someone’s home or business. There are multiple condo complexes untouched. Hotels, businesses, homes wiped off the planet. People are still living in trailers on their empty lots, pilings showing where their home use to be. Still hard to look at.
Naples has a few condo complexes still closed down, most are back to full occupancy capacity. Drive Gulf Shore Blvd N or S.
Naples got off easy. Find a trailer anywhere between Gulf Shore and 41 in Naples and I’ll eat my hat.
Completely correct. It's unbelievable how much harder FMB got it. We are improving slowing but surely. Thank you so much for the comment and thanks for watching.
My mom’s friend condo has power but no water yet. It is sad.
That's surprising most the time water is the easiest to get.
I lived in SW Florida for 25 yrs. Moved back to the midwest in 2006. No regrets!
the midwest has been getting alot of tornados lately
I am addicted to the sunshine!!
I was in Fort Myers about 4 months after the hurricane. I could not believe how just a half a mile inland there was (relatively) very little damage. This just goes to show you the vast majority of hurricane damage is because of storm surge not wind.
The water did most of the damage for sure. Insurance companies were fighting most all wind damage.
The City needs to incentivise rebuilding instead of being hard on people. Maybe issue low interest government bonds to rebuild similar to CDD's for new planned communities.
Its sad....it happened but its time to be a good neighbor, this is not a low income area, if you can't afford it anymore sell make your million and move on with your life.
Do they have the labor force to do this work or were they sent back to Mexico?
Labor is plentiful. Skilled labor not so much.
😂😂😂😂!
This will just keep happening again and again.
I hope not I live here
Open outcry auction for the commercial properties anyways. Otherwise starts to look like the USSR of the 1980s. Private residences are one thing rental properties quite another as well. Plus this Hurricane Season 2024(tropical tidbits on RUclips) is setting up real tough looking. Stay safe!
I hope it misses us for al least 10 years I am still worn out from the last hit....
Is it possible to get any deals on lots? it seems the values didn't move much?
I hear there are deal here and there.
"Pilings" ..and "Balconies".
Got it....
It is going to take the better part of a decade to put it all back together. It will improve with each year however. The fear is hurricane season and this year promises to be "busy" in that regard. Improved building standards will do a lot to alleviate potential damage and or to get things back in order faster. Hate to see the old Florida beach cottages go but they just can't withstand a hurricane of that magnitude.
I am anxious about the predictions.
@@removeitprosdemolition Everyone in Florida in high hazard zones should be preparing today. Saturday as you know starts the hurricane season. I hope people take heed and do what is necessary to prepare.
Haven't been there since '18..looks erilly similar to Panama after Micheal..that sucks
yes it impacted us significantly......
Hubris. Someday I may visit but have absolutely no aspirations or the money to live in Florida.
As the locals say visit don't stay.....lol
Great video. However why didn’t you keep going up to the Pink Shell? I’m pretty sure that the recovered quicker than anyone else on the island. Not only quicker, but better.
It definitely recovered quick. Did a follow up video it covers the whole island.
Lived though a few hurricanes ,Mother Nature is a bitch for sure, is there any safe place in Fla.? I don't think so ,but ironically it is the most beautiful .
I am up for one or two more maybe....not ready for any more direct hits...same it was the perfect combination of situations, full moon, high tide and something else I don't remember.
3 million for a lot with a polluted beach out front sounds great I'll take two
There are plenty available....
Guess I can kiss my dream of a house on fort Myers Beach goodbye.
I have a new video out this next week or so droning the whole island.
Even with as many structures as there were here, this is still not a major urban center. One day Florida is going to undergo the catastrophic hit of a major storm like Ian or Michael on a big city, and what he describes will be much, much worse economically. Such a thing will impact the entire state.
Yeah, I know Tampa is always threatening to get hit and it rarely ever gets hit.
Glad to hear standards were beefed up for construction, sure saved some structures. That idea of staying is wrong, it is just not worth risking your life, stuctures can be replaced.
Many passed away so many near misses it makes you brave....
If you evacuate be prepared to be looted. I’ll never evacuate to watch the life I built get washed away from a hotel room far away on tv or a shelter.
@@rickybobby7276 Good point, not much looting was going on. The few valuables from my house I took with me everything else with a couple exceptions was ruined.
From what I’ve seen is that no preventative designs and shore protection mangroves breakwater other barriers. It’s going to happen again.
Mangrove that were here died in IAN, they did bring in a 6 foot berm the entire island. I hope we don't get a near hit for a while. It's depressing!!
Mainstream media hypes up the fear for every potential storm. As a long time coastal resident, i ignore the weather reporting now. Too bad we don't have honest anything anymore.
Odds are in my favor, If I get hit again I will deal with it.....I ain't scared!!
Ignore those warnings at your own peril, smart guy. If you have the bad luck to find yourself in a 10 or 15 foot storm surge, don't expect anyone to risk their own lives to come save yours. If you have the good fortune to survive, you'll be one of the many who swear they will never, ever again think the forecasts are just "hyped up" and decide to stay because they're so tough and strong that no mere hurricane can scare them.
It is going to be a very long time before the island becomes kinda like what it use to be. Government needs to chill and stop rushing entities to build or occupy old buildings especially with the new state requirements.
Its going to take a lot of time and the traffic with 50% or less occupancy is terrible taking and hour or more to get off the island daily....
It's still a "barrier Island" .....a narrow strip of low lying land with one two lane main road right on the Gulf ...... Sea level rise , increased storm severity ....... Hmmmmm
Yes paradise!!!
We get if your insurance company won’t pay you what do you do?
We hired an insurance adjuster
We got a fair amount
All flood no wind
I rode out he hurricane in a 1950 cabin on stilts on FMB. Now where did the storm surge get above 12 feet. 14 feet with wave hight. You keep mentioning 20 ft. It’s 14 feet bro
Depends on what part of the island you were on?
@removeitprosdemolition The elevation on the island runs from three feet, two eleven feet
I think that people that used to live here and people that came here on vacation got to see what a hurricane can really do to property here in a little apprehensive and coming here. It’s left a bad taste in her mouth and reluctantly they’re just afraid of what could happen, and this year it could be even worse in hurricanes. If I knew then what I know now I wouldn’t have even moved here I would’ve just stayed in snow countries where I grew up. See one thing about now it’s about snow you know it’s coming it’s Becca do any damage per say and it goes away it doesn’t get bigger or bad or anything like that hurricane does because you’re in Land. But that’s just my opinion I live down here for 30 years or 30+ years and I see what hurricanes can do?
I love the sun the hurricane are a issue but I am here for life.
crazy market prices, outragous insurance, crazy taxes, 1$k per month Condo fees and hurricanes.. you could not give me a thing on that beach or state. Another Ian is on the way.
I hear you and I just love living on this island. I don't know how many Ian's I can endure. But for now I have a few more in me.
You said your truck ? Didn’t see a truck
I was driving one truck and we passed one of our vans that has our logos on it.
2:30 Kani Jai?
Lani Kai
@@removeitprosdemolition
They must pay Google enough for that typo! Shocked they aren't open- in the early 90s it's really the only place on the beach.
Sad, FMB had a quaintness about it that's gone forever. It'll be nothing but corporate because they'll be the only ones with the money to re-build on the island.
You're hitting the nail on the head.
The key west quaintness is gone
It will get blown away again. No residential building 1/2 mille from tidal zone. It's causing high insurance rates, ruining the beaches and water.
I hope that doesn't happen , I am 50 feet from the water, say this was a 500 year storm.
Thanks for the update, but Please let your assistant film this next time. So you can slow down and concentrate on safe driving.
Thanks for the tip
You would have to pay me to rebuild and even then you couldn’t pay me enough to actually live there.
I am addicted to the sunshine!! Going diving this morning.
To each their own. It is a beautiful place and will be back better than ever.
You still have a lot of work?
Yes
@@removeitprosdemolition I was thinking if I can work out there thank you
Do basic repairs on these buildings. No granite countertops, no S/S appliances, etc. Have homeless from around the country move in only AFTER signing a hold harmless agreement with the condo and the government. I’ll bet they have 30-40k units available which could make a huge dent in the areas homeless population. Then, to STAY in the place, tenants must work a MINIMUM of 30 hours a week, cleaning the building, the grounds, the streets, government buildings, driving garbage collection trucks, whatever. Able bodied have to work. Handicapped people can get a waiver. If the able bodied don’t work they need to spend 30 hours a week MINIMUM taking classes to learn usable skills, like a/c repair, plumbing, carpentry. Handicapped folks can work help lines from home.
Well, you live in a different world than I live in. I can't imagine how that would work. It would be a straight shit show.
Most of the homeless are mentally ill and not equipped to work.
@@removeitprosdemolition and the homeless in our streets now? That’s working for you? I’m trying to come up with solutions to the problems we all face instead of doing the same thing over and over and over. Thanks for your input friend.
@@johnmaxwell4072 Not neging you out..... Its just funny how other people are always needed to pay for the bright ideas. I do my part I am involved daily in helping out those in need. It not convenient and its costly I do my part. It does not involve letting homeless people live in multi million dollar properties that someone else owns.
How many people died in Ft. Meyers during the hurricane? Maybe the area is haunted.
I'm not sure on the total number. There is a lot of speculation that it's a lot higher than what they have. Let the public know. Regarding whether it's haunted or not, hum I have no idea.
So basically people are just going to sell their lot cash out because it's cost to much to build
Some are they values have held strong, many feels it makes room for bigger and better.......traffic it the main concern
@@removeitprosdemolition I was there 2 years ago it's all gone I know you are busy but I feel bad for the people that had small house's on small lots it's going to be hard to build you do a good job for the people
VISIT don't buy ..😁😁😁😁😁
Us Floridians say the same thing, visit please do not stay!!!!!
You cannot expect to reconstruct an entire county when the Governor you continue to re-elect decimates the construction industry by sending the workforce fleeing the state in ONE SINGLE DAY. The insurance industry is corrupted by organized crime also known as Public Adjusters. My family sold 3 homes and left Melbourne Beach and Indialantic October 2023 and will never return. Our money goes 3x as far elsewhere, and the people are much nicer.
What are you talking about? I live in Florida, am building a 2400 square foot addition to my house and have subcontractors swarming my property right now. Building is happening everywhere I look in Orlando and Tampa. When did all the construction workers leave the state, that’s news to me.
I left California in 2016 which is a disaster of a state. Statistically large numbers of people have been moving to Florida over the last 4 years for a reason.
I am with you on that.....we are busy, busy no shortage of workers either.
It just shows you WHO HAS M.O.N.E.Y or a GOOD Insurance Policy and WHO DOESN'T.
We need a NEW System for Disasters. The land should go to the GOVT & then be sold of to a Private Developer who can REDEVELOP THE WHOLE Area!
The piece meal system DOESN'T WORK for such Large Disasters. We need Disaster Reform.
Hum
Not sure it’s constitutional for the government to take private property.
If the governor was a democrat, how many shows would Hannity be hosting on the beach?
Not following you? What's going on?
No sympathy. People should never have built within a thousand feet of ANY body of water. Look at all the waste and upset. And hurricane season starts in five days. It's supposed to be a bad one AGAIN. They are only getting worse.
I hear ya, I am 50 feet from the ocean and wouldn't live anywhere else, I love it!!!