Florida Hurricane I'm in the path
Well my first hurricane. I am right on the edge of the evacuation area of Cedar Key. Just bought a winter home in Florida. It needed a roof badly and I was proactive going into contract with a roo...
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NYCgrrl wrote:lap527 wrote:
One homeless guy in Ocala got killed from a tree that fell on his tent during the storm. On the local news every night there are reports about the huge clean up and the devastating effects from the storm. Churches and organizations are pitching in to help feed people. The place, Cedar Key, looks like a bomb went off. It might be awhile before things get close to normal. So sad...
Thank goodness the death total is so low. Sounds like most heeded the storm warnings.
I wasn't aware of that death until reading this post. You have to wonder why he didn't seek shelter.
By all accounts, the storm was pretty minor. I know some folks who live in that Cedar Key area (and are lifelong residents), and they more/less brushed it off. Storm surge is what did the most damage, but that's kind of an inevitable fact of life when you're building homes/structures at ground level within eyeshot of the ocean (or in some cases, edge of the ocean). As is the case with many small coastal towns in our region, the residents are mostly folks who moved from somewhere else and only have a very short history (15 years or less) of living there.
But thankfully we have 24/7 news media that never seems to fail to make every incident seem like the worst thing that's ever happened.
