Florida beginning to assess damage from Hurricane Nicole

Florida’s Director of Emergency Management joined Gov. Ron DeSantis Friday to survey property damage with homeowners along Wilbur by the Sea, where several homes collapsed due to the arrival of Hurricane Nicole.

[arliss]

No federal money to rebuild. This is on the owner and their privately funded insurance.

[jakel]

Beach front property at its best. Like a sand castle that washes away

[alexeatonexploresamerica]

These people did to themselves they're the ones who choose to live that close to the ocean I say demolish the houses and build a campground so when a storm comes he hooked the camper up and leave

[vabeach]

24 Millon? One house on the Ocean front is with 2-3 Millon just for the HOUSE

[rehabmax]

The coast is eroding. Those homes are finished. Take the insurance settlement and move (out of Florida)..

[alexeatonexploresamerica]

This is the ocean's way of setting your building too close to me

[tyleredwards]

So our Florida emergency manager wants to make it easy for all these people to rebuild their homes and focus on them. Doesn’t mention anything about actually trying to resolve the issue.

[AmericanConstellation]

This is what happens when you live on a sandbar.

[didibolter]

Maybe just maybe, their buildings would still be standing if THERE WAS A FOUNDATION!! Just maybe!

[alexeatonexploresamerica]

Where is 24 million dollars going to come from

[larrysherk]

Being from much farther north, I am mystified why all these houses got built so close to the sea, especially in hurricane alley. I suppose that with Florida's lack of high ground, the whole state will be under water before we know it. How do insurance companies get sucked into this nonsense ?

[jvalentine]

Most of those homes are a write-off and there is no point fixing some of them if no sea wall is installed first to act as a fill holder and barrier to further erosion which might not even be feasible because it all depends on where any strong rock substrata is to anchor the sea wall . Although some private sea walls have been fairly successful this time which is a good sign .
If it's just really deep sand then just placing rocks as a sea wall will eventually fail again one day as the sand erodes under the wall with other big storms and the soluble base rocks like limestone further eroding . Insurance should build the owners a house some place else and turn the beach front into a parkland strip . I grew up at a famous beach and when I go back now I am shocked by how much of the beach is gone, it's now about a 1/4 of the depth it once was 60 years ago . Many of these coastlines lack any radial break walls that reduce tidal flows and storm surge along the beach front and that greatly reduces erosion, people resist them because they don't look nice .

[easyb]

No, you did not do too well with this hurricane good grief they are lying

[raygottschall]

We are seeing the results of our 150 year binge on fossil fuel. Climate change is irreversible and will continue to worsen throughout the world. Denial will not halt the inevitable. Only Love will take us home. ❤