ESCAPING PARADISE: Fort Myers Beach residents are relocating due to the continuous flooding

After multiple flooded cars, and hundreds of thousands in damages, some Estero Island neighbors say they're giving up on island living.

[KungPowEnterFist]

The wildlife is going to be so happy to see them go.

[MikeC-rydk]

These are barrier islands. They need to be covered with mangroves not buildings. we need the mangroves to support the environment. Remove the building and sea walls.

[JimBoIndy]

Dudes van will be on a lot for sale by the end of the week! 😅

[jaybird]

Florida sucks will never understand why so many people move here high insurance, overcrowding, traffic, hurricanes and continuous hot weather four years to retirement and getting the hell out

[rw]

He just told the world his house floods two times a year so who in there right mind would buy a house that will flood twice a year 😂😂😂

[gabyfields]

It's obviously not "paradise", if you have to flee from it!

[dbrewu]

The endless paving & building over Florida's precious Wetlands is going to come back to seriously bite the Cities that are constantly approving it .

[lynfl]

Why didn't this man leave the island with his vehicle before the island flooded?

[darrtrubb]

I lived in Tampa Bay for 27 years and fled Florida this past June. Hurricanes were one of the top reasons why I no longer wanted to live in Florida. Category 4 & 5 hurricanes were unheard of when I first moved there in 1997. Furthermore, hurricanes back then were largely an East coast phenomenon (South Florida). I didn’t sign up to be in the crosshairs of yearly hurricanes of Category 4 and 5 strengths. Leaving Florida was the best decision of my life.

[danv]

Too bad they didn’t know the hurricane was coming. They could have moved their vehicles.

[Indomitablespirit]

Build closer to the Ocean, then blame your local governments!

[buckbenelli]

My paradise doesn’t include dengue fever, Zika, fire ants, cockroaches, alligators or buildings painted pastel colors.

[barberdoug]

Paradise? Continually losing everything is more like Hell. You can have it. I'll just vacation and live in my secure northern home

[guymerritt]

It's a weird world when some people can afford to lose car after car (or house after house) and kinda go, "Oh well - we'll just buy another one" or "We'll just rebuild AGAIN". Wealth is distributed so bizarrely. And why didn't this dude get his car out of the area when he knew it would likely flood? We have some people without almost limitless resources and more and more people living in cars. I watched a couple of money market channels and everybody in this country is gonna see rises in insurance costs as a consequence of these people insisting to live in these flood prone zones.

[Richappen]

Welcome the new normal for low lying coastal areas. Pretty soon those properties will be uninsureable. Not to worry though; our lawmakers in Tallahassee will take some time out from banning books to come up with some fine solutions.

[stillastillsfan]

Wouldn’t move to Florida if my life depended on it.

[JeffreyLiddell-ei]

I was living in Port Charlotte about an hour north of Ft. Myers when hurricane Ian hit two years ago, and it was just awful. We didn't flood, but I was one and done. Back in Texas and don't miss FL one bit. Good luck to those folks .

[Hanson]

Not trading my snow blower for this shit show

[taramadden]

Georgia, South and north carolina plus Tenn! Sounds like more than just Fl.

[petegregory]

"Chevy Traverse, junk."
Was when it hit the lot of the transport right off assembly line.