Hurricane Ian headed toward the West Coast of Florida

I looked up some views of some of the Florida cities on Google Maps, and was amazed at the number of houses built right on the shorelines, just a few feet above current sea levels. If the storm surge from his hurricane is as high as predicted, there will be thousands of homes flooded and destroyed. The damage and losses may be in the billions of dollars.
 

Don M. said:
If the storm surge from his hurricane is as high as predicted, there will be thousands of homes flooded and destroyed.
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That is certainly possible. However it will be far fewer than if the storm hit further north closer to Tampa Bay. I hope it is minimal, but that may be wishful thinking.
Bonnie said:
Don't know if it's been mentioned, but there is a huge dry air mass that is approaching Hurricane Ian from the west today.
It could affect its momentum, and help in pushing the storm through quicker.
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I think you are right, and it could reduce the impacts, we will know soon...
 
From the Guardian...

One of the mantras of major hurricanes is that you can shelter from the wind – which is up to 155mph in the case of Hurricane Ian – but you can’t hide from the water. Officials fear the storm surge of up to 18ft, predicted by the National Hurricane Center in Florida, will be deadly.
Deanne Criswell, administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) has just been on CNN to explain the risk:
This is going to be a catastrophic impact, and not just where we’re going to see the storm make landfall.

We’re really concerned about all of the inland flooding because it’s bringing with it a lot of rain and it’s going to move slowly, which means people in the path are going to experience the impacts for a long period of time.

My biggest concerns is the water, the storm surge and flooding. Water is one of the leading causes of death, direct fatalities, in these storms.

We know that a lot of people have evacuated but we also know there’s people that haven’t.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...084e56bac5755f#block-63344d028f084e56bac5755f
 
..again from the Guardian... reporter in Miami...

Good morning, it’s Richard Luscombe in Miami, Florida, welcoming you to our live blog covering the imminent landfall of Hurricane Ian, one of the most powerful storms ever to strike the US mainland.

Millions of Florida residents are in the path of the deadly monster storm, and officials are warning of a looming catastrophe after Ian strengthened overnight to just shy of maximum category 5 status, pushing out winds of 155mph at its center.

The hurricane claimed several lives as it tore through Cuba, wrecking western communities and knocking out power to the entire island.

Now Ian has its sights on an afternoon landfall on the south-west coast of Florida, where a predicted storm surge of up to 18ft is liable to cause substantial flooding.
 
I think some of it is [over-hyped] ? It seems too me that in the case of several of the most recent storms I have heard ' a storm like we haven't seen in our lifetime' Storm surge of near twenty feet expected , usually turns out to be 12-18" Don't take me wrong, I want the lesser effects, but knock off the hype .

I don't know .... maybe I'm just all wrong ? Regardless , best wishes to all in the area effected ....... Stay safe !!
 
I discovered I can get a Florida news station (live) via my Roku app. The forecast keeps changing..including the storm surge numbers that have risen from the highest 8 ft (a couple of days ago) to 18 ft. But now it seems things in Tampa, where my HS is, will not be as bad as was forecast yesterday. Just got a text and he said his fiancee, a flight attendant, did make it home. She must have been on one of the last flights since they were all canceled as of late yesterday afternoon.

Spoke briefly with my BFF, who's closer to Naples, about 45 minutes ago. She feels safe inside but is worried about her fairly new car. Part of the roof of her condo building is coming down a few doors from her apartment. She said the wind is blowing lots of things around. She is on the second floor so hopefully her apartment won't be affected by storm surge. Other owners are "snowbirds" so many of them had already gone back to their primary residences. I will be keeping up with both of them as much as possible throughout all of this.
 
People in residences along Florida's west Gulf Coast have had over decades the certainty of a hurricane eventually flooding and likely totally destroying their homes. The worst scenrio has been a direct hit on Tampa/St. Petersburg. Once did a field service trip there staying at a beach hotel. There is no excuse for not knowing so just like homes built on the banks of the Mississippi, California homes built in highly flammable chaparral or atop Earthquake faults, or a list of other known dangerous natural phenomenon like lava flows on the big island of Hawaii. Having homes along ocean shores is of highest real estate demands and one may be lucky for decades. It is an will always be a gamble.

For those with Google Earth on their pc's, take a look at the Florida shoreline there and how wherever the hurricane directly hits will be destroyed. In our society given the power of real estate and financial corporations, it is the rest of us that will end up paying the bill instead of their own insurance those gambling so ought be paying for. You see otherwise, the corps would need to raise prices of such real estate they are selling to the rest of us to cover insurance but then that would affect their bottom line.
 
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