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[quote=Anonymous]I'm sitting on my lanai on LBK right now! Looking out on the gulf.

LBK and siesta and Anna Maria were very badly damaged. Anna Maria in a permanent way, because many of the buildings were not structurally sound. When you drive through the main drag, it is mostly a bunch of bombed out buildings that have fallen off their stilts.

LBK has some remaining original houses on the gulf that were badly damaged by Milton. But most buildings on LBK are structurally sound.  If they had first stories on the gulf, those likely had breaches. But they have all been gutted, stuff thrown away, and look pretty normal from the outside at this point.  A lot of the pools on the beachfront condos have been destroyed, but are low priority to fix. The beach itself was totally changed -- sand right up to GMD and past.  They have mostly cleared the sand away at this point, but there is still traces of sand everywhere. Like our car is constantly coated in sand, because it's just in the air now.  The beach itself is beautiful, as always. So many of the rentals are damaged, so the beach right now is dead. But if you found an unharmed building, there's no reason not to come. Most of the restaurants on the circle have opened again, but there's no shopping yet.

Siesta - I have no idea. My friends there have all had to move off island. Siesta has more old houses, that were totally flooded.

Mainland sarasota is totally normal and unimpacted by the hurricanes. Honestly, mainland was barely impacted even when they happened. It was just the keys. We also have an old ranch house on the mainland 2 blocks in from the shore, but protected by siesta key. It lost some fencing, but was otherwise fine.

As to moving here permanently and dealing with the risks.... I don't know.  Buy a new house that's up to code and be a little bit further in the mainland.  You don't have to go to Lakewood Ranch, but even something like a to-code house in Palmer Ranch would be safe.  I would not buy a pre 2008 (or whatever the code year is) house at this point. I think insurance and resale will be hard in 20 years when you go to sell.  Condos downtown SRQ would be a good investment - they're all to code with hurricane windows and SRQ downtown is lit. [/quote]

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