Reply to Are We Talking about Hurricane Ian?

Forum Index » Environment, Weather, and Green Living

Reply to "Are We Talking about Hurricane Ian?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So, so sad. My parents are Sanibel snowbirds and always drive down from NY the second weekend in October. (That's obviously not happening this year.) It is our family's happy place.

My parents knew people who did not evacuate and those people are going to have to be evacuated by boat or air because that causeway is the only way onto the island by land.

It's very early in assessing damage, but I've seen some comments from people saying it may be a total loss. Too many sections damaged, and what is still intact probably can't be trusted. It's going to be ferries for several months at least.[/quote]

Why should the bridge and road be rebuilt for vacation homes? It looks like the island is cut in a few places and they lost a lot of sand/beach. I wonder are the sewer and fresh water systems still intact?  They will have to totally rebuild the island’s beach. It will cost millions and there is no guarantee another storm will not take every think out in a year or two.  I really hope the federal government does not paid for the rebuild of the island. [/quote]
6700 people live there. It’s not all vacation homes.[/quote]

How many millions in tax dollars are you willing to spend to rebuild it? In 2004 the new bridge was built for 137 million(lasted what 8 years?), beach replenishment 6-10 million, rebuilt the road 3-5 million so 6700 people can live in multiple million dollar homes on a sand bar? No they have to pay for that themselves.[/quote]
Never having been to Florida or read that much about the state, I don’t actually know much about Sanibel Island; I had the vague idea it was for very wealthy people. Whether or not these are second (or third or fourth) homes, I don’t feel comfortable bailing out the kind people who can afford to buy a tiny little condo for 800K or a nice mansion for $4M, especially not when it’s not unlikely to need to be bailed out again what with the way global warming is super powering hurricanes. Let’s not pretend that Sanibel Island is some historic working class neighborhood that needs help. It isn’t. https://www.redfin.com/city/16325/FL/Sanibel/filter/viewport=26.45208:26.43071:-82.02361:-82.05524[/quote]
why do you assume Sanibel's existence only benefits wealthy people? You don't think there are (non-rich) people who work in the tourism industry that generates ...oh, $4 billion per year on the island? The hotel clerks? The fishing boat operators? The small business owners? The restaurant servers? Those who work for the wildlife refuges that make up half the island? The librarians? Sanibel is not some walled off (metaphorical) island. There are many, many people whose livelihood revolves around Sanibel Island.

Worms for brains, I swear. [/quote]

The last time I checked there were plenty of mainland businesses begging for workers. [/quote]

You didn’t check and you don’t know that. [/quote]

Yes, I do know and I did check. Are you telling me the hotel workers on Sanibel can’t work anywhere else in Florida but Sanibel? There are currently 1.5 million open hospitality jobs in the US. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics