After Hurricane Irma, FEMA estimates 25 percent of Florida Keys homes are gone

[machoneman]

1. I do....

feel sorry for all FL residents affected. The pic above shows how capricious the storm can be, as the blue sided home looks unscathed while the others are severely damaged. Still, the massive overbuilding since Andrew, even with better building codes, shows that the outer 'ring' of islands and beach homes were targets for more damage than the owners ever imagined.

I wonder how just badly places like Marco Island and other low-lying areas outside the Inter-Coastal waterway were affected. We'll soon see with more pics but by gosh many of these areas should NEVER have been allowed to develop at all.

http://www.slate.com/articles/business/metropolis/2017/09/irma_made_marco_island_a_symbol.html