Would you rebuild on Sanibel Island?

[Neodymium60]

Know people down there.  If up to you, once you got your insurance settlement would you rebuild?  Could you put what happened out of your mind and live there again?

Also hearing some horror stories about people who moved down to that Sanibel, Ft Myers, Marco Island area that didn’t pick up insurance due to the high cost.

[rjnwmill]

May be wrong, but I think DeSantis said some/much of the Florida r/e is designed to survive a CAT 5 storm?

As a purely casual observer, I don’t know the specifics about the damage in the geography you’ve highlighted. Was their infrastructure damaged or totally wiped clean?  Did any residential property survive in tact structurally?  In rebuilding can one harden structures sufficiently to tolerate another “storm of the century”?

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[Legend]

I think it can be true that structures can be designed to withstand a cat 5 storm, but at the same time you can’t protect land.  The coastal erosion and restructuring that comes with a storm of this kind tend to re-establish the real estate goal line.  When your cat 5 resistant vacation home is now stationed in the middle of a newly-dredged jetty you have few choices but to move.

A friend has beach real-estate near houston.  One of the storms in the past two decades brought his house from being 6 rows back from the beach to being 2 rows back.  It happens.

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[rjnwmill]

Thanks Legend. Anecdotal reports…

https://www.theblaze.com/news/despite-ians-devastation-floridas-architecture-displays-shocking-resilience

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