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Originally Posted by Neilk
Our family has been going to Treasure Cay for the past 40+ years.
Here's what remains. Our condo was one of the units 1:30 into the video. It has been especially painful for my parents, especially for my stepfather who will be 85. He doesn't think we will ever be able to go back since reconstruction will take years and years. Our loss is nothing compared to what the locals lost. Devastating.
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I think it is fascinating the house that the drone flies over at the 4:00 mark looks to be perfectly in tact sans 1 missing metal roof piece.
Also there is a 2 story house at 0:40 and a 1 story house at 0:53 that both look to be in great shape.
If you look in the background in a lot of places there seem to be some more modern construction homes all in pretty good shape. Which is encouraging, that means we are indeed capable of building houses that can stand up to the Worst a Cat 5 can throw at them.
Yes, there is devastating destruction, I do see some silver lining, hopefully the houses that survived will teach a lesson, that area needs stricter building codes than Dade County (Miami) has, which is the gold standard here in Florida.
Thanks for posting that video, I need to scour around and see if there are any video's of Scotland Cay and see if my friends old house is still there. He rebuilt it after it was destroyed by a tornado in a Hurricane, I cannot recall right now which one. The rebuilt a bunker of a house. They self insured and had over 200K in the "insurance account" when the house was leveled.