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Re: Would you buy a house in Florida? [cerveloguy]
I am a SW FL Florida (Ft Myers) resident. I have two houses, a large two story rental built in 2005 and my primary two story built in 2002. Both went through the eye of Irma ( the 2002 does not have hurricane shutters) The 2005 house did not have any damage other than a down tree in the yard. The 2002 house lost some facia and soffit on one side. It also suffered a little roof leakage. All and all I was expecting the worse for the 2002 house but it survived and even got power 27 hours after the eye was over the house.

Neither house is in a primary flood zone although we bugged out when I heard the mandatory evacuations for flood zone A 48 hours before impact. Flood zone B got notified to evacuate with only 30 hours before the storm hit. We are in flood zone C which was not evacuated but without storm shutters we left any way. There is a lot of flooding of streets in inland areas of SW FL right now.

It was pretty surreal to have my neighbor text me pic of my small amount of house damage while he was standing in the calm of the eye of the storm. I was elated to see only minimal damage.
Last edited by: Mightygator: Sep 12, 17 17:35

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