Tropical Storm Ian Prediction as of 0200 EDT.

[FootballFan]

I hate to even ask this question - Where do all the totaled boats end up? Does a vendor salvage things like Drivetrains/Sat Antennas, etc?

When I was at the boatyard last week the manager was talking about a guy he knew that had got a salvage contract. No idea who issued him the contract (probably individual marinas).

He was bringing in cranes and trucks and would be transporting damaged boats to an 80 acre field he had leased. I got the impression he was starting as soon as he could removing boats. Sounded like any insurance settlements would occur after the boat was removed.

Marinas could not even think about rebuilding until all the wreckage is gone.

Not really an answer to your question, but maybe fills in a piece of the puzzle.

 

[Blueone]

Thanks Dave,

Fortunately, Reward is in her "Hurricane Hole" at the Chattanooga Yacht Club. I don't think she will get back to FL for at least 3 more years...

The twin blue hulled boat is the Westin's beach transport, and she is upside down in our (empty) slip!!

My wife talked to the Westin….. they aren’t taking reservations until January

how did the condos and the hotel make out in general ?

 

[copb8tx]

Good friend has a condo at marina view around the corner from the westin next to Rum Runners. He said his condo is fairly intact but that it's now surrounded by a war-zone.

 

[Steve S]

And the Sanibel Causeway has been reopened... https://fb.watch/g5zw9WuqWQ/

 

[FootballFan]

And the Sanibel Causeway has been reopened... https://fb.watch/g5zw9WuqWQ/

I am shocked! In a good way. When I saw video of the portions washed out I thought to myself how many government organizations are going to be required to sign off on how many different studies.

Amazing what can be accomplished with a "can do" governor pushing.

 

[Blueone]

Good friend has a condo at marina view around the corner from the westin next to Rum Runners. He said his condo is fairly intact but that it's now surrounded by a war-zone.

They are one lock in....wouldn't have thought a lot of water damage..... I imagine rumrunners took a hit though

 

[Joint Custody]

I hate to even ask this question - Where do all the totaled boats end up? Does a vendor salvage things like Drivetrains/Sat Antennas, etc?

I think we would all like to know this. I am sure there will be lots of boats " totaled" but I would imagine lots of the parts and hardware are still good. It would be a shame if they just crush them all.
I wonder if you can even get insurance on a rebuilt salvage title boat.

 

[Blueone]

Temporary bridge to sanibel in operation for trucks…. How they pulled that off so quick is remarkable.

 

[swaterhouse]

Temporary bridge to sanibel in operation for trucks…. How they pulled that off so quick is remarkable.

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It is amazing. Residents will get access in 10 or so days they say.

 

[highslice]

Temporary bridge to sanibel in operation for trucks…. How they pulled that off so quick is remarkable.

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Looks like a couple of trucks are ready to go. We were there the year after Charlie hit and it was sad to see how much the landscape changed. From the pictures and videos I have seen, that is not even comparable to what Ian did to the island.

 

[Maybe A Dancer]

Charlie was a very small, tight and FAST moving storm.

Emergency managers have compared this storm to an F4 Tornado.

The power went out and froze the famous downtown Punta Gorda clock at about 4:20 PM that Friday August 13, 2004

7:30 PM we were all out in the streets in awe of what had happened .

ASK ME - I LIVED IT

Ian was HUGE and SLOW MOVING

Many differences between the 2

BEST !

RWS

 

[Nater Potater]

ASK ME - I LIVED IT

I'm happy you did! Stuck in the Mountain West, we don't ever see anything like that. I can't imagine...

 

[carterchapman]

My wife talked to the Westin….. they aren’t taking reservations until January

how did the condos and the hotel make out in general ?

We go down on the 23rd to check our condo at the North Star Yacht Club. Last week management said they would check all the condos and notify owners of any damage, so far for us, “no news is good news“.

We do have a car in the first floor level garage which got some water in it, but they haven’t said anything about cars being totaled, so we’re hoping the water only got about 2 inches deep.

 

[Timeflys]

A photo from the Port Charlotte area….no time to block the boats or a shortage of cradles or just not bothering due to damage…all in all a sad sight.

 

[FootballFan]

A photo from the Port Charlotte area….no time to block the boats or a shortage of cradles or just not bothering due to damage…all in all a sad sight.View attachment 135264

My guess is those boats were blocked and sitting on stands, otherwise they could not have gotten the Travel Lift away from the boat.

Not every haul out yard in this area of Florida does tie downs. If you are considering a haul out due to expected significant high water, that is a question you need to ask.

I have two haul out yards available to me (with prior scheduling). One does tie down, the other does not.

This is the result of boats which were hauled and are not anchored.

When I hauled for a storm a few years ago it was at a yard that does tie downs. After the boat was on blocks and stands, they did an additional step. Anchors were placed in the ground around the boat. 6 inch wide ratchet straps (I believe 5 or 6 of them) were then run over the boat and attached to anchors on each side.

Tie downs will protect for a while, but at some point, even tie downs would not prevent damage.

 

[mrsrobinson]

Regarding the bridge repair, if it was my area there would have been 20 city workers on it: 16 leaning on their shovels, 2 on their phones, one holding a Stop/Slow sign, and getting it wrong because they are on their phone too, and 1 working. I watch this almost weekly outside my house window.

 

[highslice]

Regarding the bridge repair, if it was my area there would have been 20 city workers on it: 16 leaning on their shovels, 2 on their phones, one holding a Stop/Slow sign, and getting it wrong because they are on their phone too, and 1 working. I watch this almost weekly outside my house window.

Either Florida had a couple thousand workers working on the causeway or it doesn't work that way in Florida. In St. Louis City the city workers just sit around and watch contractors do the work. Otherwise, nothing would get done. Our state DOT workers bust their asses.

 

[mrsrobinson]

They are repaving our streets, not sure what it is, it's not asphalt, some sort of black thin stuff. I watch one guy run the 2 trucks, one spreading the goo out with a rake thing, one driving the roller, and 20 others standing, every day.

 

[Creekwood]

They are repaving our streets, not sure what it is, it's not asphalt, some sort of black thin stuff. I watch one guy run the 2 trucks, one spreading the goo out with a rake thing, one driving the roller, and 20 others standing, every day.

Probably "chip seal" which is just a layer of tar spread on pea gravel or similar followed by another layer of pea gravel then rolled in. Very temporary but prevents rain washout.

 

[Blueone]

Regarding the bridge repair, if it was my area there would have been 20 city workers on it: 16 leaning on their shovels, 2 on their phones, one holding a Stop/Slow sign, and getting it wrong because they are on their phone too, and 1 working. I watch this almost weekly outside my house window.

I was told by a hydro line worker a while back that they are not manned for every day work but instead based on events like storms winter storms and ice. So during the summer when just doing maintenance expansion etc they have too many people but can’t lay them off…. So when you might only need 3 on a bucket truck they will send 6-7 out on the job….. the young ones are in the bucket the more senior on the ground talking on their phones