70gph at 10 knots with 12-92s is 40 bucks a mile and 24 hours previous they were still calling for it to Tampa bay.

He had a good dock in the lee of fort myers beach , he could have ran it up the coloosahatchee but you need to be above the locks to escape the surge and that would have been a 5 hour run.

Lacked the crew and fuel as everything closed down Tuesday morning.

Current quote we have for getting my buddies uninsured 40 foot sailboat craned off the mangroves is $250-300 a foot .

Uninsured because it was a named storm.

Hatteras was uninsured also as old big boats have become nearly impossible to insure down in Florida anymore.

When a storm with such a large circulation approaches at a shallow angle it only takes a few degrees of wobble to move the landfall 50 miles. I just go inland a few miles and hunker down. I75’s no bueno unless you bug out way early, it’s clogged up with all the people south of you who got the head fake the day before.

Two weeks after the hurricane. Sanibel Island bridges are passable. Great video

https://www.oann.com/video/oan-contr...land-causeway/

Just Unreal carnage. The size of some of those boats and where they landed. Dont fuk w Mother Nature. she Always wins.

Cape Haze, Florida Near my home, this is repairable

Cape Haze

Cape Haze, the rest of Storage Sheds at this marina in Cape Haze held up well (not pictured)

Member OldSchool aka Craig was hit pretty hard. They have a canal home in Cape Coral.
He reported in on FB that they have a lot of home damage including flooding and roof, lost 2 motorcycles and a truck due to flooding; and the Cigarette appears to be OK.
His Chevelle was moved inland and was fine.
I'm sure he'll chime in here at some point.

On the leaving part as many said north was not a option because of not knowing where it was going to land.

the friends I know that decided to leave went across to the east coast.

I explored that option (Tuesday)but could not find any hotels that had vacancy, and there were concerns about the roads getting there being way too crowded, based on experience from prior hurricanes. Too many people and not enough vacancies. Now if I had left Sunday and went to Alabama like some of my colleagues then I would not have been in harms way.

you know I can not remember what day they left but said I75 going across was not very busy.

they went to a hotel right by MIA airport. Not the best place around for sure.

I think this is the ~80 footer that was referred to up above.