Hay Que “Rehacer La Ciudad”: El Noroeste De Florida Sufre Tercer Huracán En 13 Meses

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Sue Colson is from Canada. A year ago, she became a hurricane with the Helene family in her town of Cedar Key in northwest Florida. Sent on a golf course, watch the houses destroyed by the Tormenta and make sure you have to change.

“We experienced great torment in the 19th century and came back. You could bring this town back in a few days ago,” said Colson, a local spokesman. “Debemos pensar en reestructurarla, quizá sea distinta a cómo era, pero no podemos seguir reparando esto”.

Cedar Key is an island in the Gulf of Mexico, on the Florida peninsula from a single location. Their wooden houses in pastel tones should have an aspect of the post town in the other period. Another hour after the last Helene category 4 to 5, we imagine the day that came before.

On Calle Más Cercana al Puerto Pesquero, the bicycle lane and the Huracán rides destroyed numerous houses.

Here and there all the houses have been dismantled, with the finished tejado and the detached paredes. Together with other, more modern people, constructions about pilots, permanently intact.

In August 2023, Category 3 Hurricane Idalia caused widespread destruction in Cedar Key and the restoration of Big Bend-Lama, a marshland and forest region near the coast.

A year later, Debby fell into the wrong zone in Category 1. Y ahora ha sido Helene.

Gabe Doty, a Cedar Key city clerk, laments the misfortune he found on the island.

“I rompe el heart ver esto así. No hemos tenido suerte,” dice. “Our future is very gray. We lost a lot of business. Many houses are desperate, the market is desperate.

About 70 miles north, the coastal town of Steinhatchee also endured messages from Helene as she recovered from the Huracans Idalia and Debby.

Here you can see the tree trunks, the electrical posts and the tropical houses, but I was not afraid of the cycling, which could reach a height of 2.7 meters in some zones.

The water collection tank was used for several dozen Steinhatchee River attraction works and for ten years of exploration of the adjacent subways.

At a riverside bar, Jessie Sellers found herself accepting the consequences of the Helene passage. Su casa apenas tuvo daños, but it was negotiated, and que trabaja, está lleno de lodo.

“It devastates” is a woman of 39 years old. “It’s not so bad that this (the Huracans repeat) has reached the new normal. It’s like we’re putting ourselves to the test, but sobreviviremos.”

In Cedar Key, Sue Colson believes the zone’s areas need to coexist with nature and adapt to the Huracan giants.

“Dennemos que invertir dinero en cosas que al menos aguaten en agua. “Still, I can’t do that. It’s very sad, but there’s no time for what it’s like. Puede ser un renacimiento.”

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