River crest flow is a hidden factor in these things too. I know here the flooding can be 24 hours after rain stops because the Cape Fear river flows down through the city and all the creeks and tributaries fill up north and slowly crest southward on its way to the Atlantic. Like a wave of depth.
These are the ones I ordered from Amazon https://a.co/d/1zPQMfh I have not had to use them, we live on the marsh a cut off the river is about 1200 feet away never had water come onto the property and Ian had a 7-8 ft rise here locally. If it was 10-11 it might get close to the house but like you said it may be just enough.
TY Both piers in Daytona area have lost parts of the ends over the years as well. We lost a ton of beach on my end of town (Ponce Inlet). Just north in Wilbur it was worse lost probably 15-20 houses and 50-100 ft of 20 ft tall dunes. No real external renourishment here. Interesting enough in the almost two years since Ian/Nicole there has been about 5-6 feet of rebuild up of sand in front of the sea wall at our local beach park.
Thank you, pa. Those look good. We do have one room with a sliding glass door that is about a foot lower than the rest of the house, so that would be good for that space. At least then the damage would be all or nothing.
Not sure but they might be stackable, one on top of another. Thing I like is they just roll up and take little space to store. Seems like they can be filled in short order. I always wonder what people do with the sand bags after they are used.
"ignoring our comprehensive land plans, skimping on infrastructure, and the price we've paid kissing developers' asses." @SotaGator as someone who makes a living doing zoning and engineering design for development with several large projects in Sarasota county built years ago, I would be curious to know where the comprehensive plans have been ignored. I have literally spent years working on changes to the comp plan for projects and know that in 30+ years I have never once had a zoning get approved that was inconsistent with the comprehensive plan. No stormwater system is designed to handle 100 year storm events coupled with surge without roads flooding and many of the old parts of Sarasota were built a long time ago before the stormwater requirements were set. Roads are also designed to flood during extreme events to help provide temp storage people rant about gubmnt kissing developers ass and those same people have no understanding or respect for the rights of the property owners. just say no isn't a legal option, it is a taking. There are volumes and volumes of rules that must be adhered to in order to get permits and it takes a minimum of a year these days to permit anything even if it has zoning. We are on year 7 of trying to get a project through permitting right now for one of the largest property owners in SW Fl and I don't see any lipstick on my ass or theirs anywhere. In fact, all I can see is scar tissue at this point. They have won two lawsuits already where the county denied the owner his rights and audubon sued them to stop the project. And neither judge was wearing lipstick, but it did delay the project by years and cost a ton of $$. Those costs, along with the carry costs for the length of the delays, will end up being passed onto the home owner at the end of the day Permit list for one current project less than 20 acres 1. Zoning change - 22 months, 7 submittals, 4 public hearings, appx $300k in professional fees 2. SFWMD Environmental Resource Permit, on third submittal, 11 months in. fighting with them because they are insisting we do compensating floodplain management because we are placing fill in the floodplain...it is tidal, the floodplain is the Gulf of Mexico. thre eprojects around it, two recent, didn't have to do compensating floodplain but we have anew reviewer and we will be meetign with district staff and our legal rep for them to explain to us why we should have to do it. stupid questions, wastes of time, from inexperienced reviewers 3, SFWMD water use permit for irrigation 4. SFWMD permit for dewatering 5. FDOT permit for access for the turn lane and connection to state road - on 4th submittal with FDOT, 12 months in 6. FDOT permit for drainage for the turn lane 7. FDOT permit to connect to the watermain and forcemain (sewer) to pipes in the Right-of-way (ROW)..don't get me started about FDOT anality, blood pressure can't take it. one turn lane and driveway connection, three separate FDOT permits 8. County permit for development order for onsite infrastructure 9. County permit for connection to local road to meet requirement for two access points 10 County approval for eagle management plan for a tree that had half a eagle nest in it three years ago before it blew away. Second nest for this breeding pair (guess they wanted one closer to the beach to go along with their golf course home not too far away). Had to set aside 2+ acres around the tree even though there is no nest, the mating pair in the area has a nest elsewhere that they fledged out of since they paired up. that took nearly 15 months. one more year and we go through another process to have it officially declared abandoned and then we can do another rezone and another SFWMD and county permit process to try and use that two acres. 11. FDEP permit for small dock and kayak launch into adjacent river - we had to go back and forth with them about whether manatees would be bothered by kayaks even thought there is a full marina for powerboats less than 1000' downstream 12. FDEP permit to construct a water distribution system 13. FDEP permit to construct the wastewater collection system 14. NPDES permit for sediment control during construction 15. Submerged land lease to be able to put in a small dock, 11 months in, still working on it, for a manmade canal 16. clearing permit 17. SFWMD permit for the turn lane..almost forgot we had to get separate ERP for the turn lane all before we can put up silt fence and start the project. all for 82 condo units and 10k SF of commercial and people wonder why housing costs so much if you know where the easy ass kissing button is, I will pay you big money to point it out to me. and I can't even take my friend fishing or out for beers anymore because he works for the county now and he has to avoid the impression that he is friends with the consultants representing the developers. the game is nothing like it was 30 years ago...at least not in SW Florida where I work. I also sit on a zoning board, have for 9 years, and have never once been offered an inducement, but routinely get blasted by the public for not listening to their nimby cries and get flack from developers for being too hard on them. Try and explain the rules used to make decisions to the general public and their eyes glass over so I fall back to just say no is not a legal option unless the taxpayers want to buy up all the undeveloped property and take it off the tax rolls off to check the mirror to see if I can find some of that lipstick..lol
Ok, if they are stackable, I’m spending my kids’ college funds on them. Sandbags are terribly not reusable, at least not the ones that Hillsborough County gives out. The material lasts for a bit, and then just degrades, leaving you with the equivalent of the old fast food paper where the bottom would quickly drop out due to the oils. Otherwise, I’d let the kids build replica WWII bunkers in the backyard that I would raid for every storm.
meanwhile desi and the gang are rewriting the sustainability goals to remove the goal of being 100% renewable by 2050 Florida repeals energy policies in face of new law (wcjb.com) The state is in the process of repealing its renewable energy goals. The Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services proposal said the goals are unnecessary after Governor Ron DeSantis signed a new climate bill last month. However, climate activists say the state is moving in the wrong direction with this new law. Utilities across Florida increased renewable energy sources, like solar, for a couple of years to meet the state’s renewable energy goal of 100% by 2050. But that goal will be gone next month. “We already weren’t going far enough and we decided to take a step back from what we’ve already been doing,” Sierra Club Florida’s policy director Luigi Gudarrama said. Florida’s new energy law makes several changes to state energy policies starting July 1. They include deleting the requirement for the Department of Ag to establish renewable energy goals, removing references to cut greenhouse gas emissions, banning offshore wind farms, and encouraging cost-effective and affordable energy. Gudarrama said people across the state will notice the change.
there are lots of versions of these out there to get more than a foot that will protect your doors, just need room to store them Amazon.com: WDJBPSH Reusable Temporary Flood Barriers, 60cm Tall Aluminum Weather Flood Shield for Home Garage Warehouse Doorway, Internal External Mount (Color : L x H, Size : 230x60cm/90.5x23.6in) : Tools & Home Improvement
G8trGr8t - I take your points but respectfully disagree. Massive rezones and use changes are happening all around these parts. What the public hates is: 1) developers crying they can't make money unless they get significant change approvals, or, over-promising the financial benefits to county revenues. The arrogance is staggering. Whatever happened to Caveat Emptor where the developer / buyer may have limits on use of their purchase? 2) municipalities approve new projects without accurately assessing impacts to existing neighborhoods for roads, infrastructure, topography, etc or providing any remediation. Or, they ignore planning recommendations and accept bogus studies. New residents just want their shiny new houses, and long-time residents are told to simply leave if we don't like it. I too have first-hand professional experience in this regard and can tell you the corruption is very real.
Yes, property gets rezoned. That is the process. The comp plan defines the allowable uses and the land development code defines the criteria required to meet the zoning requirements. Those are rights spelled out that the property owner has. You cannot just say no without it being a taking and the public forced to buy the property. ANd I can promise you that no application gets approved with everything that is asked for. The first answer is always no and then revisons/adjustments are made to meet all the criteria set by the LDC (land development code) If you have evidence of corruption on any scale, please send it to me and I will assure it will get to the prosecutors office or please send it to the prosecutor office or local press yourself. Local press always looks for anything juicy to feed the nimbys. Bogus studies...smdh Do you think that professionals who spend years in college and then more years getting experience and then sit for testing and gain professional licenses that are required for their livelihood are going to sign and seal "bogus studies" and put their licenses and livelihood at risk? I have one license, I can get another client, but I can't get another license, and I have no interest in trying to defend "bogus" studies from me or any of my employees to the Professional Board at the state level or in a deposition or to our professional liability insurance carrier. Yes, impacts are assessed. New development is going to increase traffic. It is not the property owner's responsibility to build new roads unless they are generating massive volumes of traffic. On our big projects, we are building miles and miles of four lane roads and setting aside more land for it to be widened to 6 lanes in the future, land for schools, land for affordable housing, parks, and more. On smaller project with existing road networks, you pay transportation impact fees to help build or improve roads. In Sarasota, you have to take their countywide stormwater model and then insert your project and show that it does not impact the outfall peak stages, no small task. It gets done by an engineering firm with licensed professionals, gets reviewed by both county and state agencies with licensed professionals who love to find a reason to say no because it gets it off their desk. Remediation is provided. Remediation for wetland impacts, impact fees for roads, water, sewer, schools, parks, fire and more depending on the project. Here is the impact fee info for Sarasota. These fees get routinely increased ARTICLE II. - LIBRARY IMPACT FEE | Code of Ordinances | Sarasota County, FL | Municode Library here is a report for the state on impact fees. some counties need to use more impact fees and less property taxes but SW Florida in general isn't part of that group. Colier county charges nearly $30k per house in impact fees and that number is going to go up by almost $8k per house with the pending revisions. A quick review of this report shows many missing fees as Collier. New development should always pay impact fees and not ahve the burden of additional infrastructure passed onto existing residents in property taxes which is what many counties do FOF 1245 - Special Report Impact Fees 2-22 v2# (1000fof.org) we will have to agree to disagree, at least in the muni's I have worked, about corruption. 30+ years in the biz and never once have we or any of our clients' provided benefits to a regulatory body or individual other than maybe going to lunch back before the rules got so strict that a friend can't take a friend fishing. and if you want to prevent urban sprawl and decrease traffic, increase density so you get more rooftops in a smaller area to support businesses closer to the rooftops and you have enough density to justify public transport. counterintuitive but increased density promotes internal capture, public transport, and closer commercial to shorten trips
new projects can build barriers into the ground that they can raise to create a waterproof "wall" around the structures. lots of stuff in the pipeline with rising sea levels creating a market
the ones we did were pop up barriers set in recessed concrete channels. NO idewa what they look like now as that was 5 + years back
