We need Mother Nature….but she will be fine without us.

Exactly.

It’s ok, no one down here believes in climate change… Look how well it’s working out for us! 🙄🙄🙄

You took the words out of my mouth; and then people wonder why insurance companies are exiting the state. This is a prime example of cognitive dissonance.

​@@nickp4961mother nature doesn't exist

Have you ever heard of the Everglades?

You are absolutely correct and Mike everything south of Okeechobee used to be the Everglades we only have a smidgen of what is left thanks to the greedy developers and corrupt politicians. That fraction of what’s left can’t absorb the higher than normal rainfall.

@@QbnAmCan Also to blame is human overpopulation. It took thousands of years for the population to reach 2 billion. In less than 100, we have added 6 billion more. More and more people only leads to more and more development.

@@Hayyywardyou’re very stupid please stop talking

🙄 the Everglades are still the Everglades. There’s no shortage of gators and crocs and boa constrictors. Miami dade is far from the everglades, that’s like comparing Manhattan to what it used to be a Dutch island.

Where's the governor? If this were a so called liberal state, everyone would be blaming the governor/ mayor, especially conservatives/republicans.

And what once was will return to what it use to be. Human nature

@@countvan7406 Maybe its Joe Biden, you're right!

@@danpiazza3803 don't be so simple minded

@@countvan7406 you might be interested in the book "Swamp. The Everglades, Florida and the politics of paradise". It talks about how politicians, the US army corps of engineers, real estate Moguls, and the sugar industry destroyed everything south of lake Okeechobee.

Yup and it's only gonna get worst this is just the beginning

Man made climate change is the problem

B I N G O

Yep, my city did a 2 year project to add drainage because it would flood from regular rain. Infrastructure is the answer.

@@nwatson2773 yes but those infrastructure systems has to be checked and improved. In my city there are plants are growing from the drain holes. The system would be good, it's a cast iron lid/frame on the top and a kind of bucket underneath. It's just lifting up the lid and take the bucket out, clean everything and it's good to go

DeSantis has ordered millions of Mickey Mouse arm floaties , problem solved 😅

All your money went to ukraine

​@@terryhunter2526 keep drinking that kool aid 😂

@@terryhunter2526 Russians cry harder.

And as we all know, the federal govt is always very helpful 😅

The leaders in Florida are hoping they'll be long gone with their pockets stuffed with cash by then.

Amen. Cant keep saying "once in a century event" when it happens every few years. And soon even more frequently.

LOL It's not getting worse, its more people moving to a place that they shouldn't!! Soon you'll here radiation is getting worse when on the moon. Natural disasters are ALWAYS HAPPENING. LEARN HISTORY! Too many idiots like you listen to the overblown propaganda and then wonder why INFLATION is getting WORSE.

It doesn't take long for a heavy rain band training over a single area to lead to inches of rain. Dumb luck, really. There is a component of climate change too I'd imagine. Higher global temps mean higher atmospheric moisture levels, and yes, carbon based global warming is a scientific fact, you bumbling right wingers (I say this as someone who doesn't plan to vote democrat any time soon, lol)

The MAGA idiots will believe whatever they are told and that is a fact.

Common sense….greed has destroyed it.

It's Houston all over again. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

Ahh funny is a lake is filling up and is growing, where should the water rather go? It's has very little to do with it. No soil can soak up inches of rain in short time. Gutters, run off things only canel the water faster

Where is the water supposed to run off to? The areas flooded are 3 feet max above sea level!

@@jannibal9273the water is supposed to stay there. It’s a swamp Florida isn’t even supposed to be above water in 70 years

Exactly... these people asked for this.. no sympathy.. but now watch how they all want a government bailout

They voted for this.

They voted for it and cheered the governor and legislature on because they know they can always send the rest of us the disaster bill and will get paid.

The governor doing a solid for his rich developer donors no doubt.

Oh, the resident Karen. Move to LA. I hear it’s nice

Trump will fix it

Yep - rampant mold and many who will not be able to afford remediation. That widespread of damage presents a problem not only for the structural integrity of some homes, but in an overwhelming need for contractors. It will take months for people to get their homes repaired, and in the meantime they have nowhere to go, and it is summer in South Florida. All that water will not only create mold problems but attract insects. You already have a situation were there is a shortage of affordable rentals - so renters be stuck where they are, and homeowners are already having trouble paying the insurance premiums. It is likely those without mortgages in many cases have opted to go without flood insurance, not because they don't realize its importance, but because when they to choose between food and paying for utilites vs. paying insurance premiums, you already know insurance becomes a secondary concern until something happens. I miss my friends, but I am grateful that I left South Florida. It is the playground for the rich only now, and soon there will be nobody to make their $15 lattes, if the service workers have to commute from 2 hours inland, due to the unaffordability of the area.

Tons of mosquitoes soon. Some are starting to carry diseases like dengue fever. Yuck

I’ve lived in a formerly flooded house that flooded again in hurricane Ian. I will say that we had a lot of trouble breathing in there before we replaced a ton of stuff like the air conditioning, bathrooms replaced, etc. I could breathe perfectly fine after the entire house was remediated, gutted out and rebuilt the right way after Ian! We moved though, never doing that again! And if it does happen again I’m gone, I’m completely done. I’ll live with family up north. I can’t do that again. That was so traumatizing. All of this is truly something you just cannot grasp until you go through it yourself.

I feel the worst for those who rent. Landlords do NOT remediate mold after a flood EVER and if they do, it shocks everyone. I’ve lived it first hand. My neighbors next door rent and didn’t get remediated and are now sick (their house did flood and was not remediated previously as well!). I’ve been trying to help them as much as possible & they’re working on buying their own home elsewhere. It’s so sad to see them stuck. 😞

It’s dangerous here yankee don’t come here

Florida... Death's waiting room.

Stay home it’s bad here

@@Darrinbewitched😂

The governor can't stop the rain.

@@CaliSteve169 That is not his job. But, he can show up to assist the local government with the relief efforts. He also can answer to the constituents that he was elected to serve and explain why he vetoed the drainage and stormwater infrastructure project that will help to mitigate this in the future. That is his job.

Plus Hispanic immigrants want to stay living where there is a big Hispanic population. You don't find that up north unless you move to an urban hell hole in the northeast. And in the rural parts, let's just say people want to live where the majority doesn't hate them simply for existing. Not many places for low income Hispanic immigrants to go where they can feel somewhat at home.

I can believe that statement! Florida had a sinister tax model going but as growth continued it could not support the added people here. With more people you need more cops, more firefighters, more water treatment plants, more roads, more schools and on and on and on. The taxes gotta go up because someone needs to pay for the infrastructure buildout. Now, for some odd reason DeSuckass has squirreled away $17 billion dollars for WHAT????!!!! And the residents don't seem to care. It's a house of cards economy! WATCH!!

florida problems are pretty tame compared to a lot of other states. a little water never hurt florida, it's the wind combined with water is what gets us.

I agree, and grew weary of people's judgements during the peak of the pandemic. I was born in South Florida and know the Hallandale area very well - I used to live just north of it in the Young Circle area. When I left in 2005, rents were going up, but there still were affordable studios. I know someone still iving in the same complex I used to rent within at one time, and the rents are going up $100 a year. The waiting list is years long for subsidized senior housing, and despite the increases in her complex, others are increasing their rents even more.. She has been in the area most of her life and all of her friends are there, as well as her job. I well understand the point you are making.

I did it as a single mom with a toddler- if you have the will....there's a way!!!!!!

Imagine a 50 foot tsunami along the Atlantic coast... it would cause a real estate crisis unlike anything ever imagined... the number of people who would flee these areas before it hit and then need to find housing. All the insurance companies would be instantly bankrupt. The government would print trillions of dollars to bail people out. It could literally be the collapse of civilization as we know it, at least for those who don't own property on higher ground, say 100 feet or higher above sea level. There's no way they could find places to house everyone without authoritarian measures forcing homeowners to take in people.

Imagine wishing death on a population of people because you’re unhinged with your fake politics where both parties are funded by the same group of wealthy donors and corporations.

Thanks for offering no solutions and telling everyone what we already know… I’m so happy the country is filled with folks just like you 🙄

It has been rising for decades. And the rate of increase has been accelerating rapidly the last decade. So buildings built for two decades ago, and approved according to the then given sea level are now in the vulnerable zone. People doesnt seem to realize things are moving at speed in florida, they seem to think the sea level is static. here is a very clear reason why insurance companies are fleeig the state.

@@johndoe1909well their voters don’t belive in global warming they’ll just blame it on Biden

Insert Obama joke here

What?? Trump made all the rain.

😂

Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston

*blamed

Subdivisions are the real problem

Well I grewup in Florida in the 80s and 90s and this happened ALL THE TIME, JUST HOW BIG IS THAT POLE THATS SHIFTING?🤨🧐🤓

Exactly people don't realize that's it's happening around the world too

It is the brown trout and bloody rats you have to worry about with all the sewer manholes boiling over.

Hey, man!!!!😯I remember back in 2010 working for Navarro Group at an Airport ✈️ near a stadium 🏟️. Meeting the former BSO Sheriff👮Nick Navarro was an honor, then years later we had a major hurricane and the whole Airport was flooded. We stayed overnight with the Cops/First Responders at the maintenance building🏢 and then patrolled 🚓 the Area after the Storm.

You blame others? To the next vote you should be a senator as well that everyone can blame on you. It's ridiculous, instead of doing something yourself or help environment organizations who are already working on it

@@imtheeastgermanguy5431yeah it’s their fault for counting to build on land they shouldn’t and know that’ll be flooded

@@Naomi-xu4hq you should hope that you never will be in this situation

What did you do with your car??

Perhaps building houses on stilts.

😂

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot..now do you find that cute?..or perhaps you might explain your amusement to us readers

Or build houses on stilts

Lake placid

The oceans are rising

Trump will fix it

By the time it sinks, we would not be alive by then

@@danhove Hardly lack of drainage ponds and antiquated sewer systems for the increased population.

What normally happens when you put a lot of weight on soft soil? It sinks

Oh goodness, you can say this about every location in the US - I hope you feel so bold when your home suffers because it will. Offer grace and perhaps the same will be given to you.

The Netherlands used to be…the ocean, and this doesn’t happen. It is just bad planning.

@@Zelielz1 many of the cities in South Florida are already planning on renovating the infrastructure to model the Netherlands, I know for a fact Pompano Beach is putting a lot of money into it.

@@Zelielz1 True to a point. However, South Florida is tropical, and we get a lot of rain during our monsoon season. This is where the Netherlands differ. Thye don't get anywhere as much rain as South Florida.

I was really hoping one of you would identify that

I'm ready, moved up to Ocala 2 years after IAN Took everything and I mean everything

@@mikejungferman4744 Try and stay out of Okaloosa County, the law enforcement shoots people for fun.

@@johnpaulwebb3440you Yankees should have stayed home

@@Darrinbewitched You Yankees? I was gigging flounder before you were potty trained, Punk!

@@Darrinbewitched How high is the water, Forrest.

You just move. It’s not that difficult our ancestors have been doing it for thousands of years.

@@Naomi-xu4hq sounds simple. I just moved. 10,000 cost to move a 3 bed room apartment. That all sounds easy. Add another couple thousands of dollars for miscellaneous things and most Americans can’t afford to move. Specially if they don’t have a job waiting for them BTW I am not affected by this. I just feel for those who are

Yes i remember hearing about it, but everyone kept denying until there is no turning back. Now seems that there is no turning back and all the warnings were basically death ears. So sad people have to suffer because the government on that state ignores Science at all cost. Well is going to cost a lot now. My aunt left in time. Even she knew things were going to get worse. So this is definitely something that was warned over and over again.

The sea level doesn't even have to rise. All is has to do is to keep raining.

Yes. This is supported by facts such as immigration internally in the USA. This is a sewage issue for a small part of south Florida. This was common for any more than an average rain storm in my home town in Ontario, Canada.

DeSantis to rescue millions of Mickey Mouse arm floaties for everyone 😅

Yeah people are leaving blue states.

​@@CaliSteve169theyre leaving florida😅