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Remarkable Progress – Recovery Update,
Sanibel Bridge and Causeway Opens to Residents,
Pine Island Electricity Grid Complete

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Posted By: earlybird, 10/20/2022 10:15:30 AM

Did you know that during hurricanes asphalt roofing shingles act like flying blades? More on that momentarily…. Today Florida Governor Ron DeSantis was in the Punta Rassa area of South Fort Myers to celebrate a remarkable accomplishment. The Sanibel bridges and causeway are open to civilian traffic. {Direct Rumble Link} The massive, albeit temporary, repairs to the three spans and spoil islands have been completed three weeks after Hurricane Ian wiped them out. A genuinely remarkable feat of engineering and git’ r done roughneck effort. (snip) TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Today, Governor Ron DeSantis announced that emergency repairs to the Sanibel Causeway have been completed in 15 days, more than

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Red tape being cleared away? Makes a big difference...

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Reply 1 - Posted by: earlybird 10/20/2022 10:22:15 AM (No. 1309687)
Great photos and an excellent firsthand report on what it is like to go through a hurricane and great hints for those who might have to go through one. The part about the asphalt shingles is amazing as well. And not taking things we are used to for granted… We all do that.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: DVC 10/20/2022 10:51:36 AM (No. 1309722)
Good engineers working with good political leaders clearing the damned red tape away can accomplish amazing things. We haave gotten so used to everything being strangled by BS ecoterrorist red tape that we forget how Americans used to be the envy of the world....getting things accomplished in a big hurry. Now we are chained by ecocrazies, everything is either blocked entirely or takes ten times longer than it should. Bravo DeSantis, slayer of red tape.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Rich323 10/20/2022 10:57:28 AM (No. 1309726)
Sundance includes invaluable advice on how to protect property and vehicles that everyone should review. Lots of common sense but in an emergency you sometimes go brain dead and forget these simple but effective ideas. Thanks Dude appreciate the info!
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Enoch Powell 10/20/2022 11:33:52 AM (No. 1309770)
I am so proud of my (former) governor. The Big Dig in Massachusetts (thanks Tip!) took decades and cost billions, and still a woman was killed by falling debris several years ago. The Callahan and Sumner tunnels were built in the thirties for a few million in a couple of years...
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Rather Read 10/20/2022 11:43:16 AM (No. 1309783)
And it costs millions to install ONE toilet in San Francisco
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Reply 6 - Posted by: DVC 10/20/2022 12:47:05 PM (No. 1309854)
Sundance's advice on garage doors sounds good. Against a flat surface wirh nothing deflecting the wind, a perpendicular wind against a vertical object like a house wall or garagw door can apply a force of about 51 ponds on each square foot. A double car garage door is about 17 ft wide and 8 ft tall, so 136 sq ft. With51 lb of wind force on each square foot, thats almost 7,000 pounds load on the door. The inside car bracing the door and outside car(s) deflecting the wind both strengthen the door, and reduce the wind force with outside cars deflecting the wind. Maybe the force will be reduced by as much as half with deflector car(s), and the dooor will be much stronger with a internal bace against a car. Putting a towel or scrap of carpet between the door and car will help avoid paint damage. If the garage door blows in, wind gets inside the garage and the wind pressure is then lifting the roof, good chance of tearing it off.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: MickTurn 10/20/2022 1:12:06 PM (No. 1309872)
If Joey's slugs were doing this work they wouldn't have fixed anything yet because their consensus meetings would still be going on. Shut up and get to work, assuming you know what you're doing, if not get the Hades out of our way!
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Reply 8 - Posted by: rikkitikki 10/20/2022 1:41:56 PM (No. 1309896)
If Joey's slugs were doing this work, they'd all be waiting for their electric vehicles to charge up somewhere on the long drive down from DC.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: rikkitikki 10/20/2022 1:43:23 PM (No. 1309899)
Any reports yet of how electric vehicles are doing in the repair efforts? I refer, of course, to the ones able to charge on a gasoline-powered generator...
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Reply 10 - Posted by: Urgent Fury 10/20/2022 2:19:51 PM (No. 1309915)
Does Sundance live on Sanibel or one of the other islands hit?
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Reply 11 - Posted by: 3XALADY 10/20/2022 5:40:41 PM (No. 1310048)
I lived in Lake Suzy, FL and was in our home during Hurricane Charley 8/04. Our first hurricane, no shutters (just like everyone else). My Navigator was in the garage so DH tied the garage doors to the bumper and pulled his Navigator up in front of the house which protected windows and the glass door. We had damage from flying roof tiles and lost a lot of shingles. Nothing happened in the front where the cars were but much damage to the large sliding doors in the back of the house. I never want to sit thru another one.
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