I have four clients, I know of, who live in Tampa, specifically. One of them is under contract on a new house... should be closing this month. I feel for this guy. He's got Mutable planets and has really been through the wringer these last months.
Milton, ninety minutes ago.
This tie is being made. John Milton - Paradise Lost.
My parents and my mother in law own property on the gulf coast, but they're not there now - Thank God. Folks who said they were not evacuating at my MIL's mobile home park, 2 miles inland from Tampa, were told to write their names on their arms in sharpie marker.
My brothers and their families spent the night across the street in the basement of the neighborhood church (they all have mobile homes). They were treated extremely well and there was 0 damage to their mobiles.
Yay! Lots of churches here also opened their facilities "unofficially" via word of mouth to folks at risk.
Heads up hurricane people. When talking to your insurance company do not say "flood". Wind and rain damage. I hear they are trapping people so they don't have to pay out.
Yes, this is widespread. And wind/rain damage is perfectly true and plausible as long as any ground water has receded.
I had rain blowing in through the tiny space under my French doors which open onto my porch that is three feet above ground level. Fortunately I noticed it and hastened to fill the cracks with ripped open plastic grocery bags forced in with a butter knife, plus towels both inside and outside. I should've remembered after a similar experience the first time my porch was hosed off!