Sarasota residents experience major flooding from Tropical Storm Debby

I'd like to give big thanks to Yoder's restaurant for giving out FREE dinners to anyone with flooded homes today. I think that's an awesome thing to do for thier fellow man. Anything on the menu, totally free of charge, no questions asked. Many thanks to the Yoder family or whoever may be the owners. You've given me hope for humanity.

I live in Florida inland in a non flood zone. When I build my house I brought in 60 truckloads of dirt and raised my house 2 feet above surrounding land. You can never be to sure.

and the frustration is yet to come. now comes the rejection letters from insurance companies, which for most families is far more devastating

What’s wrong and what happened is over development my Grandaddy was the water would get higher the more the land was overdeveloped and the natural flood planes paved over and removed. He said this before he died in 1999 he said it would only continue to get worse if you look at the flooding lines and where they built the new houses and how much higher those new houses are built it has destroyed the natural floodplain and caused the issue. What is wrong is the county leaders are allowing overdevelopment of natural resource land that could be used to protect the already existing population from such high waters and the new pattern of water, runoff, and intense rain from storms that wouldn’t have originally accumulated as they did this is the real story and the lesson behind this storm I’ve lived in Manatee County all my life and it was never this bad

What happened was 18” inches of rain ! No need to over analyze it .

That's my old neighborhood 😢

You know you're in Florida when you see huge piles of household furniture and appliances out in front of the house.

Why do they stay, flooding there cars, trucks,all belongings

How devastating! There is no place on the coastal lying areas that is safe. I worried constantly when I lived in Boynton Beach. I left. Imagining starting over leaves me breathless. I pray for these unfortunate people. Move. Get out asap.

Crooked Creek HOA at proctor and Beneva went under. Refusing to file a insurance claim...

Keep building on wetlands

I’m not even from Florida and I have read on the flooding and sea level warnings in your state. They have a timeline of flooding within the next 10 yrs to be extreme.

That really sucks... There was nothing anyone could do, Debby dumped a historic amount of rain... More than the stormwater systems were designed to handle.

OMG where did this 💧 come from

It's happening now because rising sea level and the land is sinking.

Contact FEMA, they should be able to help you.

Most of Florida is just a few feet above sea level. The chances you take to live in Paradise. SUN ,BEACHES ,FUN. Suck it up people or move to higher ground.

I told everybody not to buy there. Now look at it.

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People having 6 cars is why the water is rising. Wake up.