The over development on wet lands has caused all this flooding.I'm a true native.I've never seen it like this.There was nowhere for the water to go thousands of trees taken down to put in thousands of houses. And when it came by sarasota it was only a tropical storm.
@hoxiefam6731
Ай бұрын
It didn't matter it was only a tropical storm, it sent rain bands after rain bands towards Sarasota and Manatee river (I'm just north of the river) we got more rain than hurricane Ian.
@elsie412ok
Ай бұрын
^ this
@lovingthebeach
Ай бұрын
Paved paradise and put up a parking lot. Just like Fayetteville NC. Over developing on what was farmland. Taking away land "nature's sponge" to build leads to flooding!
@odessajackson4551
29 күн бұрын
Never say Never.. Mother nature does whatever the Fuck she wants to.. so stop paving Paradise to put in a parking lot!!
@butterman4610
29 күн бұрын
A friend of mine said the same thing. She’s lived in the Sarasota area for 30 years
@mht5875
Ай бұрын
Lived in Sarasota for 10 years, they are building on every square inch of land. Guess what? You cannot do that without serious repercussions, especially on swamp land
@Michael-qy1jz
Ай бұрын
Thank the Govt & Fed for pumping in 8 Trillion in 2020 plus massive programs that created these bubbles and over building. Thank the Fed for forcing rates to ZERO in 2009 for all the mass over building here. Horrendous
@Michael-qy1jz
Ай бұрын
They erased my comment as soon as I name the 2 institutions to blame
@richscott2952
26 күн бұрын
Gotta love the traffic
@jk6854
Ай бұрын
Poor land management , over development , greed.
@nicolatesla5786
Ай бұрын
Assume assume assume don't make a Ass out of U and Me !
@martinmurphy4852
Ай бұрын
You got that right. I moved here in 85 and Sarasota was a decent place to live with a low cost of living. You could have an efficiency on Siesta for 450 a month and you could pretty much eat out of the bay if you had a fishing pole and cast net. Now we may as well rename the place McMansionville. Sterile overpriced cookie cutter crap everywhere you look populated by new arrivals who have no idea what they helped to destroy but will tell me how its me that needs to help save the environment.
@martinmurphy4852
Ай бұрын
@@nicolatesla5786 obsequious, obsequious, obsequious. Let me guess. You are highly invested or your employment depends on destroying what is left of Sarasota
@viadharmawheel
Ай бұрын
Based upon the reports they are in a low lying part of the area. The area in general is interior and high enough to avoid these things but being the lowest part of an area has the "bowl" affect. All of the new construction around didn't help I am sure.
@timboc105
Ай бұрын
@martinmurphy4852 BINGO you nailed it. Born and Raised in Central Florida 1965
@craigspools1
29 күн бұрын
Looks like another one of those new neighborhoods that shouldn’t have been built in the swamp.
@MG-ke7tp
Ай бұрын
Very open, honest, and knowledgeable reporting. I’ve learned more from watching this than on any local or national news broadcast. Keep up the good work, Zach.
@deb6061
Ай бұрын
Great video! We are FL natives from N. FL and we just recently moved to TN to be closer to our grandkids. FL was getting too expensive for us. Homeowners insurance, property taxes, auto insurance….you name it is getting out of control there. We’re saving about $7,000-$8,000/year by living in TN. I don’t miss the hurricane drama at all, but feel bad for everyone who did get flooded out of their beautiful homes. So sad to see!
@bawillard2578
Ай бұрын
I am in FL. I've lived in Tennessee. Glad u r with your family. The one not so great issue in cold weather ...it costs money to heat ,winterize everything. And dress for cold .. I am with you not in disagreement.
@lourdesm.velandia-calderon3486
29 күн бұрын
@deb6061 Spent end if the yr. holidays with hubby, kids & his sister's family up in an airbnb in Cosby TN. Visited the Great Smokies, visited 2 waterfalls, got detained in the Smokies at closing due to someone falling into a ditch, snowplow cleared the path thru Cade's cove for us city slickers, so glad we were in a group, scariest ride out of there at night knowing the river is on the left side of the road. What normally would have taken us 40 min. or so took us double the time, we were very careful driving in the snow. The rest of the visit was just as amazing, I had to lie to my boys that Mt. LeConte was closed because they had no ice-hiking shoes, not enough thermal & warm clothes, really just risk-taking teens I was not about to loose easily to a slip on ice & tumble down the mountain side. So we went on a hike as far as we could go past one of the waterfalls. I love mountains but am looking for somewhere that is not humid. I already live in S. Florida. Also went walking to Kyle Carver's Apple Orchards, amazing. The whole family returned for a farewell meal there.
@jet4415
29 күн бұрын
Florida native here, grandfather was born in the keys, mom was born in Miami, dad born in Jacksonville. Moved out of state and have lived in the NC mountains for 26 years. Glad to be out of Florida.
@bobhogan2829
28 күн бұрын
@@deb6061 going to retire soon lived in Florida for 44 years. I'm going to Georgia in the country. Florida is to over populated and to expensive.
@user-kd2hz4mc3f
28 күн бұрын
I move back to CT, but lived in TN franklin for 3 years I loved it but Covid sent us back to CT now we live in WA I don’t like it here it’s over priced would love to move back to TN
@bradleyrupska4988
Ай бұрын
People building and buy these homes don't understand low lying areas. As a construction worker. I understand. But, all these neighborhoods where built as cheap as possible!!!! As fast as possible!!!!
@AStanton1966
Ай бұрын
Your video did a good job depicting the flooding.
@righteouswalk8128
Ай бұрын
Those 2 people with flood insurance were VERY wise.
@toploadtele
Ай бұрын
Clearly, whoever was in charge of engineering the site work for the new developments made some terrible calculations and a huge mistake. The water had nowhere to go. This will really hurt the value of the affected homes.
@richardmesser1091
Ай бұрын
Were they the same people that caused the the flooding all the way to NY. and Quebec from the same storm.
@bobbieabbott
Ай бұрын
That is what I cannot understand why Sarasota seems to think that the hurricane only affected them, especially that one particular subdivision there were homes in Pennsylvania that were floating down the river. I don’t understand these people you’re surrounded by water in Florida. You have lakes and canals in Florida and when you have a hurricane come through that is not your normal typical rainfall so why are people so shocked that it flooded
@jcmjcm1945
Ай бұрын
What value it's zero now and all the others will have raised insurance to compensate for their loss
@MyLoganTreks
Ай бұрын
For every degree warmer it gets the atmosphere holds 7% more moisture... Engineering for the 500 yr storms are needed because they are happening every 5-10 yrs now
@rowlandkrause5930
Ай бұрын
They don’t care they line there pockets
@aerictoremember03
Ай бұрын
Yeah man.. I’m so sick of it here. Between the ridiculous population growth, traffic, inflation, pollution etc. Government wonders why the flooding is getting worst, well maybe it’s because everywhere you turn they’re paving over wetlands and putting retention ponds everywhere.
@rumproast5159
29 күн бұрын
They keep changing the water table every time a new home is built. Duh!!!! You would think they would get it.
@GreatMotherSpeaks
Ай бұрын
Research? They built a subdivision on swamp lands.🧐🫣
@S6old6ier6
Ай бұрын
Florida native going back generations in the bradenton Sarasota area. The main issue on why it flooded like it did was the massive growth in new housing devolpments. The normal runoff from when the dams open up were blocked off so it flooded all the new neighborhoods. The infrastructure in the area hasn't been updated since the early 1990s. On top of dumping close to 1 billion yes billion gallons of raw untreated sewage into the rivers and gulf during and shortly after the storm.
@matthewswingle391
Ай бұрын
So you’re saying they should build more houses so we can stucco ourselves to prosperity? Nevermind Florida is going to run out of water. Whoever fills the bog higher wins.
@nicolatesla5786
Ай бұрын
Make a Ass out of U and Me ..try again !
@stevenevangelist5221
Ай бұрын
Seems like a health hazard.
@stevenevangelist5221
Ай бұрын
@@matthewswingle391Florida buys sand from the Bahamas. Can you believe that?
@richardim499
Ай бұрын
Not new to weather or bad news, a Tornado leveled our family's hat factory in VA, but I say Americans cannot keep flipping the bill for Auto workers and keeping Illigators afloat, terrible knowing that some can file a claim and insurers will deny them with something that wasn't covered calling it "Wind Turbulence" bad enough your Hockey Team is controlled by G's ...All F's down there , I'd give it all back to Spain especially when people just dig up graves i.e Ron van Zandts for souvenirs.....Word to your Mutha
@AMart870
Ай бұрын
Thank you for showing us what the News isn't showing us, being able to see and ride along with you through the video WOW just devastating, I hope people realize that material things like houses, cars, trucks and boats are replaceable a life isn't, sending love from Arkansas!
@Anne-fi2tc
Ай бұрын
Deathsantis doesnt want the country to see the crappy job he is doing😊
@MyLoganTreks
Ай бұрын
Yes the tourism board doesn't want you to see this or know that 97% of all corals in Florida were cooked bleached from the heat in July 2023
@EnjoyingWhitePrivilege
Ай бұрын
Some of my lego sets are irreplaceable.
@EnjoyingWhitePrivilege
Ай бұрын
@Anne-fi2tc Because DeSantis developed this neighborhood you loon.
@lourdesm.velandia-calderon3486
29 күн бұрын
@AMart870 - Best comment here so far. Thank you!! THE ALMIGHTY'S BLESSINGS!!
@Bridgeoverthevalley
Ай бұрын
So sorry for all who were impacted by Debbie. Indeed a tragedy to lose your home. Good luck to all in their recovery.
@florencehendrick4781
Ай бұрын
It's all about greed.....builders, realtors, greed is everywhere...
@angusmorrison9433
Ай бұрын
County planners and County Commissioners.
@nikkiharrison7290
Ай бұрын
I’m a 3rd generation my grandkids are 5th I’ve lost 2 homes to hurricanes 🌀 THE AMOUNT OF PEOPLE HERE NOW IS A DEFINITE OVERLOAD FOR OUR SYSTEMS. I miss old Sarasota when Fruitville was a 2 lane road there was no I-75 .
@terryhunter2526
27 күн бұрын
Amen
@G.Dandres
Ай бұрын
Miami inland here , never flooded until they started the construction of buildings around our single home neighborhoods...now i have 3 water pumps in my backyard. More concrete..less green.
@angusmorrison9433
Ай бұрын
That’s what caused the flooding “driving up into” the newer neighborhoods. Newer homes had fill brought in to raise them up further and their water ran in the older neighborhoods. It’s happening all over with new building. The county should be held responsible for approving the building plans and not incorporating sufficient drainage.
@AGFL83
Ай бұрын
The FEMA flood maps are available to the public. Go ahead and look at this place on the flood map. Only the houses were raised barely above the flood zone. The whole community is built on a watershed. The neighboring communities are similar but raised higher, the houses and the roads. Buyer beware. Don't buy into "I've never seen it flood here", it's right on the map plain as day.
@TheHivefl
Ай бұрын
I worked for the civil contractor that developed Artistry and the one on the north side of Palmer just west of Artistry. I was in charge of environmental including dewatering. Both of the those properties were extraordinarily wet with tons of swales and ditches. The entire Artistry property on the SE side was a lake when we started, and it wasn’t even peak rainy season. The one just north of Palmer was even wetter. There we cattle out there barely with their heads out of the water after a few big afternoon storms before we started the project. We made fills at Artistry on pads that were more than 10’. Most of the property north of Palmer was 6-8’ fills. We built stormwater infrastructure, but only for 100 year events. That canal that runs on the west side of Artistry backs up bad. This is a case of shit planning, maintenance activities being neglected, and a meteorological set up that was highly unfavorable.
@jazzyflorida3757
Ай бұрын
Good to know! This is the kind of information I would want to know before dropping a million dollars into one of these master planned communities
@brigadiergeneral2399
Ай бұрын
@@jazzyflorida3757😮
@nancysmith2389
Ай бұрын
Didn't you just say you were in charge of the planning? Lol
@TheHivefl
Ай бұрын
@@nancysmith2389 No, I mean planning in the sense of designing the subdivision and its stormwater infrastructure. I was involved in executing/building what was designed.
@lourdesm.velandia-calderon3486
29 күн бұрын
@TheHivefl - Thank you for your honesty sir. My respects.
@sandspurpatch
Ай бұрын
We had one in the early 1960s that was still the "great flood". Phillippi Creek was outrageous. Now you just have a ton more people. FYI when I was born here in 1954 the state population was 2.75 million. Today it is 22.75 million. It flooded then, it just didn't matter when nobody was there.
@allanbauer4076
27 күн бұрын
Florida is a huge state. Travel around the central part and you will see it is wide open. Nobody wants to live there. Everybody wants to live by the water. They overbuild and it floods
@ranelson714
Ай бұрын
This is so very disheartening. What a horrendous time these people are facing with the cleanup. I just can't imagine what they are going through.
@babewhowalks
Ай бұрын
Anyone who builds there should have to build on stilts, like 4’ above ground level, this is nuts, season after season, half the state is flooded, people are not learning
@alicekramden8640
Ай бұрын
So if you want to know why Lorraine Meadows is suffering with these never before felt floods? Look to the builders. They are changing terrain indiscriminately, filling in ponds and opening other swales. Now the water doesn’t know where to recede.
@edmardt
Ай бұрын
Aerial view of this development tells part of the problem, these homes are surrounded by man made canals that go nowhere and do not drain out, they are basically ponds for decoration, so when the heavy rain came in these canals overflowed and the water flooded the neighborhood. Also , did not notice any storm drains within this community. The quick fix would be to pump out the canals and leave them dry, or fill them in and install grass.
@tr7b410
Ай бұрын
Florida:The state where every home will boast an indoor pool. The ground water tables are rising+heavy rain+ storm surge & you have a natural disaster of biblical proportions.
@nsh1980
Ай бұрын
The canals are all connected and absolutely drain out. If it was how you describe it would flood every time it rains.
@viadharmawheel
Ай бұрын
The ponds are for water retention for runoff generated from the development, not coming from other areas. All new developments are designed to flood the streets. They are apparently in a small "bowl" maybe a few feet or so lower than the surrounding homes and they are getting flooded. I don't like how they are so close to a sewage treatment plant. Just because they are West of the highway doesn't mean they are safe from flooding. They are safe from a Hurricane storm surge but if there location is a natural low spot or low spot created by newer developments being raised higher and the sewage treatment plant overflowing. Very sad for the homeowners.
@annehazell3676
Ай бұрын
Those canals are supposed to drain into Phillippi Creek. Apparently, the pipes were plugged up with debris.
@arleenmorlino4019
Ай бұрын
Exactly but they want us to think it’s because of climate change 🙄
@nicolafazio674
29 күн бұрын
It’s horrible, I pray that those affected are able to recover quickly
@ericaknesek3266
Ай бұрын
Don’t play in flooded streets. If the sewage backs up, your children are playing in sewage.
@lourdesm.velandia-calderon3486
29 күн бұрын
Zach Payne is CRUSHING IT!!! you're a great example to your peers.
@user-sd5ow2lz9o
27 күн бұрын
While it was a well-done in-depth report, it was, after all, a sales job to calm fears of out-of-area buyers to hopefully generate sales leads! When in reality, even though only a relatively small area was unable to drain the water away quickly, there will still be huge increases in every state resident's homeowner's cost of insurance every year from now on, plus huge increases in ever resident's car insurance costs, no matter where you live and no matter whether you ever get any direct storm damage or not! We all pay big increases to help cover damage to many other's houses, and that amount will continue to make living here in Florida unaffordable to more and more people every passing year! He should be including that warning that any perspective out of state buyers need to be very certain that a) their employment is very secure for many years, and b) that their income will be guaranteed to substantially increase annually a good deal more than their anticipated future cost of living will rise, so they will still be able to comfortably afford to love here still in, say 5 or 10 or 15 years. Most people can't be very sure of their future continued employment or salary increases like workers in the past could.... He should be preaching CAUTION, as home buyers will need much higher levels of wealth to exist living here in Florida than waa possible in the past!!
@jamesm568
Ай бұрын
Just because it has not flooded in forever doesn't means it's not a flood zone as every storm brings a unique disaster.
@MichaelBrown-ny3et
Ай бұрын
If you think insurance is high now, wait until next year. What a mess. Just insurance and taxes will be pricing most out of homeownership in Florida in the near future. Only the rich will be able to afford it, if they even stay.
@ZachPayneSarasotaRealEstate
Ай бұрын
@@MichaelBrown-ny3et the wealthy will stay and continue to build homes. I believe there are external factors that causes the flooding in small parts of Sarasota. This is not natural at all. Over development has something to do with it.
@hoxiefam6731
Ай бұрын
@@ZachPayneSarasotaRealEstate we also got unprecedented amounts of rain. More than during hurricane Ian. I am just north of Sarasota and I've never seen that much rain in my life!
@jsd354
28 күн бұрын
You’re right, and the Sarasota property taxing authority is working 24/ hours a day to reevaluate and raise property taxes, why…it’s all waterfront now!
@johnweber6612
27 күн бұрын
take a hike with the doctor doom jive
@theathenachannel88
Ай бұрын
Good Gracious! That is very sad...thank you for this incredibly informative video!! Zach Payne you are a natural in front of the camera and a truly gifted communicator...YES this did calm me because your delivery is perfection!❤
@CaptTony107
Ай бұрын
It's essential to find a real estate agent who is from THE AREA! So many have arrived in the past ten years to cash in on the mass migration to Florida and have no idea of a given area's storm/flood history. They won't lie to you; they'll tell you what they know about an area, which usually isn't much.
@2MasterBuilder2
28 күн бұрын
Based on all of the retention ponds, this area was definitely low lying swamp land. At 7:37, the water is literally flowing into the neighborhood.
@C1K450
Ай бұрын
These urban planners and engineers need to take more consideration of environmental sustainability in their developments and adapt to this environment. Man made canals and ponds turned this subdivision into a lake without trying to make any outlets or canals into a larger body of water. Or run off into a forest or marsh area/Everglades.
@joycesims5242
Ай бұрын
Florida is one big sand bar..
@richardmesser1091
Ай бұрын
So is Saudi Arabia
@lovingthebeach
Ай бұрын
Paved paradise and put up a parking lot. Just like Fayetteville NC. Over developing on what was farmland. Taking away land "nature's sponge" to build leads to flooding!
@grinner68
Ай бұрын
“It’s never flooded like this before” but at the end you remind everyone that just 20 years ago it was farmland and flooded pretty regularly. I feel for the people who have lost their homes, but it was a stupid place to build a subdivision. This is all on the greed of the developers.
@REVNUMANEWBERN
28 күн бұрын
Sir, You are doing a GREAT SERVICE in reporting these details
@TheJanet4321
Ай бұрын
I will visit Florida again someday, but never move there.
@anitahall3340
Ай бұрын
Very good. I got out too, it’s not worth it
@Anne-fi2tc
Ай бұрын
Moved out of Florida after 25 years ! Best decision i made in a long time
@dapperdino1996
Ай бұрын
FL native here. Moved last year. Would never go back again. I enjoy having seasons and not having 9 months of summer heat. Also enjoy cheaper insurance and no flooding either. 😊
@Anne--Marie
Ай бұрын
You're smart.
@EnjoyingWhitePrivilege
Ай бұрын
Thank-you. Stay in your filthy state.
@davidstewart343
Ай бұрын
Hi Zach, I think you did a really good job covering this flooding. Obviously I feel very sad for all those affected
@abfutrell
Ай бұрын
The fact they're pumping the water tells you one or more culverts for the canal has a blockage (whether that's from debris or adjacent new construction damaging existing pipework? Time will tell). The other possibility, the new pipework associated with the Reclamation Facility next door maybe involved. In either case it's going to be a lot of finger pointing. Supposedly the canals were cleaned recently. Did they inspect the pipes?
@NickeyVamp
Ай бұрын
I would be sueing the developers and anyone who did the site survey.. X zone that is crazy.. thank you for showing us this.. Much ❤ to those poor people who lost thier homes and belongings and have to rebuild thier lives.. 😢
@ExpeditionNomadicAdventures
Ай бұрын
The question now becomes: In Florida, how high above the possible flood level should you build a home to avoid catastrophic flooding?
@TakeTheRide
27 күн бұрын
Yep and the next time it'll be a tornado.
@tedm4932
23 күн бұрын
That was great coverage also with actually riding down flooded roads with first hand look . Kudos to the guy who drove his truck !!
@DaveMartin-l3y
Ай бұрын
Thanks for the great overview Zach. Nice reporting.
@lourdesm.velandia-calderon3486
27 күн бұрын
When we moved to our home in S. Florida it was located in a flood zone so we had that insurance for several years. But then FEMA removed it from the flood map. Hurricane Wilma in 2005 was the worst I've seen but thank THE LORD that we did not have any major damage because my brother in law was with us and he & my husband protected our home. These are not newly built, they were constructed in early 80's. My suggestion is to get familiar with the area you are looking to buy a house. The community had owners living here for 20 years & they are the best people to talk to. So it just takes patience, getting out & observing the area you like, talking to residents, etc. To thise families affected by Debby I wish them much support, and a quick recovery!!
@ValsVersion
Ай бұрын
MOLD. Days of water sitting in tropical sun.
@amisunshineraee9796
27 күн бұрын
The smell must be awful 😖
@ValsVersion
27 күн бұрын
@@amisunshineraee9796 I feel so bad for the homeowners.
@amisunshineraee9796
27 күн бұрын
@@ValsVersion absolutely terrible , so sad 😞
@christopherweaver2398
19 күн бұрын
Stayed with a friend south of Sarasota for 11 months after selling my California home and noticed black mold growing on the homes. He said they have to wash their homes annually to keep up. When I asked about the non-uniform, two-tone color interior of his car, he said it was due to mold. It was about then, in 2016, I decided against buying property in Florida and moved back to the dry, California desert.
@dariuszcisowski
Ай бұрын
Real estate agents prioritize their financial interests over the safety and well-being of their clients. Their primary objective is to facilitate the sale of properties, regardless of potential risks or hazards associated with the location.
@Meatislife
Ай бұрын
This is so crazy. I live in the neighborhood on Nandina. You went by right when Mission BBQ were delivering meals to my neighborhood. I literally missed you by 5 minutes. Btw I appreciate the driver going slow. The only flood water I really got here was when a garbage truck barreled through and shot the water up into my open garage.
@ZachPayneSarasotaRealEstate
Ай бұрын
@@Meatislife yep I’ve seen too many people not understand what kind of wake they are creating, driving through these streets and neighborhoods making things worse.
@terrymarks4388
Ай бұрын
Hey but there's no state income tax, that surely makes up for the price of Home insurance, flood insurance, Car Insurance and Property taxes and HOA fees, and lets not forget about outrageous assessment fees for condo owners😂🤣🤣🤣. I live about 2 hrs North of NYC with a 2400 sq. Ft. 4 bedroom 2 1/2 bath house sitting on .75 acre, with a 36x30 above ground pool, with a wooden deck covering 1/3rd the pool length. My house is valued at between $350-$400K, and I paid just under $1400 for Home insurance last yr. No HOA fees, No flood insurance, No assessments. I paid $4800 in property taxes this yr. I also have a 2018 Toyota Highlander. I pay $84 a month for full coverage $100K/$300k coverage, full glass, $500 deductible on collision. I'm in my early 50's. My sister lives in St. Pete and owns a 1600 sq.ft. home. She paid $4800 in home insurance and $6K in property taxes, plus $2K in flood insurance and $2300 in car insurance for 2017 Toyota Camry and she's in her early 60's
@ZachPayneSarasotaRealEstate
Ай бұрын
@@terrymarks4388 that sounds nice and all but I can’t stand the cold and don’t want to live around snow and ice.
@purplesocks9745
Ай бұрын
So what’s your point. You still live in New York.
@Scarredfan
29 күн бұрын
I'm a multi-generational Floridian. I've seen flooding but not Sarasota and definitely not like that. If Sarasota is that bad I can only imagine how bad lower Venice is. Punta Gorda, being right in Charlotte Harbor and being an historically old city always floods. To be expected as is thr area of the Peace River, Horseshoe Creek and Myakka rivers from the headwaters... People here had no flood insurance which means they're not going to be covered for their losses and that's devastating after a flood.
@mick976
29 күн бұрын
Insurance rates are going to skyrocket for everyone, the state of Florida should foot the bill to repair and replace these buildings
@commonsenselucy5697
28 күн бұрын
"Kooky talk." Where do you think the State of Florida will get that money? From the taxpayers, of course. C'mon now. It's NOT always the government's job to bail people out. It's called "too bad," and it can happen to anyone ANYWHERE. It's up to the "homeowner" to investigate before they buy. Just saying..... We got to STOP always expecting the government is going to "FIX THINGS" because they CAN'T AND THEY WON'T.
@saga4646
29 күн бұрын
Bought a home in Florida when i first moved here in 2004 after getting hit with charlie, wilma ,ivan and taxes that tripled a housing bubble.....NEVER AGAIN!!!!!
@ericaknesek3266
Ай бұрын
Get ready for the massive Florida exitus in homes decreasing in prices. I lived there for 11 years and I’ve never seen anything like this.
@johnweber6612
27 күн бұрын
can the hysteria
@alexisthutrungnguyen7563
27 күн бұрын
I don’t think that will happen. People are still moving into the Sarasota area. The County will correct this problem.
@johnweber6612
27 күн бұрын
can the hysteria, a tropical storm floods about 1 percent of houses and you predict doomsday
@kwhite6453
Ай бұрын
Good channel Zach. Thanks for keeping it to the point. These folks are hurting.
@JohnPilling25
Ай бұрын
St. Lucie West has the same problem, the engineers used the wrong datum to set the height as a result when it was cleared and flattened for construction the base level (datum) was wrong and it's now a bowl, 3 ft too low. Also, being flat, there is no gradient to drain the water away. The developers don't want the expense of bringing in millions of cubic metres of fill - which should be rock and aggregate not sand - to raise the base level for construction. Even in my neighbourhood they shy away for building the base level up above the roads to keep you dry. A few years ago we had over 18" of rain in about an hour and the road in front of my house was submerged within the hour - fortunately my house is a good 2' above the road - the water was creeping up the driveway but never got to the house. My point, developers do not want to raise the base level high enough to avoid flooding.
@aNYCdj
Ай бұрын
Just give the house back to the bank, if you have a no recourse loan. that's all the bank can ask for, .........don't waste you life trying to rebuild....its not worth it
@MyChannel-rv3zk
Ай бұрын
I live in Florida on the west coast also, and if this ever happened to me, I would walk away. My home is elevated with a lake at the drop. I never get soggy grass or flooding because it rolls down the steep slope. But I don't put anything past Florida.
@eliot5220
29 күн бұрын
People don’t use logic. They keep thinking that since the sun is shining 365 days a year except when there’s a storm that’s the best place to be. I only had to shovel about 6 inches or less of snow once or twice in the past couple years. It took me 5 minutes and didn’t cost me $150,000 in property damage.
@susanpitre1185
Ай бұрын
Exactly the reason why we left Florida!
@d.m.5017
29 күн бұрын
🤯Amen, I Love 💘My 🗽🏙NYC! Between June-November, GOOD LUCK WITH THAT! I was there for Hurricane Andrew Category 5. Sold my tiny home in Fort Lauderdale, 2005 & came back home to Brooklyn. If you ger categories 1-5, it's a wrap & the whole state will be under water.
@deanmarten
26 күн бұрын
Love Florida. Weather is amazing! Worth dealing with the occasional weather.
@chrisose
Ай бұрын
Looking at the satellite images of the area the problem is very obvious. There are lots of retention ponds but nowhere for those ponds to drain when they get full. Another thing that I noticed is the like with many new communities that I have seen being built in Central FL, they are excavating huge ponds/lakes and using they soil to elevate the homes sites. These ponds have no run-off so will still be prone to flooding. The more immediate effect of this "new" building method is that the water that doesn't get routed to the manmade ponds ends up moving into adjacent lower areas that were the homes sites were not built up in the initial development stage. The drone footage @7:33 perfectly demonstrates exactly what I described above. You will notice that the retention pond is within a few feet of most of the homes and is likely breaching some of them. The shots of Worthington continues to provide evidence in support of my analysis and it is a pretty safe bet that the three islands in the middle of Worthington were flooded. Building the houses on a couple extra feet of sand is no substitute for properly handling storm run-off. Allowing builders to get away with this kind of shortcut is one of the factors that make home owners insurance in Florida is near impossible to get and a kings ransom when you do. There is also a massive amount of blame to be put on the local and state governments for allowing these developments to be built without proper drainage in exchange for campaign contributions and less legal considerations. Your rosy outlook because "All the water levels are back to normal" is BS. There are hundreds if not thousands of families who are now effectively without homes and will be for months to come. And because this is Florida in August the next storm could be here at almost any time. That storm may bring even more rain and take the homes of even more people. Until the drainage issues with the entire area are dealt with properly, a knowledgeable and responsible real estate agent would not sell any properties in this area.
@ZachPayneSarasotaRealEstate
Ай бұрын
@@chrisose see it’s people like you who blow things out of proportion and dumb down situations you clearly have no knowledge about that frustrate many people who have experienced something like this. The flooding in those neighborhoods had to do with levies and dams being opened and allowing water to move west. We have had rain before. Rain much worse than this and we have never experienced flooding to this scale. Also you clearly know nothing about what you talk of saying stating that thousands of families have been displaced and without homes when you don’t even know to what scale any damages happened.
@chrisose
Ай бұрын
@@ZachPayneSarasotaRealEstate I've seen these same scenarios play out time after time and each time apologist like you minimize the issues because you have a financial stake in the game. So you just keep selling those houses and collecting your commissions but stop pretending that you give a shit about what happens to these people.
@LindaDiD
Ай бұрын
Great video! When you surround a subdivision with canals and streams, and have 100 year flooding like in Laurel Lakes bad things are going to happened. It is unusual that it was so bad in that one subdivision.
@ZachPayneSarasotaRealEstate
Ай бұрын
@@LindaDiD yes! When looking at the drone footage you can tell this neighborhood was built like a big bowl! No where for the water to go but just sit
@MAJOR-D
Ай бұрын
Young man you do an outstanding job, great video I have a home in Aria and thank god it didn’t flood there, I did by flood insurance three months ago, thanks Zack I have subscribed to your channel
@katehughes1860
29 күн бұрын
We are across from you in Milano. Thankfully all good here!
@claudiahansen4938
Ай бұрын
Excellent video. Better coverage than the networks.
@Anne-fi2tc
Ай бұрын
Why are the networks hiding this devastation ???
@anitaboyd1727
29 күн бұрын
Shortly after moving to the Tampa Bay area In the mid 1990s, there was massive flooding in western Florida near the Peace River. Because most of Florida is at or below sea level, flooding can happen without named storms. We decided before we purchased any property to rely on a topographical map. Every time we moved, we paid attention to rivers, streams and elevation. None of our houses have ever flooded.
@allanbauer4076
27 күн бұрын
Everybody wants to live by the Gulf or by a river. It floods there. Never live within 5 miles of either one. At the very least your chances of flooding are a lot less.
@dirtychina5331
Ай бұрын
This whole area used to be a mud hole in the 90s.
@viadharmawheel
Ай бұрын
I feel sorry for the homeowners. Their property values have been cut in half.
@Pinkfrosting962
Ай бұрын
Half? They’re flooded and have an HOA. Who in their right mind would buy it?
@stevenevangelist5221
Ай бұрын
What's HOA say about flooding? Just curious.@@Pinkfrosting962
@CarlWithACamera
Ай бұрын
@@Pinkfrosting962yup, the new laws just enacted include a requirement to disclose past flooding.
@chargermopar
Ай бұрын
When this happens in Miami property values go up!
@mannettegaray2589
Ай бұрын
@@chargermoparcause Miami is the land for money launderers who are keeping families homeless
@bradleyrupska4988
Ай бұрын
It's very very sad that all these people are in this trouble. Before moving to St Petersburg Florida in 2018. I experienced a flooding in Indiana in 2008. Fema is a joke. I had 16 people and 8 dogs living in my 1200sq ft home!
@Bubba-wx7lp
Ай бұрын
Look,this isn't hard to understand.That Sarasota area got 15 inches of rain, most in all of Florida from Debby. Florida is just a ridge of almost sea level land,that extends into open ocean on both sides. It's all basically swamp land.
@sherrypeterson1842
Ай бұрын
No swampier than new york city. Thats at sea level too
@MyChannel-rv3zk
Ай бұрын
Homeowners trying to find someone to blame...all the research in the world will NOT save you from a natural disaster.
@hoxiefam6731
Ай бұрын
Those neighborhoods were not planned properly. My neighborhood got at least 16 inches of rain as well right above the Manatee river not a flood zone. And our neighborhood drained fine.
@daniellemoxley-z1r
20 күн бұрын
born and raised in Sarasota- I have NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE THIS!!!! We have have many storms pass us through my 38 years here. This is super sad. The developers will deny it, this area has been overbuilt on, my family and I watched it and called this out WAY before this happened. People RUN! Im so sorry for the people who homes are ruined, it just breaks my heart to see this. STOP BIULDING, people go to all community gatherings, VOTE!!!!!!!!!!! FIGHT THEM EVERY STEP OF THE WAY TO STOP THE DAMN BUILDING!!!!!
@alabamagirl2725
Ай бұрын
I've lived in Venice and Englewood off and on since 74. I came back in 98 because my dad was dying. I hate it here. Way to expensive for what? I haven't been to the beach in years. To much sewer run off. My spouse won't leave and soon I'm making an ultimatum. Go back to Tuscaloosa or live here without me. Too much building. Too many people now. Traffic, high property and insurance costs. Everything is to expensive. I go home 3 times a year and see how much cheaper I can live. I'm a nurse and can get a job that pays a dollar less. I don't feel sorry for these people. They chose to live here. They built on farm and swamp land. What do you expect.
@Bubba-wx7lp
Ай бұрын
Exactly.Almost all of Florida is swampland.🐊🐊🐊
@hoxiefam6731
Ай бұрын
@@Bubba-wx7lpno it isn't. These areas may have been low lying but they don't hold water like swamps do. Seasonally maybe. If you look at the kinds of trees that grow it was pine land.
@tassoflamburis8220
Ай бұрын
I lived in Sarasota in 92 when we had torrential rains. For perspective, Phillippi Creek Oyster Bar was to the rafters. We spent the week, 24/7, pulling out cars that were stuck in the water. PSA cars are not submarines.
@lissyflur1907
Ай бұрын
Experts warn for decades, that Florida will be flooded more and more, as times goes by.
@athletikonaol
Ай бұрын
Gotta say tho..... beautiful area. Sarasota is a jewel.
@jsd354
28 күн бұрын
You must be a realtor to say this is beautiful
@debbykight6199
21 күн бұрын
Not any more!!!
@user-jr7xk7ox4o
Ай бұрын
Stop talking about flooding.before buying a house wherever go to the county zoning dept.and look at the elevation of the properties buy at the highest point...you will not flood...but high elevation points are more suspectable to wind damaged.
@junecoulthard8942
Ай бұрын
This is a huge wake up call! Just terrible to see these beautiful homes under water.
@johnshaw8228
Ай бұрын
No matter what anyone tells you, especially when they are selling you land, in some areas of Florida, you do not know what you are paying for until there is a heavy rain. Buyer beware. And when you pay your taxes, and go to the appropriate agencies for needed help, it might not be there for you at all.
@ZachPayneSarasotaRealEstate
Ай бұрын
@@johnshaw8228 this is a sad reality people are facing. I’ve lived through more major hurricanes and tropical storms that I can count here in Sarasota and I’ve never seen anything like this ever before. Nobody I’ve spoken to has seen anything like this before.
@MyChannel-rv3zk
Ай бұрын
@@ZachPayneSarasotaRealEstate I don't think it has anything to do with engineering....but everything to do with "Debby". Debby was aggressive with the entire east coast. The things homeowners are saying in Sarasota, other states are saying the same and worse (whole houses floating on water or crushed to the ground????????????). Have you really seen that before in multiple states?
@RichardCollins-tf9km
29 күн бұрын
Florida should consider elevating it's topography (creating artificial hills and designated valleys to control water flow better), and to build homes and other real estate on the elevated land.
@user-gd7bq8uz6k
Ай бұрын
🙏🏻 for all effected
@glaframb
29 күн бұрын
I lived in Laval, Quebec, Canada, far away from Sarasota, Florida, USA we got 154 mm of rain in 1 hour from Debby 15,4 cm in 1 hour or about 6 inches of rain. the previous record was 3 3/4 in i.e. 96 mm I got 4 inches in my basement because the power went out the sump pump stop working.
@commonsenselucy5697
28 күн бұрын
Like I said, "floods are happening ALL OVER THE WORLD" right now.....not just in Sarasota, Florida.
@brucewyszinski6716
Ай бұрын
That place is done
@ZachPayneSarasotaRealEstate
Ай бұрын
@@brucewyszinski6716 you clearly didn’t watch any of the video at all did you?
@1972Ray
29 күн бұрын
No it isn't.
@wiseoldowl7625
17 күн бұрын
What well-spoken young man! So professional. No "like" "you know" or UMMMM
@Deplor
Ай бұрын
NOW….Toxic mold….
@commonsenselucy5697
28 күн бұрын
Nice video; very informative. Great photography showing the "flooded areas." I left SRQ in 2023 to get away from the coast for hurricane reasons, but I still miss this place. I lived there 11 years, and let me tell you, it has "exploded" in almost a decade that I was there, with so many residential communities going up left and right. The town and the builders got "greedy." When my companion and I left there, he said, "Sarasota had outgrown itself." He was right, and he should know because he lived there for 50+ years. Very sorry for what people are going through.
@Macjohn1419
Ай бұрын
Beware that insurance is extremely expensive, if you can find a company that will insure your home.
@john-brady
Ай бұрын
Nice work, you illustrated the extent of this disaster all too accurately… I’m terribly saddened to see this. Seems like Florida is facing some serious existential threats which seem to be growing every season and it doesn’t look to me like there are any easy answers.
@sleepydoppy8516
Ай бұрын
You try and tell me the people who built this did not know this would happen
@debbykight6199
21 күн бұрын
They dont care,they build them where they shouldnt.I have seen them build houses on a old garbage landfill.
@dpetrano
Ай бұрын
I find true pleasure in seeing this chaos b/c I have been renting for many years due to unavoidable financial reversals making it impossible for me to be a home owner. These homeowners will now experience what its like to walk in my shoes.
@allanbauer4076
27 күн бұрын
Well said. Just because people have a lot of money doesn't mean they are smart. The amount of money people overpaid for houses is laughable.
@randallchronister3162
Ай бұрын
IF you live near any ocean you need to have 10million cash and also own 2 3 homes
@richardmesser1091
Ай бұрын
Opinions are not facts
@LionofJudah222
28 күн бұрын
Thank you Zach- excellent info and video! I subscribed to your channel 🙂
@dynodon9182
Ай бұрын
If you're 20 feet above sea level in a stormy area, you need flood insurance. Don't depend on the government to require it.
@TWTTV
25 күн бұрын
Still hoping that everyone can recover that has had their property damaged. Our thoughts and prayers are with them 🙏🏾~JT
@BubblesMcGhee
Ай бұрын
Engineered swampland, oversaturated , storms rolling through, corners cut & what else do we expect?
@MEMOEWILTONDALE
29 күн бұрын
I have lived in Sarasota 14 years and never seen anything like the flooding we have seen this summer. During a heavy rainstorm (not even a hurricane) in June, a flash flood (beyond our community area) destroyed our car's engine.
@ZachPayneSarasotaRealEstate
29 күн бұрын
@@MEMOEWILTONDALE agreed. in my 23 years I’ve not seen anything like this. This was something else that caused the mass amount of flooding other than just rainfall
@righteouswalk8128
Ай бұрын
Things like this change people's perspective. Folks are easily consumed with their own values and discounting others until...surprise. You're now in their shoes.
@robertnunn3015
22 күн бұрын
I left Sarasota/ Bradenton after many years there and I do not miss all those storms in the over priced market
@christophergaudreau9265
Ай бұрын
Another reason NOT to move Florida . . . All florida homeowners even the ones 100 miles inland will pay for these repairs HERE. . . State has turned into a Cesspool . . . . Literally . . . SO glad I left 3 years ago after living in Pinellas County for 30 years
@uberubu277
26 күн бұрын
I live in Sarasota over towards Siesta Key. We've had hurricanes hit here before, even had Cat. 4 Ian a few years ago just south of us, and we have never had this much flooding as we did with Debby. Even over here, which is about 10 miles from Lauren Meadows, we had cars bobbing down our street on Monday. It was totally bizarre.
@DavidPerez-oj2dv
Ай бұрын
DON'T BUILD HOME'S ON THE GROUND A HOUSE NEEDS A BIG FOUNDATION MY UNCLE HOUSE WAS ALEAST 15FT ABOVE GROUND
@RealDougFields
29 күн бұрын
Regulations are a good thing. I know people often blindly rail against Regulations because they dont understand why there is a need. This is why-
@williamjames8924
Ай бұрын
Maybe the tax assessor could raise their taxes and use that money to have land surveyed for drainage?
@dcoleman4444
Ай бұрын
The taxes are already high enough plus insurance.
@graysonedwards8875
Ай бұрын
There's no drainage system you can design that won't be over stressed at some point
@ZachPayneSarasotaRealEstate
Ай бұрын
@@williamjames8924 this was not only a drainage issue. There were Levies and dames that were opened which caused flooding in neighborhoods out east.
@Anne-fi2tc
Ай бұрын
@@ZachPayneSarasotaRealEstateask Desatan why the dams were opened
@rdee7406
Ай бұрын
This is a Sarasota issue not a Florida issue. I’ve lived here for 27 years in several spots in and around Tampa and never seen flooding like this
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