We got 14' of storm surge. The parking pad under the house is @ 12' (1st floor is @ 19'). All fences gone, the pool full of sand. There is damage to the FSB siding, but it appears everything held. The HVAC platform even survived the wind tunnel between the houses. Today the neighbor is going in to survey. The big unknowns are the pool equipment, the commercial ice machine, and the elevator pump. Theoretically that was all under 1'-2' of water.
I'll know more today, but it survived a direct hit from the third most powerful storm to make US landfall in history. I'm sure what saved it was how fast the storm was moving. I'll bet that in the middle of the storm the neighbor was wishing she had evacuated... My wife begged her to leave, but it works out well for us now that she stayed, or we probably wouldn't know anything till next week.
The Cape San Blas Peninsula is now an island. The road is now sea. The wall at the stump hole failed, and all the houses on the beach there are completely wiped away.
I would not be surprised if make some acquisition moves in the wake of this disaster.
