Thank you for checking in. Good to hear your electricity is restored. Now is the time to exhale and get some rest. Hurricane season precedes Florida’s paradise season!
Eyewall replacement cycle and shallow water and maybe magic, busted up the right side eyewall well before Charlotte Bay landfall.
That gap is the biggest part of what passed over Sanibel.
Dot.gov is spoon feeding us, so far. Sad music sheriff aerials, with zero location data... and scary words. Biblical, catastrophic, etc. Selling soap flakes, reaching for Fed $$, no solid info yet.
A few anecdotal snippets. Causeway island breach..SE to NW flow regime. Steel Lighthouse intact, on decimated SE point, two woodframe structures gone, one foundation remains, one MIA.
I have family about to commit Hari-Kari, radar data showing greens and light yellows at worst eyewall passage, the main (protective?) axis of the island in line with the causeway breach and sand spills, and a coupla pix with 99.9 percent of wood frames on Sanibel.. missing shingles.
Outside the lighthouse base...maybe 0.1%... “biblical.”
Typically dot-gov shoots gridded aerials, but I have gigs this weekend. Starting like 30 minutes ago, thru Colts kickoff Sunday.
Any links to those aerials, or any other comprehensive data on greater Sanibel... will ease a fair bit of friction on my end.
TIA.