Repairing houseboats now involves paperwork and a process that can take years, say owners. This means that more houseboats are sinking every day, leaving those who have depended on them without a source of income.
the storm. floodwaters, no power, difficult access to any kind of emergency services. it is unfathomable for his residents to try to go through this. you know, we ve been talking about the storm coming for days, but can you explain to us, the course of the storm kind of changed in the last day or so that caught people off-guard. because in new york, when we look at these images of marinas that are filled with boats that now looked like a boat graveyard, we figure why didn t people take them out of the water? but the really wasn t much time was? there wasn t. for very long time, we thought the storm was gonna be tracking a little bit more north than us, so we are under a lot of flood warning, storm surge, heavy rain and then we did not anticipate that it was going it directly and impact us the way it did. i went to downtown fort myers, the city of fort myers where there are a lot of people who live there year-round, or on houseboats. most of the docks are completely gone. boats comp