Million dollar private island washed away in Hurricane Ian
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ก.ย. 2024
- Listed for $999,999 a private island near Ft Myers, Florida, may have to be re-appraised after Hurricane Ian’s storm surge swept away a chunk of Little Shell Island.
Lesson Learned: A pile of sand, is NOT an Island.
Just a resting spot for a turd
Most of FL is a sand bar
@@waitaminute2015 coral chips 3 ft above sea level
@@waitaminute2015 so is your crotch
Problem is, “pile of sand”, describes all the barrier islands in the world. We have built billions of dollars of infrastructure on wave swept sand deposits.
I'm more concerned about folks losing their trailers and regular homes than some billionaire losing an island.
I guess you missed the part about the sub 1 million dollar price. A person with good credit and an annual income of 100k per year could own that island but you prob wouldn’t know that considering your mind immediately jumps to billionaire. Please seek help for your insecurities…
@@brandonleesanders If you think you could own a private island on a 100k salary then you don’t understand how things work. How much do you think you might have to put down as a down payment? What would the mortgage be if you had to finance 80% of it? What about travel to and from the island? What about having power and water filtration systems set up? I don’t care if you want to live in fantasy land. It doesn’t really bother me. I just hate when ignorant people say stupid things without being corrected. Have a good one!
@@jefftrusnik507 - You’re literally talking to a person who has amassed a 4 million dollar portfolio that was originally started from a 85k salary. I think it’s important to understand the difference between traditional loans and private money investing. All I hear is excuses and complaining as to why “someone else” is rich and “you’re not”. Maybe you should have a “can do” attitude rather than focusing on what you THINK you “can’t do”. Jesus Christ people will literally talk themselves out of their own success… I said NOTHING as to the viability of the island or whether it’s a good investment or not. My response was to the other persons original comment that implied someone would have to be a billionaire to own an island which is completely ignorant and inaccurate to which I believed were YOUR exact words.
@@brandonleesanders So your salary increased from 85k a year....and you lived under a bridge for more than 10 years and have no offspring ....I'm happy for you....
@@brandonleesanders and I'm heir to the Budweiser fortune. You really can be anything you want on the internet.
There's just some places you aren't meant to live. Common sense
Like SIBERIA?
@@sherileorna8450 Yeah, this tiny island is just like...Siberia. 🤨
@@SilentKnight43 lol
Facts shawty
With global warming ALL islands are screwed. Even mainland areas will be flooded eventually.
Basically it’s a sandbar. People have lost their lives “partying” on sandbars in the middle of lakes before. Sandbars can be deceiving, they can look stable, but they can also sometimes give way and break apart when people try standing/walking on them and of course people can drown when that happens.
First of all, one should know how to swim before playing such games with nature. As for those who drowned.... natural selection.
Scary
Exactly. I live at at the Jersey Shore and I have seen people go out on sandbars and then the tide come. I’ve also seen sandbars come and go over the years, even months.
When I visited Florida with my kids a few years ago, I swam out to where there used to be a sand bar. Every year when we were kids, we loved collecting shells and swimming out to the sand bar. The sand bar was about a foot and a half below the water at low tide. We were such proud 11-year-old boys, standing out in the "middle of the ocean" and all. But when I grew up and brought my own kids to the same exact place, there were hardly any of those little Cocina shells and the sand bar was just gone. That's how thirty years will have an effect.
Just do what they do in Hong Kong. Reclamation of land. Could easily make that 10 acres. China would have that done in 5 minutes like they did in South China Sea
I’m on the Florida intracoastal. There’s a 4.5 acre lot by me. Most of it is just below sea level. The sale sign advertises it as waterfront property. There’s so much flooding on it now, that every direction you stand on that lot is waterfront, including your toes. Hurricane Ian twisted that for sale sign in every direction. there is a reason why it’s never been developed.
I like the idea of my toes being waterfront property. Lol.
I'm looking at homes near two. Connecting rivers not many are not in flood zone and I hope to never wake up with 3ft water in my 1st floor
That is the other problem people developing where they never ever should have. Like you can't fill in wetlands and build a house there's a reason it's wetlands. They put houses in the buffer
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Like the Entire State of Florida
minus the panhandle..
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The fact of the matter is that barrier islands were nature's way of guarding the mainland against erosion & serves to offer some friction to the hurricane. They were not meant to be lived on but tourism will ignore the obvious. Banning co2 will have no effect whether you live on it or not.
If you ban co2, then we all cannot exhale. Yikes, that sounds rough.
Everything that breathes exhales co2, YES, probably won't be banned...
Natures way? you really think its that calculated?
The barrier islands are indeed important.
Some more adaptable to building than others.
Especially narrow islands and keys, 300 yards or less without back fill, should have never seen construction.
Nature shows us how she creates these barriers.
All we have to do is assess the amount of sand that was delivered onto the islands. These islands and keys were built, and destroyed, by this exact process over countless eons.
We will not be able to compete with nature on this.
It's not even a barrier island. It was formed when they built the bridge, thats where they dumped the sand and silt. So there.
Oh the horror, how will we cope with an obviously vulnerable island not being bought by some random millionare.
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😅 😆 😂
I know I’m devastated.
@@boblatkey7160 in ny and la yeah but not most of America xD
Good one
I’ve sometimes wondered, how do these little islands do in heavy storms. Well, now I know.
those are islands for crabs and birds, I hope there were no pets trapped :c
The foolish man built his house upon the sand.
Build your home in the rock! The rock of Jesus Crist Amen.
There is nothing new under the sun.
"and so castles made of sand slip into the sea... eventually". Jimi Hendrix
They aren’t planning to build a sand castle there, they are trying to build a castle on sand.
@@giraffeorganic get a life
That island is the joke of the miserable mile. They had a tiki bar out there for awhile. If I remember correctly, Cape Coral and fort myers utility companies both said they wouldn’t connect the island, so it would need a generator and water / sewage barged in/out. The public island at the end / start (depending on your perspective) with the long sandbar gets more boaters to stop and hang out in one day than that island ever would have withs it’s rock cliff wrapping the place. Even the fish never seemed to like that place
This is not the Miserable Mile. The MM existed decades before the mouth of the river ever became a slow zone.
@@crawdaddy2103 it might not be the historic miserable mile but everyone I know calls the slow zone wrapping Shell Point and bounded by those three islands the miserable mile. Googling around, I see some references to the intercostal from Picnic Island / tip of St. James City to Shell Point being the miserable mile but a lot more references call the slow zone area the miserable mile than do the that narrow stretch of channel
@@bigbuilder10 There was a restaurant, piano bar and tiki bar there.
We got a bunch of drunks here in Fredericktown, Missouri, donate that island to them, so we can get them the hell out of here.
@@bridgettewood1713 lol
In the early 1980s there was a hamburger restaurant on the island. I wasn't old enough to drive a car, but dad let me use the old Boston Whaler to pick up my sweetheart and take her for lunch. I think it was the No Name storm of 1993 that took out the restaurant.
You're 100% correct. My cousin Scotty and I ate many burgers there...
@@Dew-Man13 Thanks for the confirmation. Hard to believe that was about 40 years ago.
Back in 81 when I was 13 years old I traded a bucket of mullet for a cheeseburger at that restaurant 😋 , what good memories of a better time before Florida was completely destroyed by over development
Buy it and build a huge house on it so you can rebuild it again in 5 years and again in 10 years and again in 12 years.
Maybe the hurricanes will cleanse Florida of trash and let the wildlife take over.
That would be typical!
In a couple years they will have it rebuilt with a very nice house, and when the next big one comes the current residents will be stunned by the destruction. Ocean front comes with a price and risks.
Nope, there will never be a house out there. People have been going to build on these islands all my life, no one ever has.
The problem with ocean front property is that after a hurricane like this last one, its just ocean.
I used to live down there I know that Island very well. A pile of sand does not mean it can be an island that can be developed. It's basically a sandbar a party Island
and not even a good party island, anchoring is not that easy
No tears from me, thank you.
I lived in Ft.Muers from 1966 until 2020 and watched that island form from basically nothing. It was nothing but a small sandbar in the mid 1970's. I laughed when they planned to build a restaurant out there I believe that is when the docks were built. Proved my theory correct building on that island was a dumb idea.
Where is Ft. Muers at?
@T Mayorca: do simple typos seriously threaten you so much that you feel the need to point them out?
Jackassery such as yours deserves to be called out.
WOW! Shell Island was always a subject of conversation when we boated by.
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Wow! Could you imagine??!! Well it’s a fun sand bar island to dock your boat or camp and party on now!
That’s what is always was 😂
...and it remains free to use. 😆 the price is now reduced to .99 cents a square YARD, free sand included.
Would've been nice to see what it looked like before the storm!
I would have loved to see the before pictures. I wish he would have shown it
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There a drainage ditch near me by the lake that just went up for $60k , great views of the lake it says .
GOD SAID NOT TO BUILD YOUR HOUSE ON SAND. That is a prime example of people having more money than brains. 😎🎸
You refer no doubt to Matthew 7:24-26, but what about Jeremiah 5:22: “I made the sand a boundary for the sea, an everlasting barrier it cannot cross. The waves may roll, but they cannot prevail; they may roar, but they cannot cross it.” In other words, damned if you do and damned if you don’t.
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Actually, that scripture is dealing with the rebellious disobedience of man compared to the obedience of the sea. So no, your analogy is not correct. 😎🎸
Man. That was my planned refuge when the zombie apocalypse happened. Camp out there with a boat. Head in for supplies when needed. If zombies saw the fire, they may walk out into the river and washed out to the gulf. So sad. I guess, I;ll have to use my backup, Rayma C. Page.
During this insane real estate joke over the past 2 years, they've tried with some success actually, to talk up similar properties here on the NC coast. They throw out all sorts of "great"! Ideas you could use it for! There's a lot of $$ out there just to throw in a blender or in the ocean apparently. Your coverage is great and sad. Thanks
What about island re expansion? could something like a stepped heavy concrete block foundation around the Island make it even more bigger and prevent it from being destroyed in the future? I always thought they should do that with oak island and drain all the water out of it that way.
TIME FOR A RESET
@@harryballsacky
TIME TO GAS THE BIKES
Federal laws on protecting wetlands will keep that idea in realm of fantasy forever.
NC has a lot of unscrupulous people. Capitalists.... Life doesn't matter to them.
When I was a kid we used to camp out there when it was Loften's island or fire Island. It hasn't been the same since 😔
Looks like trouble in paradise.🏝🏝🏝
yep, we're I live in montana. we have paradise valley, getting ruined by out of staters building million plus dollar homes and summer homes.
@@anitakristensen4679 Really? I also live in Montana but way out. I'm thinking some parts of the West should stay wild. ☺️ Ofcourse, if Ryan Zinke gets his hands on any part of Montana, he will grab it and break it. Hope you are having a lovely day? The weather is absolutely perfect in the Root.
@@Diana1000Smiles I am thinking all parts of undeveloped, should stay that way. Like I say, our BIG SKY is getting cluttered. I did see a video of about a 2 generation ranch in three forks. The dad ended up needing surgeries and it cost big bucks. So they sold a section of the ranch to developers. So what to do.
The before pics of "Little Shell Island" can be found in a search.
Just googled it. Interesting - it’s size before and after Ian. Thanks
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Nothing should ever be built there!
same thing as New Orleans
Thanks, Bob! What would we ever do without your sage advice?
would have been interesting to post a before and after?
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I think it still has potential..🌪️🌪️🌪️
We should make it a retirement home for Joe Biden!!!
How would you ever get insurance for something like that?
That isn't an island, that is a damn sandbar!
I can’t feel bad about this
Why would anyone feel bad about it? There was nothing there.
Me, either. I'm hoping never to see all of Florida in the same condition.
@@libertywatcher1247 it's not because nothing was there. Private Islands kind of have a reputation for bad things. Nothing good comes out of these so 1 washed away is 1 less evil in this world.
Boatloads of interesting comments, here. Many thanks for the Entertainment. 💙 Be safe.
Hysterical. I would think just any random high tide would have taking that place out.
Yup. Absolutely Goddamn fucking hilarious.
Nope, not normal high tide, or normal storm. But a massive category 4 or 5 hurricane decimated the place just like it decimated Fort Myers Beach, Sanibel Island, Captiva, Cape Coral, parts of Naples too. Hurricane Ian affected the river systems all through Central Florida.
@@lauderdalien6987 so quit talking stupid Mr Lauderdale. I am a Metro Fort Lauder-dalien too. Sooner or later we're going to get it just like Fort Myers did.
Slava tebe BOZSHE ☦️🇷🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦📿🙏 Amin.
Chris S this storm, undoubtedly is taken out hundreds of people maybe more in Arcadia Florida, because of the rising of the Peace River. I drove through there after Hurricane Wilma in 2006 I believe. The people were in such misery I can't even put it in the words. A lot of them their trailers that they lived in we're flooded, all they had was the clothes on their back, it was desperation I bought a few people cold beer. Because it was still hot and stinking, at least for a little while they could stop thinking about their problems. I bought him a bunch of ice cold water too.
Slava tebe BOZSHE ☦️🇷🇺🙏 Amin.
Ain't nothing like a Cold Budweiser on a hot day in Florida. 🍺🍺🍺🇺🇸😎
Make no mistake, you take all the areas affected by Hurricane Ian, the body kind of end up being 3,000 or 4,000. Almost all the rivers in Central Florida were flooded. People probably were drowned in their sleep.
May God have mercy on their souls, Amen.
An excellent book on this subject:
The Geography Of Risk: Epic Storms, Rising Seas, And The Cost Of America’s Coasts
By Gilbert Gaul
@Tim Downey - Surviving Andrew in south Florida made a whole lot more impact than any book could have. I now live 6 hours from the coast.
No one should be thinking of such measures.
Like building houses on the edge of cliffs in southern California, and then people are surprised when erosion happens...
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How do you get permits to build there? Unbelievable.
I remember walking on that island!
I took a crap on that island
It was Turd Island
@@Raw-guitar respect
@@Raw-guitar so that was your turd that floated by!
How did it ever become for sale in the first place?
Greedy, greedy realtors and greedy greedy fools with too much money.
Oh yeah, and capitalism.
There is a sucker born every minute.
As P. T. Barnum said, "There's a sucker born every minute" and Thomas Tusser said, “a fool and his money are soon parted”
I grew up near the Thousand Islands region in Upstate NY. I remember back in the 80s there were "islands" there which were no bigger than a tractor tire. Just a couple of rocks and a tree, and they were sold for hundreds of thousands to people who just wanted to be able to say they owned an island. I have no doubt someone will still buy this island for 1 million.
It's so disheartening to hear that so many stupid people exist in this world.... and most of them have the money.
@@theresedavis2526 Well as far as I can tell this place has been for sale for at least 8 years, so evidently there aren't THAT many stupid people out there.
Play stupid games and win stupid prizes.
“You’re going to have to talk to a surveyor but “ .. 🤣
Would have been great to see a comparison shot in this video.
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@@JonathanPetramala It still only looks big enough to make a campsite for a night during good weather.
Man, been by that a thousand times. Was wondering
Well if you believe in climate change and rising sea levels, having a home on the beach is going to be a risky situation. All you have to do is look at those homes along Cape Hatteres NC. It doesn't take much of a storm to wash over the highway now.
I believe (clapping my hands) I believe.
@@danielnelson9411 Correct. Earthlings have zero chance at history.
People don’t know boundaries!
I feel for the people that really lost everything not insane real estate or those bankrolling off a sandbar.
this man just came up on the biggest insurance payout 😂😂
Perfect idea not to show a before to compare to the after so we could see how badly it got wiped out. It's trashed, but how big was it before? It's impossible to tell what half an acre looks like from a drone.
Thanks for the BEFORE PHOTO.
It seems like the only part of the sand bar that survived had vegetation, which would need to be removed to build.
Mangroves would thrive there but they probably cut them all off
As a man that lives adrift on the open ocean in a Giant Peach, I find this concept absolutely absurd. WHY NOT just invest in a Giant Peach?
Can't wait to see how much the federal government spends of taxpayers money to rebuild Sanibel Island, and I mean just the island itself
Not as much as we have sent to Ukraine.
@@ralphdeshon9710 exactly!!
@@ralphdeshon9710 Ukrainian President called Biden yesterday, I'm like so how much did he ask for now? Another $30 billion?
Those people have paid more in taxes and insurance in their lives than a thousand of you will ever see.
I don’t see how the Ukraine Democracy Defense Lend-Lease Act of 2022 which leases military equipment to Ukraine (which will eventually get repaid back to the US with interest) has any bearing on how much Federal assistance Florida receives for rebuilding. I do hope that any rebuilding (private or public) has much more robust building codes and thoughtful engineering.
Great video! Always expect that from you.
Maybe if they had conserved mangrove forests’ it wouldn’t of been this bad lmao 😂
I guess this is evidence of the old song the rains came down and the floods went up and the house on the sand when thump.
Even before Ian, this pile of sand was unlivable!
Great to see mother nature is setting things right in this world !!!!!!
i like to see what the island looked like before the hurricane destroyed it
Lots of images on google...
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🤣🤣🤣 really don’t feel sorry for these people….. if you can afford it, you can afford to lose it
Right, nobody feels bad for filthy rich idiots 💪🤣😂
Bingo!🎉
Careful...those words may bite you in the butt one day...
That’s not an island, that’s a sandbar
Good luck getting that insurance money...
I'm in ft myers someone just bought the island not too long ago they have been talking about building all type of stuff there including a hotel, I always said that was idiotic like of course it's gonna flood sure enough not even a year passed and Ian hits, good thing they haven't started building yet.
that's why you don't build in hurricane zone area
I guess that California should move because of earthquakes and let's not forget the people that live in tornado prone areas. And let's move New Orleans considering it was built under sea level.
The State of Florida is a Hurricane Zone area.
@@henryhawkins1194 and Henry again…..
I had to check out the Google satellite images, wow what a difference. Looked like there used to be a little shack or gazebo on the island that's now gone too.
Looks good to fish around though
is not, there are way too many ospreys around the area
The fact that someone thinks the own an island that small in the middle of no where is simply mind boggling!
Across the street from where I lived on the bay there was a narrow, pie shaped sliver of land that belonged to the county. It's long side bordered the bay and it's other long side fronted the dead end road. There was enough room there to park a large boat trailer and that's all. Suddenly the land was up for sale and sold for one million dollars in a matter of days. Pretty soon crews were there putting in pilings and erecting a retaining wall. I moved away from there about then, but when I saw pictures of it a year later it was a six floor apartment building! Those had to be the smallest waterfront apartments on the Gulf coast. They had to be studio apartments and I bet they rented for a lot of money too!
i wonder if its still there after H Ian
Selling a private island is definitely the most important thing for Floridas economy.
Hold your breath that's three minutes less than the amount of sleep I lost due to this island being washed away.
It looks like a good fishing spot.
Maybe have a picnic or barbecue those viscious fishes
Such Islands you got to carry a water source with you. If you get stuck on such an island you can't swim out, you very well may die of thirst
The God be Glory ALONE, PEOPLE, God is very pissed off with the people of the United States of America. Now he's wiping cities off the map, without there even being a nuclear war.
Make no mistake, God is pissed, more and more cities are going to disappear one way or the other, if people don't turn back to the Old Faith, loving God with all their heart all their mind and all their soul, and loving their neighbors is themselves, treating other human beings as they would like to be treated.
Oh Holy Mother of God pray for us, it is beginning to seem like we are all DOOMED.
God forbid, Amen.
Viscous fishes?
@@Diana1000Smiles oh yeah, they are my favorite.❤🍀✌
@@Diana1000Smiles Sharks, Barracudas, and Giant Groupers
Go fishing eat fish be happy people, happy people happy people, happy people, drink 🍻 be even happier people. The state of Florida's official alcoholic drink is Rum and Coca-Cola,
Glory be to God.
P.S. the state of Florida's most popular beer which is not a alcoholic drink in my mind.
Ice Cold Traditional Budweiser Red. Floridians universally love Budweiser Red, Ice Cold;
Rum and Coca-Cola, Ice Cold. God Himself had to have made these drinks, the only way to suffer the Hurricane 💙 Blues.
Floridians say AA is for QUITTER'S.
WE CELEBRATE LIFE, AMEN.
not good for fishing, pain in the ass for anchoring and the whole place smells like bird poop 24/7
The best it can be used for is wild/sea life or people can dock their boats and use the land as a natural nature rest stop, to relax, campfire go snorkeling etc. But after the damage caused by Ian no one should be building anything on that island, it's too much of a liability.
Unfortunately in the US here we have made a precedent of building in uninhabitable areas, having those buildings inevitably ruined, and having the Federal Gov bail out the irresponsible builders/owners with the general tax funds. It's sad but true. Me, you, and our children will be bailing out whoever builds on this. "I guarantee it."
Don't be the last person holding a deed in the FL real estate market. The next few decades are going to be rough down there.
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Sooo… this sad vid led me to John Anderson’s song
Seminole Wind. I will now listen to it and be sad with him.😢😢😢I’m Salvadoran…and yet…I m one with John . At least when it comes to this. ❤❤❤
Boo hoo.
As a native Floridian, this is just a glorified sand bar. Can’t blame any agents for trying to sell it to some uninformed snow birds.
Not bad at all, you can pick up a 3 seat bar at IKEA for around $250. Maybe toss a small charcoal grill behind it. You just have to charge around $500,000 a beer to make any money…..
Yo that is crazy. What if someone did buy this Island last year. They would be so mad today
☺️ good point
A pretty good discount on what? ….water and shrubs!? Dude I applaud your optimism.
I would love to live there and return it's beauty, use the debris to build a base for the barrier islands
This makes me happy
That's good. Happiness is my choice every day.
HUT READY!
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I always wish I could see the before and then the after in a lot of these videos. I know sometimes it’s impossible to do but it would be nice if we could catch a glimpse of life before and after on some of these. Or even pictures of what it was before.
People losing homes due to Ian: “omg them poor people…”
Millionaire loses home due to Ian: 😂😂😂😂🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉😂😂😂😂😂❤❤❤❤
So much potential ! Dream island for sale . Possibilities , unlimited .
For the same reason I would not buy a parcel of land along the rim of a volcano, I would never buy or live anywhere near this place either...ever.
The Lord giveth....and the Lord taketh away. Enjoy your blessings while you have them. Life is every changing.
Just imagine that person looking for ideas to get the water off his/her island 😂😂😂 good luck finding it
Doesn't ANYONE under the age of 50 know the difference between 'decimated' and 'annihilated' ? Jeez...
Damn, forgot about those hurricanes!
Seemed like a good deal at the cool real estate party at the time.
This is brilliant, actually. Sell a shifting sand bar for a million dollars. The following year, sell a new shifting sand bar located somewhere else to exactly the same people for a million dollars.
A sign of things to come with the real estate market.
I’m voting for Charlie Crist 💪🤠
When I was a kid there was a restaurant there you could buy sandwiches sodas bait hooks sit down and have a beer it was really nice it was Shell Island
Money doesn’t protect against the elements. Something rich people cannot comprehend
Cool video I seen the island and I almost have to laugh but everything has changed since Ian
Can't believe they didn't show clip on how it used to look before it sank 🤦🏼♂️
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