It’s been over two months since Hurricane Ian devastated Fort Myers Beach. There are still huge piles of trash on the sides of the road leading to Fort Myers Beach, on Main Street and on the island of Fort Myers Beach. I know it’s a long hard road to recovery, but many feel there aren’t very many trucks working to fix this issue.
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the people there should have been burning the wood and paper stuff, this would greatly cut down on the landfill. thats what i would have been doing.
Here is how to get rid of all the concrete, it starts at the 13.20 mark >>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yj0E0V3eZBE&ab_channel=letsdig18
Desantis does not keep his word. hes sitting in his comphy chair dreaming of his ego being fulfilled. Ian people take your coast back!!!
the comment where the piles of debris "where people's possesion and dreams are". So what part of living on a coast line where hurricanes are possile multiple times every year is not understood. I am sure deep down, most people understand this risk and have bail out plans to get valuable out in time. Yes, I know the Hurricane changed course but risk assesment should account for the unexpected. I am sorry for thoes enduring incredible hardship who don't have the resources to have a plan B or C in the wake of a hurricane.
no simple fix for a tradgedy so big,,,remember san fran 1906 whole city gone
I can't imagine the debris that washed into the ocean. Stop building on sand.
Piles of toxic poisons leaching into the environment more and more each day!
If you're not part of the answer you're part of the problem
I think a lot of people do not understand the magnitude of this storm. The water came in from zero to 15-25 ft in 7 minutes. One guy we knew that ignored our warnings stayed and said he felt water on his feet in the living room and he grabbed his cell phone and he didn't even have time to get his shoes on. He ran out the door and headed to the upstairs apartment and within 7 min his roof was submerged. This was not "normal". It was like a tsunami that came in from each end of the island and attached to the island and then just started pushing water into the center of the island. 250 mph wind gusts for 8 hrs. Now how is that normal? Meanwhile they are still calling this a cat 4. Sure it was. smh I have heard people say "clear the houses and plant mangroves"…..if the water was powerful enough to move 4 story concrete condo buildings and demolish them, how is a little mangroves going to stop a 25 ft wall of water that parks and stays in one area for 8 hrs then just as if someone pulls the plug on the bathtub, it was drained in minutes. Everyone not bolted down was sucked back out. Anyone that thinks this was a natural event must be lacking gray matter.
Future stricter building codes and regulations might help avoid some heartbreaks .
Maybe not allow buildings along coastal, river and lake shorelines and have green belts as buffer zones and parks that could be protected and enjoyed by everyone instead of the few .
Is there any type of plan to eventually remove all of this trash yet or no?
It all goes to the landfill, therefore taking off 2-3 years off the landfill life that's left, I'm a Sandy survivor this hurts me watching this. There is nothing to recycle except metal.
They should burn all the garbage. Save on waiting and hauling. Less for the dumps. Prayers for you all. God Bless you all.
Ft Myers is literally a dump so nothing has changed.
I almost forgot whatever dust you got left over from it dirt or whatever you can mix it with other materials to make some kind of mulch and use it for landfills where you need most that will take care of the excess dirt and whatever you get with it it does work just a thought but I'm giving what I can for anything I can do to help you
You know guys if you really want to know something about this pile that you know after that every hurricane you guys get is to recycle it have somebody go there and do a part of time and recycle all the glass plastic wood metal of all types and pilot where you can send it to a place where they will recycle it remelt it and reshape it and make parts out of it it's a lot of work but it's well worth it I do it at home myself but you know pause aluminum brass copper steel I work my tail in to do that but the deal is you guys can do the same and just sat the eliminate what you got in that pile of garbage and you'll know what can be broken up and grinding too that's the best thing I can give you cuz it can be recycled
We had the same issue after hurricane ike here in texas and they piled it all up in one area and then they brought in big tub grinders and ground it up and hauled it all away to landfills in big semi trucks so it dont take up so much space
They should recycle most of the medal, steel, aluminum wood. Than use the money to distribute to the ones who had no insurance to repair or rebuild
Drive off the south side of the island towards Lover’s Key if you want to see real debris piles…this is not much.
Complicated. The removal of the debris is probably coordinate by FEMA. And the federal government doesn’t move quickly. 2 problems I see, trucks and equipment, and where do they put the trash.
I Played softball the past 3 and half years at this excellent recreational field. Unimaginable it would be turned into a trash debris dump this season. Sad situation all the way around.
It would have been nice if you would have included comments about all the hard work going on. These piles are being removed and replaced and removed again on a regular basis. Clean up trucks are working everywhere. Not just FMB. A huge area was destroyed yet folks only focus on FMB what about my house that was a total loss or the people in Iona who lost everything or the people who were living on their boats. Oh that’s right, it’s not the beach so we don’t matter.
Better get this cleaned up and fast!! The next storm will be here before you know it. My goodness can you imagine if the storm surge were to take all this into water. Hurry hurry Lee County! There isn’t a moment to spare.
Grind it up
Why do the piles look so grey, along side the roads everything is very colorful piles of debris, just a observation, only thing I can think of is concrete dust, but most concrete foundations are still in place from destroyed business's and homes. Maybe busted up cement blocks?
Unless you've ever been through this you do not understand how it feels my heart goes out to the folks in Florida as they struggle through this terrible time much love from the Texas coast 💖🌹💖🌹💖
Sanibel island has large area where they are grinding up the mixed garbage twice and the wood debris separately. In the first 9 days they ground up more trash than in 8 months after Charles. It’s very interesting
Great job ty!
Understand, this is a once in a life time event. Your local government can only take away so much at a time and find a place for it. Its not just trash, its entire homes, boats, cars, sheds, you name it. Its kind of difficult to throw away an entire community and find a place to put it. Get used to this, its going to be 10-15 years, if you're lucky before this is fixed.
What a joke those grapple trucks are a huge waste of time .Not only are they slow as hell but once at the dump site they have to be unloaded the same way.Thats why its taking so long.They should be running payloaders with bucket grapples and semi dump trailers.Beleive me they would be much faster.Thats what we use up here in the northeast