(28 Sep 2024)
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Steinhatchee, Florida – 28 September 2024
1. Debris and fallen trees
2. Business building debris
3. SOUNDBITE (English) John Berg, Steinhatchee resident
“I was smart enough I left town because they said mandatory. And, I had water in my house, but I didn’t lose nothing. And I mean, of course, in my appliances and stuff inside is all. But other than that, and that’s stuff you can always replace, you know, it’s lives we can’t replace.”
4. Wide view of building with roof damage
5. Sliding doors and window damage
6. SOUNDBITE (English) John Berg, Steinhatchee resident
“Everybody’s pitching together in the community, and I don’t know. The good Lord. We don’t see the reason behind these disasters, you know, maybe bringing people together. And that’s because that’s surely what it does is bring people together.”
7. Storm debris next to water
8. Close up of broken door
9. SOUNDBITE (English) John Berg, Steinhatchee resident
“None has ever, none has ever like, wiped-out Roy’s, I mean it’s it’s where they had to rebuild inside before because it had four foot of water. But it’s never wiped the building out, you know it’s gone.”
10. Wide view of damaged building
11. SOUNDBITE (English) John Berg, Steinhatchee resident
“But we’re still blessed to be alive. Thank the Lord.”
12. Wide view of collapsed building
STORYLINE:
Residents of rural Taylor County in Florida’s Big Bend went years without taking a direct hit from a hurricane. But after three storms in a little over a year, the area is beginning to feel like a hurricane superhighway.
“It’s wiped out a lot. It’s bringing everybody to reality about what this is now with disasters,” said John Berg, 76, a resident of Steinhatchee, a small fishing town and weekend getaway.
The town of about 1,000 people an hour and a half southeast of Tallahassee sits at the mouth of the Steinhatchee River, flowing out into Deadman Bay and on into the Gulf. It’s a beloved slice of what locals call Old Florida, where generations of families have cherished memories of living along the river and scalloping in the bay.
A number of businesses in town had just reopened ahead of scallop season a few months ago, after sustaining damage from Hurricane Idalia in August 2023. Then a year later, Hurricane Debby washed ashore. Now, Helene came through like a buzzsaw, blowing apart what took decades to build, like a waterfront restaurant called Roy’s, where residents could watch the sun disappear over the salt marshes stretching into the horizon.
Now Roy’s, like many other buildings in town, is just a pile of debris.
“None has ever wiped out Roy’s,” Berg said. “It’s gone. And now to replace it, they have to go a minimum of probably 12, 15 feet in the air to rebuild it.”
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