- April 23, 2024
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At least 200 homes in Flagler County have sustained minor flood and wind damage from Hurricane Ian, while at least seven have sustained major damage, Flagler County's Emergency Management director said on Monday.
Emergency Management Director Jonathan Lord gave county commissioners a report on the damage during an Oct. 3 Flagler County Commission meeting.
Lord said that those 200-some houses, plus the seven with major damage, were found in the areas that county crews have already surveyed, and are not a full accounting of the damage.
"After the storm passed," Lord said, "a team from the Property Appraiser's Office and the Building Department, they went out, hit the ground running, hit the areas that we knew had the worst damage and started cataloging that damage for us."
Lord said that the team is working on a report about the storm, and hopes to finish it soon. He said some areas in Flagler County definitely saw the predicted 15 inches of rain, but it was unconfirmed if anywhere in Flagler saw the high-end, 20 inches prediction.
Flagler County Attorney Al Hadeed told the board the county is using a new app to calculate how much sand was lost to erosion because of the storm, using before-and-after drone imagery of the coastline.
Hadeed also said there is a supplemental appropriations in the works to have the Army Corps of Engineers study the damage Hurricane Ian caused to Florida beaches. He asked for and received the board's consensus to tell the state government that Flagler County wanted to be a part of this bill. He added that it might help to get speaker of the Florida House out to see the beaches.
State Rep. Paul Renner, a Palm Coast resident, is speaker-designate of the Florida House.
"I think it would be very helpful for us," Hadeed said, "if we could have the speaker of the Florida House come and actually view and see the incredible vulnerability of our beach which is evidenced by the escarpments."
