"What happens in this situation is there's so much money coming down here that a developer will come in and say, 'hey, you know what, I'll give you 15 million for this acre of land or two acres of land, and we're going to build condos, or we're going to build houses here,' and that's gone," State Rep.
#THE SURGE 2 FORCE HOOK OFFLINE#
However, with so many fishermen offline and the money needed to rebuild, concerns about developers moving in are growing. If you want to know how many pounds that is, multiply the tons by 2,000, and you get more than 1.3 billion pounds of debris.Ĭommercial fishing is a significant part of the economy in Lee County. This amounts to 670,180 tons or 47,870 large dump trucks of debris.Īccording to Amelia Johnson, the Deputy Director of Communications & External Affairs for the Florida Division of Emergency Management, a total of 809,091 cubic yards of upland vegetation and construction debris have also been removed. To date, 478,700 cubic yards of waterway debris have been removed. The amount of debris they are catching is mind-blowing. Depending on the boat and how long they were gone, we would catch 5,000 to 20,000 pounds a trip." "We had about 10 independent owner-operators. And just see, everyone's life gets upended at one time," Streeter said. "It's raw it's a raw thing to see, to be in a disaster. Luckily, Streeter said none of his fishermen died. However, one captain was forced to abandon the ship as the surge sent the massive boat crashing onto land and into his store. Some of his team rode out the storm on their boats.
We lost the shrimp boat back there all the boats were damaged." You don't have a fishery, and that's what we lost in the storm. "So when you take these fisheries offline, fisheries stop. And, you know, unfortunately, in fisheries, we don't have a lot of working waterfronts," Streeter said. What was left behind was about two-and-a-half feet of mud, and his sole job since felt like an impossible task cleanup. Streeter showed us how high the water rose, nearly to the ceiling, seven to eight feet. We stood in the middle of his gutted fish house. "We lost all of our cooler capacity, freezer capacity, ice houses, ice machines, docks, I mean, literally wiped everything away," said Streeter. The storm temporarily sentenced his dedicated team of fishermen to lives of hard labor clearing canals, bays, backwaters, and mangroves of trash. His business, from top to bottom, is 100% offline. His new job isn't fishing for grouper it's reeling in trash.
James City during the storm and his fish house at Island Seafood Market in Matlacha. We went out with one of the most dedicated teams working to clear the waterways - commercial fishermen.Ĭasey Streeter lost his home in St.
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