[MOforthewin]

Originally Posted by m1a1mg

St Joe is also planning a huge development similar to the Lakes. They open a good chunk of the developable land. The reason prices drift high is everything along 30A where all the big money is. Houses beach front can go for $10M+.

You'll consistently hear people talking about has none of this is sustainable, but they've been in a huge growth mode since 2013.

After it got hit by a cat 5 and wiped off the map literally? Are the same people, businesses building again or is it new investors, builders coming in and buying the vacant slabs left?


10 plus million? If I had that money one could just go move to Port Royal in Naples and have more stuff to do around them.


Down here you can get beach houses on Manasota Key for much much cheaper than 10 plus million and the Gulf is warmer down here and warmer in the winter.

[beachmouse]

Originally Posted by MOforthewin

After it got hit by a cat 5 and wiped off the map literally? Are the same people, businesses building again or is it new investors, builders coming in and buying the vacant slabs left?
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Michael was a wee but mighty hurricane that destroyed the small Mexico Brach area of Bay County, caused huge damage to Panama City (Bay County) proper but once you got west of the Hathaway Bridge, there were barely palm fronds down in Panama City Beach and effectively zero damage in Walton County to the west of that.

[MOforthewin]

Originally Posted by beachmouse

Michael was a wee but mighty hurricane that destroyed the small Mexico Brach area of Bay County, caused huge damage to Panama City (Bay County) proper but once you got west of the Hathaway Bridge, there were barely palm fronds down in Panama City Beach and effectively zero damage in Walton County to the west of that.

Odd cause Panama City Beach still got wind gusts into the cat2 range. Michael was a compact storm. Imagine had it been the size of Katrinas wind field.


However, Michaels small size also shielded it from the drier continental air as well before landfall. It seems getting a storm stronger than a strong cat3 in the northern Gulf is hard due to the drier mainland air. Storms weaker than strong cat3 seem to do okay. It's when they reach cat4 they seem to have troubles in the northern gulf maintaining intensity.

[1insider]

Originally Posted by slduvall

Ouch! I grew up here and in the 60's we would rent a cinderblock house on the beach in Blue Mountain Beach for a month. It was sooooo far away! Friends would rent the house next store. In the early 70's the owners reached out to my dad, as we were consistent renters, to see if we wanted to buy the houses...for $12000 each. Dad said no, as we were buying a sailboat. That sailboat is long gone, but that land is still there!

I've got good memories of Santa Rosa Beach. There was no mail delivery then. Had to go to the post office to pick up my mail. My address was just; My Name, Santa Rosa Beach. I used to get on my dirt bike and hit the beach at Stalworth Lake and ride the beach all the way to Sandestin. It was pristine with no people at all in that four or five mile stretch. Lots of wildlife.

[beachmouse]

Greater Pensacola (and Mobile, AL) have more hurricane surge issues than you’d think for the elevation because somewhat triangular bays lead to funneling where the respective rivers meet the start of the bay. Look at Hurricane Ivan photos where storm surge in Pensacola Bay left the Gulf Breeze-Pensacola bridge relatively untouched but the higher and more inliand I-10 bridge was demolished.

The Destin area doesn’t have the same issue because Choctaw Bay is a long rectangle instead of a triangle.