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- Brevard County homes and businesses sustained an estimated $157 million in damage from Hurricane Irma, newly released figures show. Brevard County Emergency Management Director Kimberly Prosser said the figure is more than four times the damage total of $35 million from Hurricane Matthew in October 2016.
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Dave Berman. Florida Today. 0:00. 1:31. Brevard County homes and businesses sustained an estimated $157 million in damage from Hurricane Irma, newly released figures show. Brevard County...
Sep 9, 2022 · An incredibly strong storm, the damage brought by Irma contributed to the most expensive year of weather events ever, totaling over $300 billion across 16 events. As of July 2022, federal assistance to households and communities who sustained damage after Irma have totaled $5.58 billion .
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- Trees Down vs. Limbs Down
- Brown Trees
- Tap Water
- Flooding
- Beach Erosion
- Schools
- Gas Shortages
Every one of FP&L’s 307,000 customers in Brevard was without power for some period of time, compared with about 238,000 in Matthew. The impact statewide was more dramatic. Across Florida, some 4.4 million FP&L customers lost power because of Irma vs. just 1.2 million during Matthew. After Matthew, about half of those who lost power in Brevard had e...
While Matthew ripped thousands of limbs from trees around the county, Irma completely uprooted far more trees. The likely cause: The longer sustained winds, combined with heavy rains, which loosened soil. Most at risk were trees with large canopies, which can act like sails under heavy winds.
Within days, leaves on trees and shrubs around the county began to turn brown and wither, something that didn’t happen after Matthew. The likely cause was stress caused by sustained high winds, said Sally Scalera, horticulture agent with the Brevard County Extension Service. Those winds dried out the foliage to the point of death, she said. Scalera...
More than 82,000 Cocoa Utilities customers lost water service during Irma. Flooding made it tricky to spot some of the estimated 35 water main breaks, and regulations require boil water notices to stay in effect at least two days after running water is restored, to lower risks of bacteria in the water. By comparison, Hurricane Matthew caused 21 wat...
While Hurricane Matthew caused extensive flooding north of Brevard, that was not the case here. Irma however, which dropped as much as 15 inches of rain on the Space Coast in less than 48 hours, did cause extensive flooding in parts of the county, some of which remained under water for a week after Irma passed. That potentially contributed to the w...
The potential cost of restoring the Space Coast beaches affected by Irma is $10.8 million to $15.8 million. That compares with $26.8 million in beach damage during Hurricane Matthew. The difference is that the eye of Matthew was just east of the Space Coast shoreline as the storm moved north, and the damaging winds were coming into the coast. Irma’...
Brevard Public Schools were closed for seven days because of Irma vs. just three days for Matthew. The lack of power and water forced BPS to delay school re-openings after Irma passed.
With Irma first projected to make landfall near Miami, hundreds of thousands of residents of Florida’s East Coast headed north and west to places like Tampa. But when the track shifted west and took aim at the area between Naples and Tampa, all those evacuees –fled again. The mass movement of people, called the largest evacuation in U.S. history, l...
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Sep 9, 2022 · An incredibly strong storm, the damage brought by Irma contributed to the most expensive year of weather events ever, totaling over $300 billion across 16 events. As of July 2022, federal...
Sep 20, 2021 · Hurricane Irma, a Category 5 storm, made landfall in south Florida in September 2017. The storm caused considerable long-term damage to the region’s mangrove forests, which act as natural buffers against coastal flooding.
Sep 12, 2017 · The Greenville News. 0:05. 1:26. COLUMBIA -- Tropical storm Irma left two people dead in the state, a 57-year-old man killed by a falling tree limb in Calhoun Falls and a 21-year-old driver with ...
Sep 14, 2017 · Sep 14, 2017 3:00 AM. These new satellite images show the scale of Irma's destruction. As Hurricane Irma, the most powerful hurricane ever recorded, surged through the Caribbean and Florida,...
