🌴 Fort Myers Beach 2024 🌴 The New FMB After Hurricane Ian Is Here ❌🪳

[@BethWondrely]

I wish you all could've seen this beach and city back in the 1979s and 80s. It was beautiful. Palm trees as far as you could see, a really nice playground right on the beach, the old pier, and nothing was better than coming over the top of that bridge and seeing all the shrimp boats and that glorious red alpine looking A frame of the original Dairy Queen. No greedy investors or hotels to ruin the open ocean.

[@Alwaysbeclosing1774]

You could say that about tons of places. Over population greed and the phony America Dream

[@Cozydrone]

If they put a toll on fort Myers Beach,they will never see me or my money down there ever😝😁.

[@Cozydrone]

My dad brought our family down to fort Myers in 1977.my dad had the first ice cream truck in lee county back then .the county commissioners did not have any laws on the books back then .they did not know how to control him.eventually they had enough laws passed that it would take many years to produce those crazy laws,this country has gone to 💩 since 1977😡.

[@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS]

Thats exactly how the are, starve you out if your getting ahead

[@RobertBrown876]

​@@FLORIDAHOODVLOGSyes and FNk insurance companies......10k+ for a year wtf..... Sadly there's no place that is without there reach. Everything's up for sale. I just can't to accept that I will never own a home in the USA.... So which is why I started building a home somewhere else in an other country.......I wont say where because people will flock to it. But the weather is always 72 degrees and sunny. People are friendly and you can live on $300/ mo extremely comfortably.

[@Hillsidedojo]

Big Sugar's waste fertilizer is polluting Lake 'O' then flushed down the Calooosahatchee River into the Gulf.

[@MoMoMyPup10]

It's not just that but also all of the massive communities up north towards Orlando that is also flushed south to the lake, and there had been two releases from O not long before this video was taken. It'll clear up in a couple of months and then they'll release more down the river and the ick will return. This should be a national story it's that bad.

[@stevem-h5e]

I love FMB. Last year I brought my metal detector and was able to greatly expand my collection of roofing nails.

[@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS]

😅😅😅😅 and aluminum scraps too

[@Rednecksusan81]

​@@FLORIDAHOODVLOGSBack in the 90s a hurricane that was named no name because it came so fast the didn't have time to name it

[@kricard67]

If they charge a toll, they need some kind of free permit for local residents and employees.

[@StanleySzymaoski-w7i]

That’s sad it was so beautiful at one time

[@genenky]

people need to boycott that place. their gov. is getting out of hand. look at how sanibel island has quickly recovered

[@thomasmcnicholas8656]

Comparing apples to oranges

[@4tuneagent]

You didn't mention the Lana Kai when you cruised by it at 7:25 . I believe they had to rebuild the entire first floor. Another place you could have stopped by is the Parrot Key Caribbean Grill. Open and doing good business. 🍹

[@flylippfantom8425]

It's still messed up. I drive Uber and the roads are under construction still New Years 2025 is in a couple days. The construction is for miles all the way to Bonita Beach

[@ILoveOldTWC]

Went on Fort Myers Beach August 2023, and never had seen it so desolate. There seemed to be a shortage of workers to help clean things up, so rebuilding can start. It's not a quick process; it takes a long time. I'm glad to see some improvement, but like I said it''ll take a long time to fully recover. The locals I am sure would be against a toll going there. Let it be what it was before. Just stronger buildings built to withstand the wind and water.

[@304girlriggs7]

Fort Myers beach was beautiful and it will he again. The people of Ft Myers Beach are making tremendous strides from what devastation Ian left behind.. Jesus christ, man, you know it was completely wiped out, right? I think they're doing an amazing job, and I've been to Panama City a few times, and I'd choose Fort Myers over PC every dang day. It's easy for people to sit back and judge. I guess if you don't like it, you don't have to visit the area. As for me. I'll see all the amazing people in Nov.

[@thomasmcnicholas8656]

👍👍

[@mcamman6193]

I wouldn't spend $15 to go to a toxic and trash infested looking beach lmaooo. What a bunch of rich, entitled boomer snobs. Sarasota for the win. Much better beaches and free access. The state of Fort Myers Beach actually makes me really appreciate how beautiful our beaches are on the East Coast and how I sometimes take them for granted. I went to Sebastian Inlet recently it was one of the most beautiful places I went to in Florida. Water turns aqua there.

[@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS]

St Augustine too 🌴

[@mcamman6193]

@@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS YESSS. I love St Augustine. I haven't been there since 2011. I wanna go back. Hopefully soon. I'm planning on taking a trip to Lake Placid and then Fort Lauderdale and Sarasota again in August, but I'll see where I can fit it in my schedule.

[@x-raycat323]

No public showers anymore for rinsing off after a swim ??? That'll keep me off the beach and out of the water

[@MoMoMyPup10]

They were destroyed in the hurricane and most of the repair work is locked up in legislation

[@x-raycat323]

@@MoMoMyPup10 my point exactly

[@iujim1976]

The downturn began when FMB decided to become a city! The demand for power!!!

[@heathermayborg79]

Town square has showers, there last week

[@flylippfantom8425]

This is Florida and the rich get richer and the workers pay tolls

[@Art_V101]

Is the water quality on FMB crap due to the Caloosahatchee river emptying out right by FMB?I assume it's the same reason why over by Panama City the Apalacicola river empties out into Apalachicola bay and makes the water east of there junk but if you go just to the west from Mexico beach west its excellent.

[@jameswaters3939]

Florida is out on the edge like a tree limb. It's edgy and Floridians are aware, fast, and smart. I'm from the 305 and I've never experienced a 'faster-paced' city in everyday life than Miami-Dade. Longboat Key is a gem and St. Armand's circle also, fantastic. I have to compliment the architects, engineers, & labor, who work amazing miracles in Florida. On a sunny evening at Pier 66 or sailing to Elliot Key can be 'perfecto'. It has it's charms, Florida does.

[@stevem-h5e]

People here call Florida the "Stink on the Brink."

[@enzos711]

"The water quality" has been Bad for Many years, related to Lake "O" - Caloosahatchee Releases .. And people were Staying / Living in Lee County, Ft Myers / S. FT Myers / FMB Full time / Yr Round, way more in recent yrs (at least before Ian) & "there was" more of a "Summer Season" beginning to happen on FMB .. The days of "Completely Dead & Zero Traffic , begin after Easter were going away" .. I got wiped out & left, a few wks, after Ian & haven't been back ..

[@manueldominguez4009]

If they do that they should remove parking meters and add more beach front parking. But I still won’t spend $15 to come and go

[@Thewritingisonthewallforusall]

They won’t ad parking, this beach area is planned to be a 15 minute city

[@caneprints]

Why is this area taking so long to recover? I realize it was a bad hurricane, but Florida always has bad hurricanes and seems to miraculously recover and with amazing speed.

[@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS]

Bad leadership

[@FireflyHill24]

We had a home in Indian Creek park and had 6 feet of water in our mobile home from Ian. The fema 50/50 rule really hurts the rebuilding. Some of the structures that could have been rebuilt now have to be torn down because of the fema 50/50 rule. Post Covid everything is more expensive. It’s just going to take years to rebuild the area

[@realdeallocal1221]

@@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS You know not what you speak of. The damage was huge... Punta Gorda took a good five years to start to see improvements, Charley was small compared to Ian.

[@thomasmcnicholas8656]

@@FireflyHill2450/50 rule was put in play to get people to comply with new codes when building now after the hurricane

[@skipmontesjr]

A toll? Are they kidding.... No one would go there more than once... They implemented paid parking downtown FM and it cut visitors by a third and put a hardship on all the employees who work there... The city just relented and give free parking after 5 pm and on Sundays so at least they are realizing it was a bad idea...No one whats to spend money to go spend money..... If FM beach was smart they would do a deal with a couple of the businesses on the land side like the KW Express and build them a huge parking structure then run a free bus to a few key spots or even a boat that takes visitors to the island every half hour or so for a a small fee..... This would cut down on traffic for sure.....

[@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS]

Horrible decision

[@denisebierd5203]

Thank you so much for the current video! 👍❤️🏖️

[@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS]

😎

[@siblej1]

Amazing how FMB has rebuilt. Naples haven’t even rebuilt their pier yet.

[@realdeallocal1221]

FMB just got a pier plan that is not approved yet... smh./

[@danielrider7441]

FMB has also not rebuilt their pier. Your comment is silly. With exception of the pier you can barely even tell a hurricane hit Naples.

[@siblej1]

@@danielrider7441 Some of the side streets down to the beach (15th & 16th av.) hadn’t even been reopened, and that was 18 months after the hurricane

[@kenmcfarlane7534]

WE WERE THERE SAT JUNE 01 2024....WANTED TO STAY 2 OR 3 DAYS BUT PRICES WERE RIPOFF PRICES AND THEY WOULD NOT BUDGE.....I'VE BEEN COMING TO FT. MYERS BEACH SINCE I WAS 5 YEARS OLD......76 NOW.......WE DESPARTELY WANTED TO HELP THE LOCAL ECONOMY BUT NOT AT RIPOFF PRICES.....THANK YOU PINK SHELL AND A FEW OTHERS.! NOT COMING BACK AFTER ALL THESE YEARS.

[@blackpanter9572]

Sounds like a bunch of names your Grandpa would have slept with😂😂😂😂😂 love it❤

[@jeffmurphy1610]

We still all messed up down here , I’ll be looking for my truck in the video 😊

[@denisebierd5203]

I used to live on FMB back in 1997 when it was way more affordable! My old apartment that was build in 1960 ,made it through Hurricane 🌀 Ian.

[@georgemcgowanfl]

Reminds me of the Jersey shore a couple of years after Sandy. As for the water, is there red tide?

[@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS]

I don’t think there is anymore fish left to die at this point

[@josephdecarlo1262]

I drove through there on August 12th. It's still sad! It was dead except Margheritaville.

[@brendafreedom9813]

I will go down to Bonita Beach and drive up the island to not pay that $15 toll. Hopefully the Resort will help clean things up including the water.

[@bywaterbeatsproduction]

Sound like a tour guide 😳

[@ChildofGod3973]

They probably will give the workers on the beach a pass so they don't have to pay the tolls that would make more sense

[@thomasmcmahon400]

Unfortunately it just got hit again, sad.

[@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS]

Unreal

[@italiansister8069]

Love the video thanks for sharing Jose

[@Easydoesit101]

Florida has alway been home of the Newly wed and Nearly Dead…When I was a kid and I’m 72, Miami Beach was where the kids sent Mom and Dad to die, 1970;I was working for Westinghouse, making Appliances Deliveries and nothing but old people sitting in chairs with Saliva Dripping and hanging out of their mouths as their heads would hang with sleep… they were near Death till the Gays took over and saved Miami Beach….

[@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS]

🤣🤣🤣 not sure whats worse

[@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS]

Florida will be florida 😅🤷🏼

[@Christopher-jk9bj]

I just came across your video and was watching, and you were naming hurricanes. Then you said "Irma. Sounds like a bunch of women your grandpa would have slept with". My Gramps did. My grandmother's name was "Irma"😂😂

[@stevem-h5e]

It's still a long way to go for skin cancer and a Slurpy.

[@Majax2]

So sad, the beach area I grew up with is all gone. Greedy developers gonna destroy the mom/pops there too. These hurricanes are such a land grab for em.

[@stevem-h5e]

Paying money to sit in the sand is soooo "Old School."

[@Alwaysbeclosing1774]

Not many back this December. Recession inflation. Fort Myers Cape Coral is in the beginning stage of a major Housing price Correction. Let it rain. What happened to all the realtors? lol it’s different this time they said LOL

[@coastalartistlivingonislan8395]

Just in time for hurricane Debby. Watched other fmb video of flooding.

[@gabenicolas1615]

I was actually there in June and it got a little better after the hurricane. Cold Stone Creamery reopened i believe sometime in March of last year

[@cw5986]

Roach infested and had to go? As a local since 1968, I find your comments and description of FMB before Ian incorrect and insulting. Unlike many coastal towns, FMB still had locals who could afford to live there. Are the locals' homes, which are not colorful million-dollar homes, the roach-infested shacks you spoke of? Have you ever been to a house on FMB? FMB will soon be another Sanibel or Naples, where they have tolls and don't care if you visit. Is that what you want?

[@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS]

You hear what i said, cockroach huts that needed to go

[@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS]

I never met anyone on FMB that I would give a rats turd about their opinion

[@TangibleReads]

$15 toll wtf

[@crissrails7539]

great vid

[@stevem-h5e]

EEEOUUU! WHAT'S THAT SMELL?

[@FREEDOM195844]

It takes a long time to rebuild!

[@willbygosh4887]

We left for Homestead from Zephyrhills during IAN because it was first predicted to hit Pasco County.

[@EliasJose-jt3hd]

Linda cidade fort Myers

[@kd6281]

Storm surge went INLAND 9 miles !! Crazy. *Recent Lake O discharges after all that recent rain. NASTY TOXIC stuff in that water like vibrio (often) 🤢

[@heathermayborg79]

Water was clear and beautiful last week when I was there 😐

[@michaelgreen4838]

I kinda quit watching your videos if you're going to make them like this one .I'm coming back more now

[@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS]

I am not gonna cater to anyones feelings. I know what i need to create to get views and generate money

[@michaelgreen4838]

@@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS NO FEELINGS, HERE! JUST WAS COMPONENT ON THERE WAS NO DUMB SHT IN THIS VIDEO

[@ew374]

lol funny guy😅

[@SA-hz1rs]

Looks like crap

[@michaeljohnbeesley9561]

Iconic. I dont think so lol

[@dublinlaguardia458]

But over two story high

[@WabuhWabuh]

stop calling it a hurrican. you know dam well it's cloudseeding stimulated events..

[@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS]

Why your comment makes you look like a moron: storm surge just like this happened in the same exact spot about 100 years ago before airplanes.

[@WabuhWabuh]

@@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS yeah ok buddy...