Devastated the beach of Mexico will return, but different: mayor
Devastated the beach of Mexico will return, but different: mayor
MEXICO BEACH, Fla. (Reuters) - Mexico Beach, the seaside resort city of Florida shattered by Hurricane Michael, will be rebuilt "100 percent," the mayor said on Friday.
But the community, lacking hikes in condominiums and hotel chains, is forced to build differently to limit future damages, Mayor Al Cathey said.
"We're going to lose part of the uniqueness we had, in the old country-style houses," he told Reuters as he watched the damage to his truck. "But we will be newer and better."
Almost entire blocks of small two-story houses were swept during the hurricane, presumably by storm surges that reached up to nine feet (2.7 meters). Some larger bungalows and multi-storey buildings survived.
Those who resisted the storm were probably built or raised after Florida renewed its building codes in 2001, Brock Long, administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, told CNN on Friday. Local and state officials must be proactive in approving the necessary regulations, he said.
"It's fine if you want to live on the coast or on top of a mountain that sees forest fires or whatever, but you have to build to a higher standard ... If we're going to rebuild, do it right," Long said. .
The immediate challenges for the residents of Mexico Beach who were picking up the remains of their homes were the lack of electricity, water and telephone service, and there were no nearby sources of food and gasoline.
"I do not know if we can rebuild or not, it depends on insurance," said Marcie Miller, a real estate agent in Georgia, who removes valuables from the shell of her house. "And now they're talking about changing the building code."
The insurance usually covers the cost of a home, but not the cost of rebuilding more stringent building codes.
A second residence owned by Marcie and her husband Pete, a farmer, a two-story duplex, was dumped in two large pieces a block from a double plot that the family has had since 1957.
Some residents who were getting nervous on Friday said they expected the place, nicknamed "the Forgotten Coast", not to change too much.
"It was the perfect beach city. Not all that commercialism, "said Dottie Sinclair, a 57-year-old nurse, adding that a Subway fast food restaurant was the only commercial chain.
"I do not think it's the same," said husband Danny Sinclair, 64, who is semi-retired. "People will pack and leave."
Mexico Beach is one of the many white sand beaches along the Florida Panhandle, but unlike communities like Panama City Beach, it does not have large-scale resorts run by large chains.
While it will be different, the mayor said he hopes to maintain the Mexico Beach law that prevents buildings from having more than four floors.
"If we do that, then the big guys will not be interested in us," Cathey said.
The mayor mounted the hurricane in his house, which was unharmed, but the hardware store he has was level.
A search and rescue operation led by FEMA had not found any deaths in Mexico Beach until Friday morning, authorities said. The residents who returned did not give up at home.
"I hope they rebuild it, it's a wonderful community," said Roger Wiggins, 66, a retired maintenance worker.
"It's only going to take years."
Report by Rod Nickel; Edited by Sandra Maler
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