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Old 09-03-2023, 07:04 AM
 
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Does this sound right? I have not heard of anything close to this much damage in Pasco County until this now....


”Entire homes were levelled by the torrential storm, with between 4,000 and 6,000 homes destroyed in Florida’s Pasco County alone, county administrator Mike Carballa said”

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-Carolina.html
Look at the source. Not reliable and often guilty of inflating and reporting inaccurate information . One thing I have learned in the last years is check the newspaper reporting and then check the source of their information that they quote'. Often they quote other companies they own as their source. All along the coast there was flooding but doubt the number being quoted in that one county. Just because a house gets some water inside it does not mean a house is destroyed.
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Old 09-03-2023, 07:37 AM
 
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”Officials with Pasco County Emergency Management had estimated for 6,000 homes to be damaged, but they say that number wound up being closer to 2,000.”

https://www.fox13news.com/news/pasco...son-gulf-coast

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”About 4,000 to 6,000 homes were damaged in Pasco County during Hurricane Idalia, according to Pasco County Administrator Mike Carballa. ”

https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/hur...694ffc63bac40b

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”According to Mike Carballa, the Pasco county administrator, an estimated 4,000 to 6,000 local homes sustained hurricane damage.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...ooding-florida
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Old 09-03-2023, 07:44 AM
 
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Seems to be all BS. There is just no damage like that here. Some homes got flooded and that was it. Once you go 80 miles north then stuff starts to go down hill.
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Old 09-03-2023, 07:50 AM
 
Location: The Bubble, Florida
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So - the first story in the Guardian, was not an actual quote. It was also missing a period at the end of the sentence. Sloppy reporting but you can't expect better from the Guardian anyway.

The Guardian claims that Carballa said (to whom, in what context, and what were his exact words?) that those homes were "destroyed" (according to the Guardian).

All the other media stories state the homes were damaged.

Damage does not equal destroyed. In fact, damage could simply be a single broken window, or a single broken roof tile from debris falling on it. I wouldn't doubt that 4000-6000 homes sustained damage of some sort or another, with 2000 homes sustaining enough damage to count as "noteworthy."
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