Hurricane Reality For Beginners

And A Wake Up Call For St. Simons Island


I was doing a little snooping around on the Glynn County web site this morning, and I tripped over these two images.

Here, take a look at the real estate tax map of the south end of our little island, with the lighthouse on the left (west) side of the photo.






















And here's the area just to the east...


Notice all of those purple and green lines outlining rectangles that appear floating out in the water?

Those little boxes represent 53 complete building lots that no longer exist because of the influence of Hurricane Dora in 1964.

Two roads, Beachview and Postell, were washed away in the process, and now there is no beach at high tide--just a line of giant granite rocks placed along the shoreline by President Johnson as a result of the damage.

With Hurricane season beginning in the next couple of days, I'm completely rethinking my own strategy when it comes to investing in real estate and selecting a place to live, because I think that it's just a matter of time until we have another catastrophic strike here in the Golden Isles.

We're way past due statistically, and it ain't going to be pretty here when the next one comes knocking on our doors and pounding on our roofs.

Wish us luck.