Cape Coral

“And so the place was always, you know, not only in harm's way, but with these canals to carry the storm throughout the city when it does come incredibly low-lying, incredibly wet just not the kind of place where you should put 200,000 humans.”

“You know, I don't think there will be a lot of soul searching about, you know, do we belong here? Does a place like Cape Coral, you know, should it be rebuilt? It's going to be rebuilt.”

“It's like a peninsula jutting off the peninsula, and Cape Coral literally had, like, no planning.”

“We built here, you know, we're not gonna tell 200,000 people to leave Cape Coral. We're not gonna tell ten million people to leave South Florida.”

“So these scammers came to Cape Coral, and they, you know, they found the swampland, and the only way they made it vaguely habitable was to build 400 miles of drainage ditches, the most of any city in the world.”

“The near Category V hurricane didn't create the fifteen-foot storm surges that could destroy the city, but the eleven-foot storm surge knocked out the water supply, electricity, and left most houses underwater.”