Boat Damage News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Here in a neighborhood, a blink and a nod. this is mile marker 97. that's how they gauge distance in this part of the keys here and just about every home we've seen sustained some damage. the mobile homes, obviously, more than others and the post-andrew heavy stone construction seemed to have survived pretty unscathed, at least down here, but we're dying to get down south to the lower keys, but the florida department of transportation has to inspect all of the bridges before they're going to open up u.s. 1 and since there are 43 islanda, you can imagine what a huge job that is and the people a...

Department, we saw some ambulances going on and on. i don't know if you can see this damage in front of me here, but the stone houses that i can say, this is a pretty general statement but the post andrew strong structures on stilts i think those homeowners are going to be pretty relieved. there's a lot of cleanup. there's a lot of downed trees. a lot of firewood, unfortunately. not that you need it down here in the tropics, but, you know, mostly looks like boat damage, stuff that was just loose left around. can i get by him? got a little room on that side. let's see what we can look at over h...

Mass from sailboats. while you're talking, we're looking at a street scene in miami that would be unimaginable on a normal business weekday. >> absolutely. we have already seen some of that. we were passing by this marina, and you could see where the boats came loose and it started to slam fences. we spoke to a man who spent an entire half a day trying to secure his boat with 16 lines. he had three anchors in the water, and it was tied to posts, and he tried to keep it center. he said some of the lines are coming loose even though they had shock absorbers just from the tossling of the wind and...

But we're checking in with the contacts we have made over the last couple days around. we're hearing from people on the atlantic side the key largo, who are riding it out. they are losing tiki huts, seeing sheets of plywood blow ahn. no major boat damage. the if you remember from andrew, the boats were stacked by corkwood, no with you has seen that yesterday, but the big concern is what they big winds will do to the infrastructure in this par of the keys. the ocean railroad they build back in the '30s was taken out by -- they do have a desalination plant add power generation station that could...

Earthquakes that have happened in japan and in chile and then there was some boat damage and obviously some waves and local damage but nothing too expensive, high emergency, i guess, as most locals would consider it. so we saw a lot of people walking around and i'm seeing a guy right now walking down the street. interesting. but they've all cleared out but they were kind of like, no worries, as far as they were concerned. i think it's are more the tourists and those on the beach front areas, you know, not knowing what to expect. they're probably feeling more apprehension at this point. >> you ...