Daytona Beach Shores Condo Saved!
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- Three months after Hurricane Ian and nearly two months after Hurricane Nicole the imperiled buildings in Daytona Beach Shores are under repair. In this video, we show the latest remediation of the Grand Coquina Condominium building that suffered a collapsed seawall and compromised foundation. I offer a voiceover and answer some questions.
Drone operator did a good job. I'm happy to hear your condo building is being repaired.
Thank you. My rookie drone operator said the same.
Very nice video. Glad your building has been fortified. Beautiful beach
Us too!
Excellent video and nice job with the voice over. It’s helpful to see the progress in the area. I appreciate your post.
Glad it was helpful!
My parents used to stay at the Pirate’s Cove in the 1980s and 90s. It was a nice place back then, and the beach was a lot longer.
I appreciate your video coverage of the area and am happy for you that your building was saved. It seemed one of the most damaged other than the single dwellings further south that did fall onto the beach. I have to admit to a sad twinge every time I see that vacant lot - it used to be The Talisman Lodge and my teen vacations were spent there. Nothing like returning to snowy Montreal with a tan from Daytona Spring Break!!
Much appreciated. Come back and visit!
Yes, Daytona never really fully recovered from 2004 when they were hit with THREE hurricanes! All those vacant lots you see used to have small "mom & pop" motels on them. Never rebuilt. Insurance companies hold the keys to Florida. No insurance...no chance against Mother Nature.
Very glad for this video and commentary. We stayed at a unit in this condo two years ago and was planning to again before the area got the one two hurricane punch. Very sad. This was my favorite building, and I was giving serious thought to buying one of the units. After seeing this, I'm optimistic that we'll be coming back to visit it again someday soon and enjoy this area.
Glad your board is fixing it. Keep the videos coming. Sad the other buildings look like they have not even started work.
Will do
Merry Christmas 🎄🎄Glad you all's building was saved 🎄🎄
Happy holidays!...and thank you :)
Very happy for you and the other owners/residents. David and Tony are great people and work very hard. Thank The Lord.
Thank you!
My family and I used to stay at the Spindrift Motel which was where your building stands now. We stayed in one of the front two cottages for many years until my grandfather died in 1983. I was shocked when we went to Daytona again in 2010 and saw your huge condo in place of the Spindrift at 3333 S. Atlantic Ave. I’m glad to hear that your building can be repaired. Good luck with everything you need to accomplish!❤
thank you :)
That's some good footage. I haven't been down that way since before leaving to visit family out of state for the holidays. I'm in Oceans Ten and feel very fortunate we had no significant damage. It's my only home.
Thank you for the update we live in Michigan we love it down there we have family there and we were devastated to hear the news glad to hear it’s getting better we desperately miss King wings from the oyster pub and we love the ocean deck 😂
So sad. Come back and help us restore the tourism economy!
Thank You for the update. Had a TS there 6th fl wraparound Balcony 30 years ago .Hope IT and you make it..ALOHA
Thanks, you too!
I appreciate you positing this video. I live a bit north of you in Oceans Eight. There is very limited access to get on to the beach to survey the situation making drone videos my eyes for the time being. Our building's seawall held very nicely yet our concrete steps to the beach cracked and are off limits until repaired or replaced which should occur in January. I've walked a mile north and south of my place and have not found an open access yet.
The public access just north of my condo is open I believe, but not for vehicle traffic. There's no beach! All of my fave spots to slip down with my bike are gone, so I'll advise what's open on Sunday when I visit.
I'm so glad your building is doing good , I was so worried that it fall
Thank you!
A couple days past but what a nice Christmas present being able to go home. Merry Christmas everyone.
Same to you!
Glad your building was saved and you can get people back in wish I could afford to live there very nice
Thank god your safe and your home is is doing good!!! Would it be possible to show the boardwalk to Wyndham Oceanwalk ????? Thanks
Truth be told, I asked the kids to shoot in that direction, but they get distracted easily. I'm going up next week and will definitely try to get it. Do you know if there was damage?
Thank you FloroSeven. We are pulling for you with the battle of insurance. Please keep us informed?
I personally am in love with the Dolphin and enjoy visiting there via TS. The owners we've rented from are lifers there. I hope they pull through this.
Thanks for the comment. What's the story w/ the Dolphin right now?
@@Floroseven I got nothing. We rent from 2 deeded owners there and as far as I know, they've not been told anything. Plus.... The phone appears disconnected. Goes straight to a fast busy signal 😢
@@acg5075 Oh my....that's not good news. Sounds like a possible insolvency situation. I wasn't impressed with the lack of progress on many buildings, but I'm a fan of the Dolphin!
Your video affirms what I thought abt the area in that it flat and there is no elevation from beach. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it
Thanks for addressing those negative comments...an entire video needs to be done on this imo
You bet. If you don't have anything nice to say .... :) - Merry Christmas! BTW, who is your avatar? Lemmy?
@@Floroseven me
@@marklane870 oh nice! I see now / cool music and videos man...subbed! Let's kick some ass!
Thanks brother!
Thank you to the drone operator for the video! Since you asked- respectfully, Why so much comparison / bragging about who’s building is doing better? Negativity about drone operator? I don’t know if you realize how you sound to someone newly listening but I suspect it’s why you get negative comments.
I've commented below also, but thought anyone willing to watch might learn what beach renourishment does and how sea walls actually create and speed up the erosion process. What Daytona and other Florida beaches need is a massive beach renourishment project. I've seen this devastation coming for years. Fun fact, Daytona has never done a beach renourishment project because of a sand snail study done years ago. Over the years the sand has been eroding little by little leaving it extremely vulnerable to storms. Just look at pictures or videos of Daytona beach right before the storms. There was very little beach and hardly any sand dunes for protection. Same further up in flagler beach and fort myers. Billions in tourism money and completely neglected the beaches. Now you have to pay out of pocket for something that will not fix the problem and will end up in a similar state as current once the sea walls are breached. New Jersey and the obx of North Carolina are the only 2 states actually going about it right. Building massive beaches far out into the water at higher elevation s and putting in massive dunes and rows of them. Currently in SW Florida the new plan is one 4ft high dune where there just had a 18ft storm surge. How ya think that's going to work for em? Smh
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wow, thanks for that video...I learned a lot.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year as well! Thank you for the video, we have a condo in Ocean's Three. In comparison to other shore communities, Daytona Beach Shores is almost reasonable and as you mentioned, a lot of the occupants are retired and have only the 2 bedroom condo and no other home. They have chosen to live the beach and understand the potential for major storms and hurricanes. The engineers are in and out of the condos on the beach and ours and others in the Oceans have been deemed safe and have really sturdy sea walls. We lost the bottom part of the staircases and some damage to the air conditioners. Those were repaired ASAP. The other repairs will apparently come when we can get contractors who will get to our work after they complete work on the condo buildings that were warned they were in danger of collapse. ( we are in good shape)That is fine and BTW, the collapse in Miami occurred for other reasons than hurricane damage...
If anyone can post video of the Oceans' , that would be great, we can not go over to our place as our condo is being re-done...
The Oceans should be visible in most of my drone videos. That said, I'll be making another one soon as well as the official state answer of the beach restoration...and its not good :(
very cool video and thank you for sharing it. can you make a drone video going north along the beach to Seven Seas Resort where we rent?
Yes I can
Great video what happened to the sea oats no video yet
Until the next storm...
What beach? Looks like they fortified the building foundation well.
I want to drive on the beach again! I bet it will be a while! Wonder if it will ever happen?
I just queried the state and got an official answer...and its not good. I'll be doing a video explaining all of this in the near future.
Your building is beautiful, but still worried for you! Salt and concrete doesn’t mix, it erodes the concrete! I hope the engineers can figure out something in addition! Glad you’ve been saved! As someone who has been hit by two hurricanes in 2004 and had to rebuild, it cost us a lot of money to restore! Pool, walkway, sand, and wall is all on the assoc. fees! Hope you have the best contractors too as vultures come to make a quick buck even if you vet them! Just our experience! It is a worry that they are doing it properly so this doesn’t happen again! I wonder why some sea walls held and others didn’t! Your condo looks fairly new so did anyone say why yours failed in the first place and the one next door was ok? Would love an explanation! Get with your county and town officials, Daytona beach needs the army engineers to dredge the ocean and restore the beach by feet! Until they do this you are still vulnerable to even the littlest storms! The waterline is too close to the walls and will only get undermined again! We aren’t allowed walls in Martin county! Best of luck, took us yrs. to rebuild!
Ours is a 1990 building. All of the newer seawalls held up and the older ones crumbled. Pretty much simple as that. I have a huge new video up today. Check it out!
Thank you for this. Please tell me if and when the beach will be back. I’m devastated to see that this iconic beach is essentially gone. How can it be repaired? Are there plans to repair it to its fullest glory? What is the time line?
The feds and state are working on the beach plan. Given the revenue this area brings w/ tourism, I suspect they'll have it done before Spring Break...crossing fingers!
The Dolphin is a timeshare with individual owners plus Bluegreen owns several units as well as managing the resort. I own 2 weeks there. As for your building, where are all the owners when I have been at the Dolphin at various times of year? Most night there are lights showing on only a few units.
Fair question. I believe half are full timers, mostly seniors. My sliders don't emit light (turtle glass if you will) which might explain why many don't emit light...or seniors go to bed early!
@@Floroseven makes sense. If I ever get back there, meaning if the Dolphin is saved, I shall look closer.
Oh yay , so happy
Thank you and Merry Christmas to you!
Unbelievable that place is destroyed they never should have built like they did in my opinion it's greed
Merry Christmas
How did White Surf survive?
which one? timestamp? a lot of this had to do w/ the age of the seawalls.
Well they might have saved it this time but you know it's going to happen again and again every time there's a major storm or hurricane. Not to mention the concrete is getting weaker and weaker overtime being exposed to that constant salt. I think if people really got to see these buildings from an inspector's point of view they would be completely shocked at how vulnerable their buildings are. People just don't understand what the salt does to the rebarb and the concrete and the structural support. Especially when a building is painted all nice and the damages hidden. Think of it like a chain a chain is only as strong as its weakest link.
May I ask how were the repairs funded , did the insurance company step up? Do you know if anyone in your building may be trying to sell ? Thanks for the video!
You can't sell easily when there are unknown costs (but I have a good idea what they will be). In another answer, i said that I was assessed $5k and $8k for building deductible plus I anticipate $10k for the new seawall. Price of living at the beach. Building saved, so I'm happy. Real estate going up still, so this will be a blip on the radar.
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About laplaya motel. Used to stay there is it ok,
address?
Good condition seawalls did great , after the 84 northeaster hit , alot of smart folks did their due diligence , since then most of the dead men rusted and seawalls now fell over with rusted rebar to boot , the oceans condos have weathered everything thrown at it , if another northeaster hits like in 84 , people will be wishing they were at the oceans resort club. If you don't have coqina boulders better think awhile.... they absorb water and basically can't be displaced being so heavy , also they absorb energy and are coarse and slow the spilling water flow coming in at eye dropping roaring speeds to a minimal . This damage is what's expected. If you really want to go back hurricane Donna actually eroded deeper in areas that weren't properly fortified .
thanks for the info! You did see the towers' wall was compromised, right? also, pools half empty, indicative of leaks/cracks.
@@Floroseven 👍yeah , I personally walked it several times from Wilbur to past the round condo next to old Hilton , amazing array of strategies and materials .
So, who's paying all the $$$$ for these extensive repairs? Insurance? Condo Associations? You said $20,000 out of pocket for a new sea wall. While that cost will be spread out over a few years, many owners may not be able to afford it. You need deep, deep pockets to live on the beach these days. We owned in Daytona for a while. After 10 years we thew in the towel and sold. We could see the handwriting on the wall.
Since you asked. We had a healthy reserve fund, which got eaten immediately. Then 2 assessments ($8k and $5k). The seawall will be paid for with a likely large assessment early this year.
@@Floroseven I suspect Daytona lawyers are going to have a field day filing liens against condo owners unwilling or unable to pay. Like I said, deep DEEP pockets need to live on the beach these days. Good luck.
@@m.f.m.67 These are homeowners...100+ units in my building and no such issue. Not sure about other properties.
Daytona has been going downhill for decades
We stayed at the dimucci twin towers back in 2019. I have Drone Footage of the beach and the buildings. I would love to make a side by side to show the difference
Anyone's about hawaiian inn
I'll have the boys video it next week.
I own a condo at the dolphin beach club!
Love that place!
the city of Daytona Beach shores are dragging there sorry asses about not rebuilding our seawalls guess they be waiting till hurricane season to finish us off
each building owns our own seawalls...at a great expense...
@@Floroseven didn't know that thanks for informing me
Stop building on the ocean PERIOD
The next hurricane will get it.
not with a seawall like we're going to have.
@@Floroseven sea walls create more erosion. What this entire coast needs is a massive beach renourishment project including massive dunes. Search Harvey Cedars in Jersey, they did it right.
Who owns Mirabella? Trump?
I wonder what the HOA Special Assesment fee was?
I think we're near $10k now, plus our HOA fee is higher, BUT we collectively decided on some nice upgrades to make the place the nicest in the area. Watch for my next video and I'll comment about the improvements.