Aftermath of Hurricane Ian - LZ Compound Update
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**Hurricane Ian Aftermath: A First-Hand Account of Floods, Struggles, and Resilience**
Last night, I closed my video in this exact spot. As you begin watching this, I want to reassure you that every single person here on the compound is safe. We were very lucky with Hurricane Ian. While a lot of people on the west coast of Florida dealt with insane life-threatening flooding, we made it out safely and are incredibly fortunate. Although we didn’t experience the crazy winds, the rain hit us hard. You can see Colette ready for what’s ahead in her little penguin rain boot outfit, and our trusty vehicle, "Trusty Seed," is here. However, due to some deep waters, it left us stranded three times, so we’ll be taking the side-by-side vehicle this time.
The house sits on pretty high ground, so the only real issue back here was a lot of downed debris. It’s going to be quite the cleanup process. The storms have technically passed us here, but we still have some trailing winds and a little bit of light rain to expect. I’m surprised more trees didn’t fall over since they don’t have much foundation with how they’re built into the bank. Knock on wood, our hurricane-rated pool screens are still intact, and they’re all in one piece.
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**Navigating Through Floodwaters: A Challenging Journey**
We’ll now head over to the main building where the brunt of the water is located. There’s some debris here, but nothing too crazy. To the left, there’s a new little pond that didn’t used to be there. Wow, I’ve never seen this area flood like this before—it looks like we got the "water receipts." This pond is pretty much level with the ground, but thankfully, if we look over by the building, the water never got high enough to get into the main shop.
We did find some leaks on the right side of the building from the roof, but we made the call late last night and got every single thing off the floor in the main building. The dyno was probably the biggest challenge since it was touching the ground, but the vehicles stayed on the ground. I figured if we were going to get enough water in there to ruin anything, it’d probably be boxes and stuff on the ground. Thankfully, we made the right call.
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**The Flood's Impact: A New Pond and Struggles Ahead**
I’ve never seen this pond get that wide before. You can see all around the back—this pond is pretty much level with the ground. This is where I messed up the bumper on the NSX. By the way, entries for a chance to win on the NSX fresh painted bumper are coming soon! Wow, yeah, that pond is crazy—I’m gonna point them out so they can see it’s literally level with the ground here.
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**Exploring the Flooded Areas: Deeper and More Challenging**
Head to the other side of the building now. Nothing too extraordinary back here—it’s just a decent amount of water. This is where it starts to get bad, coming back through here going through the starting line. You can see over here—the water from this pond that used to be an L shape has completely breached on all corners. Look at that tree—wow, I gotta show them I don’t even know how deep we can go with this.
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**The Struggles of Flooding and Cleanup**
We’re gonna grab the side-by-side, but now we might get soaked if we do that. Looks like we had our first big casualty—a large tree over here it appears to have downed the water. I would estimate it’s a few inches deep, but yeah, we’re not getting around that tree—that’s for sure.
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**Reflecting on the Aftermath: Floods and Resilience**
Wow, this is insane. You’re looking at what once used to be a grass field. Mind you, we’ve always known that this area is flood-prone—we are very close to sea level, and at a certain point, there’s just nowhere for the water to go. All the ponds that have overflowed were made with the intention of catching water, but there gets to a certain point when the ground just can’t hold it quick enough.
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**The Challenges of Flooding: Dealing with Water and Wildlife**
I’m proceeding with caution back here. You can see where the water changes color here to the left—that’s where the Nico drop was, and it probably gets up to like three or four feet there. I’m gonna try to follow the area that I know isn’t that deep because the engine on this K truck is pretty low.
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**The Emotional Toll: Gratitude in the Face of Adversity**
This building I know did just barely get a little bit of water in it, but nothing got damaged thankfully. Everything was raised—it’s just kind of like an auxiliary merchandise building where we do some of the fulfillment. So, this shop appears to have stayed fine from the rain—no rain in there; that’s good.
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**The Journey Ahead: Recovery and Reflection**
Oh no, my E46—you guys don’t really know about it—it was actually a gift to be a parts car or a roller—a shell that might have gone to someone else, might have gotten used for whatever. But it looks like where it was parked, it did just probably barely get some water inside of it. Again, this is a roller; it doesn’t have a good engine or anything—but it’s a nice-looking car—poor thing.
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**Final Reflections: Gratitude and Moving Forward**
This little area shouldn’t be too deep, but you can see pretty much everything that was once concrete. Wow—look at that storage building there to the left—this is insane! I wonder—I honestly don’t know that we’ve ever had rain this bad before that caused this much flooding.
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**Conclusion: A Message of Gratitude and Resilience**
Wow, it just keeps going—to look at all the wind, yeah, it’s raining. Yeah, you notice you’re wet—it’s really going to go really fast and then try to like skim across it, but then you can’t see and it’s not really that fun. Yeah, your camera’s doing surgery now—I’m gonna try a different line.
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**Final Thoughts: Moving Forward After the Storm**
Colette—we’ve been through quite a bit of stuff in the past week, huh? Yeah, you can say that—yeah, it’s uh, it’s been something else. We’re trying to make the best of this not-so-great situation—we’re very fortunate that most of the buildings stayed dry, and we got everything off the floor in time. But like we said—not everyone in Florida was so fortunate.
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**A Message to Friends and Family: Gratitude for Support**
We’re thinking about all our friends on the west coast—we’ve seen some pretty gnarly footage from over there. Hopefully, power and internet stay good; we’re still on the front side—on the back side, there’s going to be quite a bit of cleanup. Who knows what uh foundations or grass areas and buildings and things could have potentially gotten damaged by the water—but uh, we’re very thankful.
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**Final Closing: A Note of Gratitude**
Even though we basically got hit directly by the BullsEye—by the time I got here it kind of um, narrowed down into I don’t even do you know what scale it was once it hit here—I feel like it was probably like a one yeah—but it’s just the amount of rain here that’s pretty gnarly.
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**Closing Remarks: A Call to Action and Gratitude**
Appreciate the heck out of you guys—everyone that’s been reaching out, checking up on us. Sorry it took a little while to get this video up, but yeah—it was pretty gnarly out this morning. So, got a little LOL—got to kind of show you guys what’s up.
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**Final Words: Looking Ahead**
Thankfully, not too much worse from the last video—but wanted to make a quick update for you guys and probably going to be a little bit for back-to-normal content.
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