I clicked to like this, But I really don't like seeing a beautiful classic destroyed... Even more, the families, and their homes/lives upended/detroyed are heartbreaking...... Prayers for them
The irony of this car is that 30 years ago it would have been a total loss but in today's world every panel on that car is available and it is 100 percent fixable to as good or better than it was.
What has always been interesting about the pictures that make it to the news is what's actually in them. In the background of this picture is a relatively intact house/structure. Very little debris on the ground but right in the middle is 1 - a big heavy car and 2 - an intact toilet. Yet another picture looks like you set off a bomb in each structure. Pieces everywhere and most pieces aren't identifiable.
@maverick1 is correct about the damage not being confined to any one spot. When Hugo hit Charleston every intersection on the interstate, almost to Columbia, with a cloverleaf looked like a tornado camped right in the middle of it. The trees and grass and debris were al spun in a big circle. Go 100 yards further down the interstate and it looked normal. I spent a lot of time on the barrier islands before and after Hugo. Some islands were flat from the ocean front to the intercoastal waterway. Yet the opposite end of the same island suffered minimal damage. The pine forest that belonged to Georgia Pacific were totally destroyed by Hugo. The problem wasn't fallen trees it was damage to the actual fiber structure of the wood. The wind blowing one direction ahead of the hurricane kept flexing them in one direction and then the eye passes, and the wind comes from the opposite direction. Most trees were still standing after the storm, but they wouldn't even cut them for pulp wood. They said there just wasn't anything usable. I talk to people that live in the upstate and have never lived on the coast about how the rising water seems to never stop coming during a hurricane and they can't seem to grasp it. You can't hide from it or outrun it.
Every Floridian I know or have chatted with about hurricanes has the same attitude as maverick1. It's not bravery of fear, it's a clear understanding of what is coming and how to deal with it. Most non-Floridians don't understand that.
And we have a member that hasn't been on in a while that is also in Florida,
@Raskin. He lives north of Orlando near my friend John Craft and I feel sure he fared the same as John with wind and rain but no rising water.
It's a long road to recovery but they will get thru it and rebuild.