You don’t see neighborhoods like this anymore because most young parents don’t own homes. Less than 5% of mortgage holders are under 30 in major metros, and the average homeowner is over 50.
That’s why most neighborhoods or suburbs feel empty, they’re owned by older people whose kids are grown, while younger families are renting apartments & priced out of the communities.
The overwhelming takeaway from tonight is that sexism, racism, homophobia, sexual assault, violent crime and treason are not dealbreakers for virtually half of the country.
That’s terrifying.
Hurricane Milton absolutely DESTROYED Manasota Key, AKA Englewood Beach, Florida.
The roads are covered in many feet of sand, and the homes have absolutely been hollowed out, with some being buried.
It will take years to recover.
Footage by Hudson Dalton via Facebook
Every single building in @TresIslandFL had 2-6 feet of water in it. The fire and police stations are destroyed. Sunset Beach residents say people can’t even comprehend how devastating the damage is. She’s right. These images don’t do it justice. It’s apocalyptic 💔
Helene’s Cat 4 landfall gives the U.S. a record eight Cat 4 or Cat 5 Atlantic hurricane landfalls in the past eight years (2017-2024), seven of them being continental U.S. landfalls. That’s as many Cat 4 and 5 landfalls as occurred in the prior 57 years.
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