Pray for our Florida FABO friends

gzig5 said
It really doesn't matter what the house is made of when a 12 foot storm surge inundates it. Everything is ruined even though the walls still stand. Everything within ten miles of the Florida coast is at 5-10 feet above sea level. Big difference to a mountainous place like PR. The flooding is usually more destructive and deadly than the winds.

There are mountains in the middle of PR, including the Tropical Rain Forrest called El Yunque, but if you are close to the coast it is very much like Florida. In a ton of areas you can go quite far inland before you are into the higher elevations. All of the tourist area where the hotels are in the northern part of the island, like the Condado area is right at sea level, including a bunch of homes. I attached a photo of the Condado area which is in San Juan, and right next to old San Juan, you can clearly see the thousands and thousands of people that live here at sea level.