Resident: Florida’s Cedar Key Is “Completely Gone”

September 27, 2024 Disaster, Weather

The New York Times reports:

Cedar Key, a small community on a collection of tiny islands jutting into the Gulf of Mexico, is emerging as one of the areas most devastated when Helene struck Florida’s Big Bend region on Thursday night.

“Cedar Key as we know it is completely gone,” said Michael Bobbitt, a novelist and playwright who lives in the heart of the community and who stayed behind to help whoever he could. An estimated 75 residents chose not to leave, officials said. “Entire houses have been picked up and moved away,” Mr. Bobbitt said.

On Friday afternoon, Mr. Bobbitt said that residents of Cedar Key were stunned and somber, and making comparisons to the great Cedar Keys hurricane of 1896, which killed dozens of people in the area. “Whenever I talk to people who live here,” he said, “they say, ‘Everything’s gone.’”

Read the full article. In the videos, you’ll see that many buildings still standing have had their lower floors completely blown through. Cedar Key is about an hour southwest of Gainesville.



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