The Punta Gorda Boat Club building has sat on the city’s Harborwalk since 1962, now due to damage from Hurricane Milton, the building might need to be torn down.
“I had tears, little tears come down because its just like losing your home,” said Ruby Ryan, Commodore of the Punta Gorda Boat Club.
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The Punta Gorda Boat Club building could be demolished after Hurricane Milton
Ryan told Fox 4 that like others in Southwest Florda, boat club members had just got their building cleaned up from Hurricane Helene, when Hurricane Milton hit.
“All our members worked so hard and got it all ready, really it just needed a paint job and we were waiting for air conditioners,” said Ryan. “Then Milton came in and did the job.”
The since the construction of the building, it has always been able to recover from hurricanes with repairs. But the damage from Milton was more extensive than anything the building had withstood in the past.
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