JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – In the past two weeks, storms have torn the roof off a hangar at a nonprofit near the Brunswick Golden Isles Airport, set a Waycross church on fire after a lightning strike, and dropped a tree onto a Jacksonville couple’s home just days after they closed on it for the first time.
Now, with the National Hurricane Center monitoring a system in the Gulf that carries a 30% chance of tropical development through Sunday, a local attorney says homeowners and renters across Northeast Florida need to act before the next storm arrives, not after.
“Most people do not think about their legal rights until after the damage is already done,” said Gene Nichols, an attorney with Nichols and Pina in Jacksonville…