MATLACHA, Fla.—Jeff Funchion sits in a wicker loveseat in the slim shade of a travel trailer with a fan pushing air and carpets unrolled before him on a crushed-shell driveway with a 50-foot long cement pad at the end.
He’s waiting for a buyer this Sunday afternoon, hoping someone will come along and purchase his lot with its vacant pad. Plus, he lives here.
Funchion lived for 14 years in a single-wide Detroiter until Hurricane Ian’s 155-mph winds whipped a Circle K sign from miles away into it and swamped his mobile home park in five feet of angry water….