UPDATE - We were hit by a tornado
Last week Wednesday, October 9th our facility and family home were hit by a devastating tornado. Here in FL we were expecting tropical storms from Hurricane Milton at the time of impact, and we were out of the danger cone. We had no way of knowing or preparing for the severity of this surprise tornado that hit us directly. We are beyond grateful to say that no one was injured, and my 8 month pregnant wife did not go into early labor thankfully. All of our animals were secured and safe indoors as well. But our property did take on some heavy damages from the storm unfortunately. We had our Gecko House roof damaged by falling tree branches, we lost our tool shed entirely. We had several outdoor enclosures and cages destroyed from 100ft australian pine trees that fell and crushed everything in site. Some cages and enclosures were launched onto other neighboring properties. Our water pumps were damaged by debris and we were without water for a few days. Our lives have been forever impacted by this tornado but we are staying strong as a family and
we are making progress with each passing day.
We had a GoFundMe started for us to help us recoop for a lot of the damages that our insurances will not be assisting us with. We are trying to get our facility up and running back to normal as quickly as possible to start fulfilling our orders and getting in contact with our customers again. We have greatly appreciated everyones patience with our company as we are going through this journey. Your support has meant everything to us and we love everyone who has reached out to check in to make sure we are doing ok.
On top of dealing with the aftermath of the storm, we discovered that Instagram has shut down our main account with no further explantation, so it has been extremely difficult to provide updates or direct contact with a lot of our TikisGeckos family and we hope to fix this problem very soon.