a housing estate for 180,000 s wohipers. the regular hurricanes that tear across the region don't put prospeive buyersff. despite althe warninsigns, construction here continues apace. former county commissioner ray judah shows us what cape coral looked like before the bulldozers and backhoes arrived. ray: their limited or lack of planning, where they really recognize that there is gonna be some 400,000 residents in cape coral someday, well, they need to start planning for more open space and to actually provide for development and growth away from the waterways, so that it doesn't put people in harm's way. reporter: it all began in the 1950's, when two speculators snapped up some swampland. uninhabitable mangrove swamps beme construction sites, with very little infrastructure. the advertising promised paradise on earth. jim: marshes and those mangroves protected the pine flatwoods and the hier ground behind that. now the ocean's been invited all the way in to the center of the city. and so sea level is going to rise througho