New Hurricane Thread

You're not going to have water or power for a long time, either.

 

Lost here is that the Florida panhandle had much looser home construction requirements than the rest of the state did post-Andrew, and yet the Gulf side is more likely to get hit by a hurricane. I’m trying real hard to not lay blame where it belongs, because if I do Moddy will lock the thread.

 

Those Chinese really know how to wage weather warfare.

 

Patricia Mazzei is an excellent writer.

 

I'm wondering, what do we guess the percentage of affected people from this disaster have no insurance on their home?

 

I believe the sj.com style in this case is “loooser.”

 

#bandwagonboyneverforget

 

Anybody with a mortgage has to have insurance, don't they?

And if you're capable enough to have it paid off, you're probably not dumb enough to go without insurance.***

***But it IS Florida, so . . .

 

I think it's a pretty safe bet the coastal people had multiple insurances - homeowners and federal flood. People a few to several miles inland in the direct path of the storm and flooding, probably not so much.

 

The fun part here is finding an insurance company that will insure coastal homes at all. Insurers have been overly balky since Andrew.

 

Knowing State Farm and others had stopped writing new policies after Andrew, I thought I would have all kinds of problems when I bought a house in 1996. But independent agents always came up with companies to handle it.