New Hurricane Thread

Hey, I live at 6,700 feet and almost couldn't buy my place because of flood insurance.

As it turned out, engineers had rerouted the potentially offending creek decades ago, but the floodplain map was never adjusted. My HOA applied once to have that fixed and somehow the paperwork was screwed up (before my time). They were able to apply again, but if it was rejected a second time, applying a third time was supposed to be incredibly expensive. The flood insurance was an extra $200 or so per month for me, so, yeah, a lot. They managed to get it all resolved about two months after I moved in. I'm not sure how the people who've lived here longer than me managed to do it so long paying so much for what they didn't really need.

Sorry, not related to hurricanes in any way...

 

I find this super interesting. Five Habitat for Humanity houses stood intact.
I find it interesting that the majority of the work is done by volunteers. I've worked on several Habitat houses and I barely knew what I was doing. But someone did.

Houses intact after Hurricane Michael were often saved by low-cost reinforcements

 

Two lineman dead, suspect in custody in hit-and-run crash in Chipley

Three linemen killed by a hit-and-run driver. (The story says two, but the third also died.)

What the hell is wrong with people? The driver, who took off on foot, was from Tampa. No telling where the linesmen were from; they're down from all over helping the restore power to the Panhandle.

 

KJIM, everything ok with your family down there?

VB

 

Reading about Typhoon Yutu, which annihilated the Northern Mariana Islands ... like Michael, it blew up from a Cat 1 to a monster in basically a day's time. Though the number of named storms may or may not be increasing, it seems like incidences like these, where storms strengthen too quickly for residents in danger to respond properly, are on the rise.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/ener...&utm_term=.a3eb7012cb04&wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1