2023 Atlantic Hurricane Season Running Thread

I hope when this passes that Travis McGee is still in Cedar Key.

 

Friend of mine rents a mobile home in Live Oak. They've evacuated to Dothan, Ala.

Thinking there's no way that home survives.

 

Travis McGee will always be in Cedar Key … in my mind.

 

That's what old John MacDonald said.
(even though JMcD never put McGee in Cedar Key)

 

What's the appeal of living in a place if homeowners insurance is either unavailable or inordinately expensive because of natural disasters that seem intent on making return visits?

 

What's the appeal of paying $750,000 for this?

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My beautiful Florida house can be purchased --- including a century of homeowners insurance premiums --- for what that junk on the West Coast costs.

 

Still can get affordable(ish) earthquake insurance so

 

. . . that only 10% of Californians actually carry.

 

Perry is famously where a black man passing though about 15 years ago stopped in a package store for a drink and was told he had to be served at the back.

The man was a state legislator.

 

Cedar Key is a wonderful little town. Nicest people in the world. Good hole-in-the-wall bars and restaurants. My wife and I have rented a condo there for the last eight Mays, missing only the covid year. We're sick at heart at what looks like a horrendous disaster.

 

Welp, I’m old and time flies. It was 23 years ago:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/arch...ted-era/45be36b6-1d04-441c-b26c-e9a0ea62e384/

 

I did not know that, but it checks.

Saw more casual racism in the panhandle than any of the cotton states in which I lived. That was just my own experience.