Hurricane

[fan-of-fans]

I’m getting so nervous about this storm that’s expected to be a category 3 before it makes landfall. Especially seeing the devastation from Helene across 5 states just a week ago.

It looks like this could not only severely impact the coast, but all of central Florida given it’s path, I don’t think it will have much time/land to even weaken before it gets here.

20 years ago I didn’t get so worried about the storms, in 2004 we had three major storms within two months, and I never really got nervous. But I noticed during Ian a few years ago I was quite stressed out.

If I didn’t have family here, I’d consider just leaving the state, but I don’t want to deal with the really cold weather and constant cloudiness of the winters in other places.

I don’t suppose I’ll ever be able to afford to buy a home here anyway, no matter how much I save up, due to the increasingly high insurance costs. I do wonder how many people are going to have to sell their homes because they can’t afford homeowners insurance anymore.

 

[kloveland]

Yeah, and everyone's home insurance is going to go up once again! Due to the hurricanes. Insurance companies are not in the business of losing money. 

 

[fan-of-fans]

This is a major reason I’m afraid to buy a home. I don’t want to leave Florida because all my family are here, but it’s becoming increasingly expensive the last few years to insure a home. But if you have a mortgage, you have to have insurance. What if it gets so expensive you can’t afford it anymore. Or can’t even get insurance?

So I guess the only way to afford to live here is to just rent an apartment forever? That wasn’t what I had in mind, but seems like it might end up being the case. Especially with home prices and interest rates more than doubling in just 4 years.

 

[panasonicvac]

Regardless where you'd move to, there's always going to be a natural disaster. Blizzards, earthquakes, twisters, volcanoes, wildfires, etc. Also don't forget other things that could go wrong in a home such as fires from something electrical for example or flooding cause by a broken pipe which just happened earlier this year from my grandfather's cabin up in Montana. He's very lucky that his insurance is paying for almost everything. My uncle owns a rental home down in Davenport FL which is close to where the theme parks like Disneyworld are at, he just had someone inspected it for him cause he lives in Oregon and there was very minimal damage like some of the screens from the enclosure got ripped.

 

[wstonehockertv]

Hurricane Helene didn't do any damage to my apartment, but that means no internet after over a week. I was without power, which meant I had to stay at my parent's house for four days until my apartment power came back on (my parents were without water for three weeks). Helene has caused so much problems, I have filed for unemployment and FEMA (my parents told me to do it).

I know western North Carolina had been hit by Ivan 20 years ago, but Ivan was nothing compared to Helene. The coastal part of the state is used to hurricanes, but the mountain part is not.

Before y'all get concerned about me being out of a job, I am loaded with plenty of food, water, and spare cash. I refuse to mention where I work or the town I live in because it's personal.

Hurricane Irene and Sandy oddly enough were nowhere near as bad as Helene. However, the names Irene and Sandy have been retired. I wouldn't be surprised if Helene gets retired.