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Originally Posted by margaretmattson
How is your tornado in Tulsa REAL and the one in the Villages FAKE? Again, were you here to see the devastation? That picture is ONLY ONE AREA that was hit. It was taken AFTER the clean up and well into rebuilding. You lived in Oklahoma for years, when have you seen a TAME tornado? Or irrelevant lightening strikes that burn down homes, or measly little sinkholes that sink homes into the ground?
Farmers is leaving Florida in part due to many natural disasters throughout Florida NOT ONLY ON THE COASTS. Litigation may also be part of the reason. The examples about the Villages disasters were just EXAMPLES. Take into account these disasters are occurring THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE STATE it is easy to understand why insurance companies are leaving. Florida is not Oklahoma. You can't compare the two.
Is Oklahoma the lightening capital? No, that would be Florida! Does Oklahoma have massive areas throughout the state where sinkholes occur? Does it get destroyed by hurricanes year after year? Waterspouts? Does Oklahoma have those? Unamed storms that flood communities? Sea walls breaking because of too much water? Rivers that flood? Forests that burn because of drought? I can go on....
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Top 10 states for lightning:
U.S. top states by total lightning count 2021 | Statista
#1: TEXAS
#2: Florida
#3: OKLAHOMA
Sinkholes in Oklahoma:
5 Sinkholes In Oklahoma That Will Leave You Terrified
Waterspouts? Seriously? A cat-1 tornado over the ocean? Seriously? WHO CARES!
Your Villages tornado is only fake compared to a typical Oklahoma tornado. I have personally witnessed countless areas of total devastation like in my picture. Pictures like yours of houses with missing shingles don't even make the news in Tulsa.
Hurricanes only cause massive damage on the coast -- which is totally irrelevant to the Villages. My entire point is that the Villages is not at risk from hurricanes. WE ARE NOT TAMPA.
Floods? Would you like to see some pictures of the '86 Tulsa flood? '84? Would you like to know why there hasn't been such a flood in Tulsa in 30 years? Because they implemented the EXACT SAME FLOOD CONTROL MEASURES THAT THE VILLAGES HAS ALWAYS HAD. Would you like to see some pics of my Houston home during Harvey -- outside of any flood zone whatsoever -- with flood water lapping the foundations of my house and barn, while we were stranded for a week until the roads became passable? I spent the next few weeks helping neighbors clean up, who also didn't live in a flood zone but weren't so lucky.
The point is, real disasters happen everywhere, and a lot more often in Oklahoma, Texas, and Tampa than the Villages. The point of this thread is, WHY IS INSURANCE IN THE VILLAGES 4 TIMES THE COST OF OTHER STATES AND WHY IS FARMERS BAILING OUT?
I guarantee it has NOTHING to do with the weather!