[Shipping up to Boston]

Originally Posted by Blueblaze

According the evening news, the body count's now up to 40, and I'm feeling a lot worse about my comments about this storm. But it still almost seems a joke to call it "unsurvivable", after what I saw during 20 years in Houston and three cat-5 storms.

There, I saw entire communities simply vanish in storm surge on three occasions. I saw entire forests mowed down by 150mph winds. I helped friends clean out from 3' of water in their home even though they were miles from any flood zone. A million homes were destroyed from burst pipes on one simple 10-degree day, when they had to shut down the nuclear reactor that powers the Oil Capital of the World, because the cooling water pond froze over. In fact, we lost power for more than three 3 weeks on four separate occasions, from various weather disasters. With Harvey, I had 36" in my rain gauge in two days and couldn't leave the house for a week. Flood waters lapped at my foundation on that one, which was bermed a foot above ground, but luckily the water never entered the house.

And yet, even though my insurance company, Allstate, dropped me when they left the state, the insurance premiums on my home, which escaped unscathed through all that death and destruction, never even made it to HALF what I pay here, for a 20-year-old concrete-and-steel bunker, rated for 110mph, the same distance from the ocean as my 20-year-old brick-and-pine home with single-pane windows and no wind rating whatsoever, in Houston. And that house sold for enough to buy TWO houses in the Villages.

Nevertheless, I am sorry if my previous flippant attitude offended anyone.

Why don’t you just leave it at your first and last sentence....and then move on. Trying to qualify your post(s) by adding new narratives to it doesn’t change your original premise. Keep thinking your in the safest spot in FL....remember, it’s not just hurricanes than can change your life here...it’s tornados, lightning strikes and yes, flooding. I would caution anyone from ‘poking the bear’...in this case Mother Nature.

To all the other faux ‘meteorologists’ that reside here...with your clubs and Mensa chapter meetings....when will you get over Jim Cantore stuffing you into a locker in weather school!