Tropical Storm Irene is Born

[runswithscissors]

What amazes me the most is all the dismissing of damage costs as "FEMA helped them" or "their insurance company paid". Um, that is US. The productive members of society who pay into those systems. The money doesn't fly out of the eye of the storm from a magical source. I understand if someone is 20 or 20 something and thinks it's so cool, but you really should disclose that and then we'd just blow it off. Since a 20 year old would have been 14 when they "survived Wilma" and have no clue about Florida insurance, or what it means to have your business have to close down, etc.

[valicky]

Parc Vista is a condo community off of Kendall and 142 Ave. We went and looked at a condo there for my son. We liked it because it was 2 stories and faced a nice green park area. We couldn't believe that in 2010 they still had blue tarps on the roofs from Hurricane Wilma. They're having some sort of issue with the condo association. The HOA dues were over $300 a month and some residents still have tarps. I don't know how anyone can sell a place in there.

[cixcell]

Originally Posted by runswithscissors

No I'm talking about TAMARAC. There were tarps on the roofs there throughout 2007, I know because I was house hunting at the time and cursing the deterioration of the city (by that time more due to the housing crash, overall).

Hurricane Jeanne anybody? Oh nothing, right? No. My entire HOA community in Vero Beach was impacted for at least a year if not more. Entire buildings leveled. People had to move OUT, they were uninhabitable and untenantable.

rita was a non event. you must be thinking of another storm.
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[Jetties]

Originally Posted by tallrick

It would be awesome if a hurricane could hold together and pass through NYC. Possible but highly unlikely.

Why?

[mineor yours]

I'm not knocking anyones Hurricane misery, only relating mine! Hurricane Wilma inthe Cancun area 2005. We landed in Cancun on the Saturday before the storm making landfall and the first thing I did was check weather! Only thing was a Tropical Depression in the Atlantic, great news! Or so I thought. Daily I watched this thing migrate East almost directly and within 2 days this storm was a Cat.1. The locals assured us it would turn North but, with the forward speed of 5-7mph I had concerns.
On Tues. I confronted our group of ten and warned them we better watch this thing, for inthree days I could see no turn to the North! The chuckles I recieved almost made me feel as though I was being paranoid.. Wed. the next day reality set in for us all as we sat at Sr. Frogs 2nd story floor and noticed this migration of people up the street from the ferry! One in our group asked ,"Look at these people, clothes, beds and then silence, the Hurricane was in fact going to smack us!
Decision was made to evacuate to Miridia but was a day too late, for they were taking no more tourist. Needless to say the storm started showing it's anger late Wednesday, with no way out! We rode this thing out for 3 days of 150-130 MPH winds and torrential rains that never seemed to show an end, and on the third day a few brave soles and I left the shelter to see if we had anything left in our Villa to go back to! I must say the locals took excellent care of us, and even though wet and hungry, we were thankful to have survived this thing!
A week later we finally got out, due to the fact the airport took a direct hit, (Two flights a day were sent in to deal with 20,000 stranded tourist. Getting to the line for a flight required us to leave our hotel at 2:00a.m. and stand in line 13 hours! Yep, I know Hurricanes!