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I have no idea why anyone would want to live in hurricane country.
Says me, living in volcano country.
Agree. Why people flock to such vulnerable coastal destinations escapes me. Hurricane threat isn't a matter of IF, but WHEN every single year, even if you don't happen to get hit by the eyewall itself, the topography of the place paints a big bulls eye on your house. They are not exactly rare...like volcanic eruptions.
My parents live in an evacuation zone. They had to evacuate for Hurricane Andrew in 1992.
Their home was fine, built in the mid 1960's, custom built, not a cookie cutter development.
It was the home we grew up in and it's still standing. Never any damage from any storm and my parents never had shutters. I disagreed with that decision but it was their decision. They are gone now but not from a storm.
I've never had to evacuate, live more central but have shutters and just prepare. At least, you have warnings if you want to leave. We have neighbors who have left but they headed for Georgia. Now, that looks like not such a good idea.
Every area has its good and bad.
By next year, I will have the hurricane impact glass on all the properties I own so then I will have that in place.
I have a co-worker whose parents are in their early 70's and retired to Florida from Michigan. The co-worker hates hurricane season as it entails 3-4 months of worrying about her parents who are too stubborn to evacuate - each and every time.
Meh. Hurricanes aren't the issue. It's the low elevation and flooding. I'm very close to the ocean. My house is at 50 feet MSL. I'm not going to flood. If I'm inside the NWS hurricane cone 2 days before it is due to make landfall, I haul the boat, get the dinghy off the dinghy float, stuff all the outdoor furniture into the garage, dig the plywood panels out of the garage to protect the doors and windows, and do the usual provisioning like full tank of gasoline, start the chainsaw, make 100 lbs of block ice in the chest freezer, and dig out the oil lamps.
Meh. Hurricanes aren't the issue. It's the low elevation and flooding. I'm very close to the ocean. My house is at 50 feet MSL. I'm not going to flood. If I'm inside the NWS hurricane cone 2 days before it is due to make landfall, I haul the boat, get the dinghy off the dinghy float, stuff all the outdoor furniture into the garage, dig the plywood panels out of the garage to protect the doors and windows, and do the usual provisioning like full tank of gasoline, start the chainsaw, make 100 lbs of block ice in the chest freezer, and dig out the oil lamps.
Some people don't want the stress and all the prep work that goes into living in hurricane alley. It's not worth it to them regardless of how much money and insurane they have or how high their homes are from possible flooding. Retirement should be as stress free as possible.
Hurricane—that’s it, Florida is off the list. As a New Yorker I’ve always placed Florida on the top of my retirement home search list. In fact I have a another visit to Tampa area already planned in a couple months. But with this major hurricane headed to Florida I can only think living there is too much of a stress and hassle. Time to look for less greener pastures, I guess. Hard to give up the dream. These more frequent and stronger storms I believe are the result of climate change...and I don’t see that issue being addressed. Any advice as to where to move that doesn’t require hurricane shutters, evacuations and weeks with electricity?
All areas of the country can have problems. For myself I would rule out the coasts. But you can go to Central FL and be pretty safe. Probably no matter where you go you will have the risk of losing electricity for a time so you can not avoid all risks.
We have lived in Florida for a total of 32 years and the closest we have come to getting hit by a hurricane was Irma, which only brushed past us. Some of our neighbors had power outages, our lights blinked twice and then stayed on.
Different parts of the state have more or less likelihood of being hit. We are on the gulf coast which historically gets less. My sister lives in a beach town below Cape Canaveral and has been hit several times.
We had use for a generator in the hills on northern NJ, never did in Florida. We experienced several hurricanes on Long Island, years ago.
My rule:"if you can't look out the window and see palm trees, you are too far north.
Door County is beautiful. I grew up in Wisconsin. However, I bet more people are injured and killed in winter driving then some of these natural disasters.
Door County is beautiful. I grew up in Wisconsin. However, I bet more people are injured and killed in winter driving then some of these natural disasters.
I don't doubt that. Plus, the PITA level you get from a fierce winter is guaranteed in a lot of those places as opposed to the rare and random hurricane/earthquake/fire in other areas.
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Hurricanes - I live in South Florida
