Tampa is due for a major hurricane and isn't prepared (article) (Miami: live in, cost of)

[bobandsherry]

Let's face it, 99.9% of the politicians are just full of, well, you know. The other .1% are being groomed to spew the same, well, you know.

[mrviking]

Originally Posted by bobandsherry

Let's face it, 99.9% of the politicians are just full of, well, you know. The other .1% are being groomed to spew the same, well, you know.

Agree^^ Then to add to the mix is a main stream media with their own agenda! what a country..

[BucFan]

Originally Posted by mrviking

"Remember if you like your doctor you can keep him.
IF you like your insurance company you can keep it.
Premiums will be reduced by an average of $2500."

I've had my same doctor, my premiums haven't changed, nor has my insurance company. He didn't lie to me....

Still waiting for your guy to replace and repeal ACA all on the same day with something better at a fraction of the price while building a wall that Mexico will pay for.......he said both things hundreds of times but we haven't seen any of that, have we?

[BucFan]

Originally Posted by sinatras

You know that aerial photo they keep showing of flooded Houston and South Texas? Photos like this?



I have spent all weekend with that photo in my mind, except not picturing Houston streets, but picturing Tampa streets instead.

This is what Tampa Bay is going to look like when we get a major storm with storm surge.

City leaders will have a looting problem to deal with. Lots of ruthless people here in FL who'll take advantage of the situation and enter the city from Orlando, Miami/Ft Lauderdale just for the purpose of stealing......

[Travelassie]

Originally Posted by BucFan

You are right, sir.

Not a matter of "if"......but rather "when"......

Phone systems are being taxed by people calling for assist. Another learning point.

Interruption of phone service, spotty and no service has been a problem with every hurricane I ever went through, or heard about. That's in addition to the lines being overloaded, when they're available, with so many people trying to make phone calls. As I recall, it seemed that cell phones worked (at least sporadically), for several hours after the power went out, winds died down, and so on, but after the batteries providing the alternate power to the cell towers (however that works) died, there went the cell phone service till the power was restored.

I'd hope that the phone service providers and other powers that be have found and put in place measures to mitigate that loss of phone service due to power outages after a storm, but I don't know if they have. The overload on phone service after any natural disaster,IMO should be easily anticipated, but what to do about it is more of a challenge.

One of the things we're seeing on the media coverage of the aftermath (and continuing effects, sadly) of Harvey on the southeast TX coast is the self-sufficiency of so many people there, taking the steps needed to get themselves out of harms way, efforts of neighbors to help each other, sharing their resources, living space, transportation (boats!).

IMO, whatever we do to learn from observation in natural disasters, and however we figure we can best be prepared in the event a natural (or even unnatural) disaster pays us a visit, preparation on a local level, ie, neighbors in a neighborhood determining what they would do, what they would need, and how they could best help in a disaster locally should be part of any disaster plan.

[BucFan]

Evacuate or stay? No easy answer | Tampa Bay Times

I'm going. Would like to stay and help out - but right now, plan is to haul ass ahead of the crowd.

[Travelassie]

Originally Posted by BucFan

City leaders will have a looting problem to deal with. Lots of ruthless people here in FL who'll take advantage of the situation and enter the city from Orlando, Miami/Ft Lauderdale just for the purpose of stealing......

They'd come from many other locations than just the ones you mentioned. Just wait till the cleaning up and rebuilding process begins. Such disasters attract every lowlife out to take advantage of the unfortunate, ie, unlicensed contractors, roofers, scam artists out to take all the rebuilding money they can get.

And looting? Don't even get me started on that, after Hurricane Andrew in Miami, 10 years after the event I was still discovering items missing that had been stolen from us from looters (maybe some of them even neighbors) going through our uninhabitable house.

[mrviking]

I guess the mods pick and choose who is allowed to have snarky political commentary.
I hope an agenda is not being exposed or else the rest of this thread needs to be cleaned up.

[Travelassie]

Originally Posted by BucFan

Evacuate or stay? No easy answer | Tampa Bay Times

I'm going. Would like to stay and help out - but right now, plan is to haul ass ahead of the crowd.

And depending on where you are, and what's coming your way, that may be the very best thing you can do. I don't think anyone, especially anyone who's ever been in that situation, could have anything but a thumbs up response to folks who are planning to evacuate ahead of the crowd in the event of something like a Harvey headed their way.

[LKJ1988]

Originally Posted by mrviking

I hope all the people in florida living by the gulf or a large body of water or living in a flood zone take notice.
Eventually you will pay the price, not if but when. Cover you home and be prepared for the EXPECTED.

"Insurance experts say only a small fraction of homeowners in Harvey's path of destruction have flood insurance".


News from The Associated Press

Maybe this will put FEMA over the cliff riff. I go bare anyways so it don't matter what it cost. Sure as heck not spending 5k a year to insure a house worth about 35k jay.