Posted on 10/11/2018 12:42:19 PM PDT by Red Badger
I can’t wait to see the new Season of “Beach House Bargain Hunt” on HGTV.
They might have to rename the Show “Beach Lot Bargain Hunt”.
I hope to never see it first hand.
My sister lived there. She texted me as they were evacuated to Biloxi. She was sure it would all be gone just days before Michael hit. So sad.
What is interesting is how newer hurricane “proof” homes are left standing and older homes are demolished.
Oh, and no school bus Nagan to screw things up either.
There has also been much better coordination between local, state and feds as a result of Katrina.
This will be blamed on CLIMATE CHANGE in 10...9...8...7.... Waut for it!
I grew up in a home a half mile from the Atlantic Ocean in south Florida in the 1950s.
We had concrete block walls, plus a vertical column of poured concrete that reinforced the walls about every 20 feet, plus, the roof was latched down into the concrete wall columns.
There were about 400 homes in my neighborhood. Every time one of your trees got big enough to fall on your house or fall on power lines, the city chopped down your tree and removed it.
In the 50s and 60s, we had three hurricanes with sustained winds over 100mph, and gusts up to 125mph.
Every big tree blew down.
But, there was ZERO structural damage to ZERO homes in my neighborhood.
The homes that blow apart today are built out of sticks and nails.
Having observed cinderblock buildings in Rockport, Texas post Harvey, I can tell you that they don’t hold up in Cat 4 storms unless reinforced with rebar thru the blocks or something else like that.
I remember bad ones smashing the areas back in 1950s through 1960s.
Not to long ago, people only built shacks on the beach islands. Now they build multi-million dollar homes.
So what would have been a minor inconvenience suddenly becomes a major loss.
It should not be possible to get subsidized flood insurance. If people want to get insurance on a barrier island for a million dollar house, they should pay the premium that is sufficient to cover their likely losses. Otherwise, there is no incentive to keep costs down in high risk areas. In fact, there is a perverse incentive to overbuild.
And you know how I feel about perverse incentives.
Sick of these stupid headlines. The damage is very imaginable and routine for Hurricanes and Tornado’s all the time.
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We are now using the Daily Mail and Enquirer headlines in our daily news.
“But there won’t be one major problem like Katrina....minimum looting.
Oh, and no school bus Nagan to screw things up either.”
Sometimes people choose not to evacuate.
That happens with every hurricane.
The media will for certain sensationalize lesser category hurricanes but for the upper-end Cat 4 and Cat 5 storms, damage in the 20-30 mile wide path of the eye is catastrophic and for those who never experienced such storm, the destruction is simply unimaginable.
As cynical as we are about fake news and media hype, television cameras do not convey the scale of destruction left by the monster storms.
Once they get to picking through and picking up the debris the body count is going to increase.
“They might have to rename the Show “Beach Lot Bargain Hunt”.”
‘I’m really sorry to hear your parents perished here. Will you take $50,000 for the lot?’
This is fake news. There were only 40MPH gusts, right?
What troubles me is folks who build on glorified sandbars like Saint George Island and Alligator Point.
I love both of those places, but I don’t know how they could have survived this hurricane. Most of SGI was under water at one point.
I am fortunate that my tiny retirement home in Lanark Village seems to have survived intact. Of course, it has been there since about 1943...
And I took down the pine trees in our front yard.
Praises to God for his mercy.
Mr. Mercat and I went down after Katrina and Rita to take supplies to people. We actually went to the Rita sites and because we were bringing supplies we got to go out with a couple a good old boys in their Dooley to look at the devastation. All the houses were off their foundations. I remember one house totally washed away with a statue of Mary.
Not by much.
Most folks got out, the rest went to higher ground.
This area is not New Orleans.
Mexico Beach looks worse than anything I saw after Katrina.
Horrible.
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