I am in FL.
BTW, I had 3 hurricanes hit me last year, my insurance company gave me $13,000 in change for damgage, I repaired/remodeled at a total cost of $120,000 and the only thing I got free was one bag of ice.
1] I was indured
2] I am a taxpayer
and 3] I had the desire to go to school and work and innvest and save and so I could take $100,000 + out of my investments and upgrade my home after the damage.
and 4] I never rioted and had no desire to ask for any money from anybody, including FEMA which I could have done.
and 5] I live in a nice suburb of Orlando, not a cesspool like New Orleans, so even though I have a .357 Magnum to protect myself form New Orleans types invading Orlando, our neighbors actually helped each other -- imagine that!
The charity $ and Federal $ after storms is a total fraud. The scum of society sees how much they can rip-off the Feds and the Feds have no way to manage billions being handed out so they just give it away.
Like I said, your point was well taken.
What gets me is that back in the 70's and 80's, when we were still in the low activity cycle, the director of the NHC in those days, Neil Frank, constantly issued dire warnings of what the future would bring if millions of people continued moving into vulnerable coastal areas with no thought to hurricane preparedness.
Well, now it's 20 years later, nobody listened, but his warnings were right. But you don't hear anyone talking about the fact that everyone knew what would eventually happen, you just hear lots of name calling, lots of finger pointing, lots of promises and demands for cash by everyone from the president on down.
Yeah, I have had occasion to weather a major hurricane, though the neighborhood was wrecked, everyone cooperated and survived pretty well pretty much on their own.
Anyhow, best of luck to you if this one comes near your Orlando.