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Post by azblue on Sept 27, 2022 22:27:05 GMT -5
Category 4 winds and 20-30 inches of rain are precited for a wide swath of the west coast of Florida and Ft. Myers is at dead center of the predicted landfall as of 11:25 p.m. EDT on Tuesday.
This could create severe damage at the area stadiums and related structures and affect the Instructionl League.
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Post by Oregon Norm on Sept 27, 2022 23:02:46 GMT -5
That beast may slow down and stall. That would really compound the damage.
While Ft. Myers is to the S. of expected landfall, it could be absolutely inundated by the storm surge because it would bear the full brunt of the counter-clockwise flow at the periphery, where the winds are fiercest.
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bigmarty58
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Post by bigmarty58 on Sept 28, 2022 8:00:51 GMT -5
This storm does not look good. Let's hope and pray for the people living in Florida.
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Post by incandenza on Sept 28, 2022 10:09:43 GMT -5
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Sept 28, 2022 10:15:37 GMT -5
We've got a decent number of Floridian posters here. Stay safe y'all.
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Post by grandsalami on Sept 28, 2022 14:48:06 GMT -5
apparently there was an actual freaking shark in the streets in Ft Myers (and not a hoax like other times)
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Post by KB24 on Sept 28, 2022 15:53:13 GMT -5
Ft. Myers Beach has been getting absolutely wrecked by the storm surge. Houses floating away off of their foundations, etc. The videos I'm seeing on Twitter are awful. Super sad to see and thinking about everyone being impacted by this storm.
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Post by Oregon Norm on Sept 29, 2022 12:02:51 GMT -5
The amount of destruction is catastrophic for the communities of SW Florida. Flooding has made it difficult to get to those who need to be rescued. Bridges have been destroyed and the ocean made its way miles inland on the surge. Wreckage everywhere. Insurers are trying to rework their risk estimates as this stuff happens again and again, but they have no models to guide them.
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Post by costpet on Sept 29, 2022 13:06:34 GMT -5
I might be wrong, but from what I understand, you can only get flood insurance through FEMA. The regular insurance companies will cover wind damage, but not flood. There was a big fight about this after Katrina as to exactly how different properties were damaged. Was it wind or water? The insurance companies claimed it was all flood damage, so they didn't have to pay. A lot of those cases went to court. It's very expensive, so most people don't get the flood insurance. I have a cottage on the Chesapeake Bay in Virginia. I bought the FEMA insurance, which at the time about 10 years ago, cost me over $3000/yr It's probably much more now. I cancelled it in 2010 and took my chances. So far, so good. I'll bet not a lot of people in South Florida don't have it. That means, if their homes were flooded out, they lost everything and are not insured for any of it.
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Post by Oregon Norm on Sept 29, 2022 13:26:56 GMT -5
The Times is reporting that just 18.5% of homes in the affected counties have insurance. One of the British universities used EPA data and remote sensing to determine that the maps used to decide who needs federal flood insurance only covered a third of those at actual risk.
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