The Unlimited Atlantic Hurricane Season Fread

[Suu]

I'm impressed with National Grid. I mean...FLOORED with National Grid.

[Suu]

Don't start planning lunch yet, LMNO. I just got word that parts of Warwick won't have power until at least Monday.

[Cainad (dec.)]

Still no power at home.

[Dysfunctional Cunt]

Dear Coast Dwellers,

If you buy or build a house on a sandy beach on a coast prone to hurricanes and storms, please STFU when it gets washed out to sea. WTF did you expect?

In Florida, if your home is considered "beyond repair" and has to be rebuilt, insurance will no longer pay for it to be built on the same piece of property.  I believe there are actually guidelines on how far away your new home has to be.  That all happened after Andrew.  That's when mom and dad moved further inland.

My thinking is this has to be covered when you are getting insurance quotes.  I mean if you see "hurricane" anything in your insurance paperwork you have to have a clue your home has the potential to be hit.  Well aside from being able to see water from your porch that is....

[Doktor Howl]

Dear Coast Dwellers,

If you buy or build a house on a sandy beach on a coast prone to hurricanes and storms, please STFU when it gets washed out to sea. WTF did you expect?

Let's try that a little differently.

Dear Midwesterners,

If you buy or build a house in a state prone to tornados and storms, please STFU when it gets picked up and dumped in Wyoming.  WTF did you expect?

[Fredfredly ⊂(◉‿◉)つ]

Dear Everyone,

If you buy or build a house in a state prone to weather, please STFU when weather happens.

fixt

[Doktor Howl]

Dear Everyone,

If you buy or build a house in a state prone to weather, please STFU when weather happens.

fixt

DEAR OHIO,

IF YOU GET EATEN BY YOUR NEIGHBORS, IT'S NOBODY'S FAULT BUT FRED'S.

[P3nT4gR4m]

Nothing to see here folks, move along. Climate change isn't real, after all.

Hurricane Irene's rampage up the East Coast has become the tenth billion-dollar weather event this year, breaking a record stretching back to 1980, climate experts said Wednesday.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44338096/ns/weather/#.Tl4YT13lhQ0

Climate change is very real.

Hurricanes used to be stronger.

The climate changes constantly, it's a highly unstable system. Where the arguments happen is over how much of it is our fault. Personally I don't have a fucking clue the answer to that one and I'm getting hit with propaganda from both ends of the spectrum and all points in between. So this latest thing suggests that 30-odd years of ozone bashing has served to make it as bad as it was thirty-odd years ago? Reinforces my opinion that statistics can be used to say pretty much anything.

[Suu]

Dear Coast Dwellers,

If you buy or build a house on a sandy beach on a coast prone to hurricanes and storms, please STFU when it gets washed out to sea. WTF did you expect?

In Florida, if your home is considered "beyond repair" and has to be rebuilt, insurance will no longer pay for it to be built on the same piece of property.  I believe there are actually guidelines on how far away your new home has to be.  That all happened after Andrew.  That's when mom and dad moved further inland.

My thinking is this has to be covered when you are getting insurance quotes.  I mean if you see "hurricane" anything in your insurance paperwork you have to have a clue your home has the potential to be hit.  Well aside from being able to see water from your porch that is....

Allstate pulled out completely in 2004 following the triple strike. They refused to pay claims, packed up, and left. They are now no longer permitted to do any business within the state of Florida.

[Adios]

Dear Coast Dwellers,

If you buy or build a house on a sandy beach on a coast prone to hurricanes and storms, please STFU when it gets washed out to sea. WTF did you expect?

Let's try that a little differently.

Dear Midwesterners,

If you buy or build a house in a state prone to tornados and storms, please STFU when it gets picked up and dumped in Wyoming.  WTF did you expect?

Interesting, but there is a pretty big difference. Tornadoes don't cover nearly the territory as a hurricane and are random. Hurricanes and coastlines are like a romance, you always find them together.

[Suu]

People need to remember though, that we live where the disasters go. The disasters don't go where we live.

[Doktor Howl]

Dear Coast Dwellers,

If you buy or build a house on a sandy beach on a coast prone to hurricanes and storms, please STFU when it gets washed out to sea. WTF did you expect?

Let's try that a little differently.

Dear Midwesterners,

If you buy or build a house in a state prone to tornados and storms, please STFU when it gets picked up and dumped in Wyoming.  WTF did you expect?

Interesting, but there is a pretty big difference. Tornadoes don't cover nearly the territory as a hurricane and are random. Hurricanes and coastlines are like a romance, you always find them together.

Arizona doesn't get any hurricanes on our coast.

[Suu]

The California border is not a coast, no matter what Tool tells you.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Dear Coast Dwellers,

If you buy or build a house on a sandy beach on a coast prone to hurricanes and storms, please STFU when it gets washed out to sea. WTF did you expect?

Let's try that a little differently.

Dear Midwesterners,

If you buy or build a house in a state prone to tornados and storms, please STFU when it gets picked up and dumped in Wyoming.  WTF did you expect?

Interesting, but there is a pretty big difference. Tornadoes don't cover nearly the territory as a hurricane and are random. Hurricanes and coastlines are like a romance, you always find them together.

We don't get hurricanes here.

Basically, other than a few really obvious "don'ts" such as "Don't build your city on a floodplain", almost anywhere with food and water is as reasonable as anyplace else. I challenge you to find a location in the US that doesn't have one or more of the following:

*Hurricanes
*Tornadoes
*Wretched heatwaves/drought
*Buttfucking cold-ass blizzards
*Major faultlines
*Volcanoes

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Basically, Earth is a really shitty place to decide to live, and we should have thought of that before building here.