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This goes out to Ed in Tampa... Rain much yesterday? Was driving from Sarasota to Gainesville and back to Orlando airport. My God, what a trip, never saw it rain so hard! Hope all in the area stayed dry!

I can tell you Clearwater/St. Pete got lots of rain. No flooding that I know of.

Well we got about 5 inches. However that is really nothing all that extreme or unique.
We once got 18 in 12 hours. Now that flooded everyone that bought houses where the lakes used to be.

I will say my first rain storm in Florida made me excited. I thought it was the end. But after 37 years such rains are so common the only people that get excited are the weather people. I think they figure if they run around hollering the sky is falling they insure they have a job.

Of course those that built on the beach got flooded. Who knew? I can't figure out people they build where it has to flood and then act lsurprised that it flooded. But hay they got everyone fooled, so we will rebuild their house so they can comfortably sit in their house and chase everyone off their beach. Of course the insurance companies calculate their payout and spreads the cost to everyone in Florida, ala Bernie Sanders.

Bitter? Who me? Nay I love paying high insurance so everyone on the beach can get flooded every year and have their house rebuilt at twice the price of last time.

Ed in Tampa wrote:Well we got about 5 inches. However that is really nothing all that extreme or unique.
We once got 18 in 12 hours. Now that flooded everyone that bought houses where the lakes used to be.

I will say my first rain storm in Florida made me excited. I thought it was the end. But after 37 years such rains are so common the only people that get excited are the weather people. I think they figure if they run around hollering the sky is falling they insure they have a job.

Of course those that built on the beach got flooded. Who knew? I can't figure out people they build where it has to flood and then act lsurprised that it flooded. But hay they got everyone fooled, so we will rebuild their house so they can comfortably sit in their house and chase everyone off their beach. Of course the insurance companies calculate their payout and spreads the cost to everyone in Florida, ala Bernie Sanders.


Bitter? Who me? Nay I love paying high insurance so everyone on the beach can get flooded every year and have their house rebuilt at twice the price of last time.

Truer words only spoken In CA, get burnt out on the hills with wild fires, then no root structure to hold the mud when it rains. House gone. Same scenario, different State I will stay in the Mid West and tough out the winters.
I dont what the heck happened on my original, quote and comment, but it ended up in the quote.

Ed, I hope those people on the beaches have their rates jacked up each time they defy mother nature. Same for anyone that refuses to move on when it's become obvious that a site is sure to flood repeatedly.

retiredsoldier919 wrote:Ed, I hope those people on the beaches have their rates jacked up each time they defy mother nature. Same for anyone that refuses to move on when it's become obvious that a site is sure to flood repeatedly.

That is the problem, years ago Governor Crist modified the insurance industries so that people with the most liability of damage didn't pay their share and the total liability was passed on the the rest of the state.
Most insurance companies pulled out of Florida and Florida had to start a state run insurance company (citizens). Since then secessive Governors have tried to shut down Citizens and reintroduce private insurance companies.

Most people don't understand this ( short memories or political affiliation). In the mean time a guy that is built on the beach and is a sure bet to be eventually swept away pays nearly what a guy the sits 100 miles inland and has about no chance of storm damage.

I live 21 miles inland but my house insurance is about 5 times what my friend in Ga pays for the same house type, same liability, same construction, with his house actually costing more. I'm talking $700 to $4000 per year. Plus I must carry separate hurricane insurance for any damage that occurs during a named storm, even if the damage was caused by something non storm related.

Good ole Charlie Crist made sure his cronies on the beach would get perferred treatment at the cost of everyone that lives in Florida.

I live in Connecticut on the shoreline (1/2 mile away). My homeowners is about $2800 a year with the lizard. Around here the insurance companies have higher rates when you live in a wind shear zone, (near the shore). A few years ago they were charged with gouging. Better now.
Something to watch as my wife wants to retire to Florida in a few years!

Hey Chris
Look at central Florida in the lakes area. Lots of fishing,golf (if you like golf) boating and a whole bunch of retirement communities to pick from.
Bill V

wa2crk wrote:Hey Chris
Look at central Florida in the lakes area. Lots of fishing,golf (if you like golf) boating and a whole bunch of retirement communities to pick from.
Bill V

I agree many insurance companies now in Florida do not write insurance in counties that touch salt water. If I was going to retire and move somewhere I would go to where all the Florida retirees go. The area where Tenn, SC and NC touch, around Murphy Tenn.

The area that WA2CRK is talking about almost got blown away a few years back when tornados leveled many houses in the area called the Villages in central Florida. I spent a few weeks taking emergency supplies up to that area after the storm.