re: Hurricane Milton - The Cleanup Begins...

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Laura put power out all the way into Arkansas

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According to the omni-intelligent SFP, this was trumps fault

Seems like Miami was overlooked. Its resources should have been used. Guess they were afraid of a big track shift but this one is pretty locked in outside of a little shift one way or the other.

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This is what can happen when individuals aren't insured with top tier insurance companies.

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my house is in a low lying area and I don't exactly have a lot of choices when it comes to who will even write policies.

Had I bought my house a couple years earlier (pre-2005), I could have been insured by one of the big boys and been grandfathered in as long as I kept the policy active.
However I bought my house a little over a year after Rita, and NOBODY was writing policies except small "fly by night" type companies.

And over the years since then, those policies get sold to some other no name insurance company. Rinse and repeat.

House was built in the early 1950's.
And to my knowledge there has never been any insurance claims on the property going back to at least 1976 (when the previous owner bought it).

I only have a couple years left to pay on the house, but because I still owe a mortgage, I'm required to carry homeowners and flood (house has never flooded, but the area does, so I understand needing it). But apparently the companies that "insure" it aren't actually required to pay out.


and to answer the guy who asked what company: State National was the name of the Insurance Company that filed Bankruptcy and handed my claim to the State of Louisiana.

Last two center fixes from recon show a little more of a turn to the NE (as forecast). Looks to be about 50 to 60 degrees compass heading, but we will see what the NHC says at the next advisory. There is also some wobbling of the center that could be misleading.

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24 people died in Hattiesburg as well. But its "safe if your 10 miles inland"

Anyone who has stayed through a storm, hearing trees crash down around the area, know this is false.

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Well i guess everyone in Hattiesburg should've evacuated too. In fact, 2hat the frick were those idiots in Eastern Tennesse thinking?!?! Risking their lives and the lives of their loved ones. Craziness. Did they not know there was a hurricane 700 miles away?!?!?

And I'm willing to bet most of those 24 that died in Hattiesburg were driving around in high waters like a bunch of idiots instead of just staying inside or elderly people who lost power and died of heat stroke before someone could help them.

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I would have evacuated to the Miami area yesterday. More traffic on I-75 through the Everglades today as people got the idea and try to avoid the crowds to the north.

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I mean this seems like the obvious answer to me as well. It’s what I was telling a poster to do yesterday.

You either go early to the best outcome (north and out) or you leave later and go to the next best option (south) with virtually no traffic to an area that will have electricity, AC and plenty of hotels.

I mean people fly from around the world to check out Miami and the keys, if it’s that or Columbus, GA no offense to Columbus but sign me up for South Beach.

I don’t think anyone is suggesting someone who procrastinated in Tampa/Naples/Sarasota until this morning should be fighting 75N traffic into a region already heavily impacted by Helene with some places in GA still without power.

Where is live in Mandeville I am not that worried about storm surge or flooding. The wind is my major issue, took a tree to the house for Ida.

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Just curious. Does the hospital not make you stay there in the event that you can’t get in to work?

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So we have different teams, Team A are the ones who stay in the hospital during the storm. I'm on team B, so we come in as soon as the storms passes, so I'll likey go in Thursday late morning or early afternoon depending on what all happens.

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And your Lowe’s reference has me curious — just when can those places as well as grocery stores and gas stations close? Those employees have to be able to have a chance to evacuate or hunker down as well. ?

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I'm not sure to be honest with you. We did go out earlier, and you would think nothing is happening here. It's pretty much business as usual, everywhere appears to be open(besides the obvious ones like schools and stuff). I'm sure a lot of people will close early tomorrow, but I assume most places will still be open until it starts getting worse.

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Sounds like you are well prepared. One tip from my past experience, if you have any exterior doors that could get the full force of the wind driven rain, put towels up against the interior threshold to absorb moisture. Even with good storm shutters, water will be driven behind them into exterior doors and through any small cracks along the frame. That is usually the weakest point for water getting inside a house that does not otherwise get roof damage or flooding.

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Thanks that's a good tip, we will go ahead and do that. We didn't have any water get into the house during Ian, hopefully that won't be an issue this time either.

It's a weird feeling because it's not raining here, the sun was out a little bit ago, and it's barely breezy. I know it's still about 36 hours away, but it's just a odd experience.

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Well i guess everyone in Hattiesburg should've evacuated too. In fact, 2hat the frick were those idiots in Eastern Tennesse thinking?!?! Risking their lives and the lives of their loved ones. Craziness. Did they not know there was a hurricane 700 miles away?!?!?

And I'm willing to bet most of those 24 that died in Hattiesburg were driving around in high waters like a bunch of idiots instead of just staying inside or elderly people who lost power and died of heat stroke before someone could help them.

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How about, everyone has a unique situation. Quit telling people what they should do.

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there any way Tampa Bay/Sarasota doesn't get cooked by this?

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No, but worst case is the eye just goes North of the bay. Most of the models seem to have it go just to the south. Of course that means Sarasota gets crushed.