dkommers wrote:Woofde wrote:I'm not gonna lie this "Best spot for the storm to go discussion" is useless imo. I'll tell you, when I was chasing Idalia in Perry last year and staring at people's homes with trees through the middle and businesses without roofs, I definitely wasn't thinking "Well this was the best place for this storm to go!" I'm not a fan of this discussion it feels insensitive to the people who live there. There's nothing to be gained from it, we can't control where these go.
Yeah I'm a Public Adjuster and have about 20 clients in Perry, Madison, Mayo, etc, from Idalia. Debbie created more messes, and now Helene. Three hurricanes hitting an area in a one-year time period is bonkers. It is true that being an isolated area, the money loss of a hit here compared to other regions will count as a win in the insurance companies' eyes. But the communities in this area are in shambles. The morale of the amazing people there is beyond horrible.
It seems this storm will also be much worse than the previous two. My stomach is hurting thinking about what people will soon be dealing with.
Anyone who has not experienced a direct hit (or near miss) from one of these storms doesn't truly understand what it takes to "get back to normal life." It can takes year, DECADES, to get "back to normal."
We had Charley 20 years ago, and many homes are still not brought back to what they were pre-
And then along came Ian, and while it might SEEM like less damage, I observed that that was mostly due to the oldest, most dilapidated homes hadn't already been knocked down by Charley! Meanwhile, many of the "fringe" homes - those who were badly damaged, but not judged to be completed destroyed - had people living in them simply because FEMA or insurance or whatever was not enough to bring their home back up to what they had before the storm were now damaged beyond repair. Whose sections of our town look like a bomb went off - still - 2 years later.
And now if a THIRD one were to hit here (TWO years later, not just one, or only a few months), I don't know how this community could survive.
I especially feel terrible for Mexico Beach, as we drove up there with supplies for that area after Michael and could not believe the entire beach along one stretch - for miles - was just *gone.* What does one do then? Did FEMA help pay for them to rebuild? Did they get enough insurance? Did they simply move away or are they close by, planning/hoping to rebuild one day. And now another storm may make that impossible?
I suppose one could make the argument that the "atmosphere conditions have changed" and returned to the middle of the last century (yes, I'm old enough to remember then!), when we had back-to-back storms in consecutive years and you just had to rebuild.
Cleo - 1964, Betsy - 1965, David - 1979, Andrew - 1992, Charlie (Francis, Ivan, Jeanne) - 2004, Irma - 2017, Ian - 2022