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Re: Weather events 2 

By: Decomposed in POPE IV | Recommend this post (3)
Mon, 11 Sep 17 8:26 PM | 177 view(s)
Boardmark this board | POPES NEW and Improved Real Board 		Msg. 33744 of 47202
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re: "Not some snowball's chance in hell of something happening. If you choose to live next to an ocean, plan on being visited by storm surges, high winds and hurricanes or tropical depression or storms."

Interesting post.

I don't think many people build with the knowledge that they will almost certainly be wiped out one day. You suggest that those who build on the coast are doing just that - yet the truth speaks otherwise. I can't remember Fort Lauderdale or Miami ever being hit by anything significant. Hurricane Andrew hit Homestead FL in 1992, but Miami didn't take too much damage. Fort Lauderdale was almost unscathed.

Tampa hasn't been hit by a category 3 or larger in more than a century. They thought they were going to be hit by Irma but they weren't. Their streak lives on.

While it would be an understatement to call a South Floridian's chance of having hurricane damage one day 'a snowball's chance in hell,' it's also wrong to sum it up the way you have. It's not inevitable, and the majority of hurricane victims don't take serious damage very often.

By the way, I can't help but to note a certain irony in your post: While you've done a lot to protect your family from a natural disaster that MIGHT happen one day, I've never heard you say that you've done anything to protect them from a man-made disaster that you KNOW is coming. I'm speaking, of course, of socio-political-economic turmoil, or what I sometimes refer to as TEOTWAWKI.

Does ignoring TEOTWAWKI make any more sense than residing by the seashore, basking in the sun and pretending year by year that a day of reckoning isn't on its way? Less, I'd say. The ocean dwellers are playing the odds that they won't be there when disaster strikes and, meanwhile, they're living it up, getting the most enjoyment they possibly can out of life by living in paradise.

But TEOTWAWKI? It's on the way. We all know that it is. A few of us may die first and thus avoid the problem that way, but our children - who we've placed into this situation as surely as if we'd bought a home in New Orleans - won't.

Isn't that an equally irresponsible form of risk taking?

You knew I'd disagree with your post and I have, but perhaps not for the reason you expected. The MAIN reason I disagree with it is because I don't see you getting ready for a much worse catastrophe that has a far greater probability of happening. Think about that. There's still time to avoid the storm.

I'm going to modify Nemo's post #33743 #msg-1013623 just a tad because I'm big on irony and I think his advice, with just a little tweeking, speaks so well to my point:
 

Folks that live in these times KNOW what to expect. If they dont do what is necessary to survive when they KNOW something is coming, well,,,,,,,,,,,

Like the more rational financial pundits on the internet said, you have been warned, if you choose to take no action. Dont bother calling 911, we wont have the means to come help you or the people to help.........
- Nemo, with a few changes by De 

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Gold is $1,581/oz today. When it hits $2,000, it will be up 26.5%. Let's see how long that takes. - De 3/11/2013 - ANSWER: 7 Years, 5 Months


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Weather events 2
By: micro in POPE IV
Mon, 11 Sep 17 6:27 PM 		Msg. 33742 of 47202

I think many did not get the gist of what I meant so I am going to explain. Does not mean you have to agree as many will not. De for sure.... And that is no problem. ALL are entitled to their own views and thoughts.

That said here goes.

I have the financial means to live anywhere in the world I choose to.
Being a mechanical engineer, a businessman, and entrepreneur has blessed me over a career and lifetime.

I cannot sit and be idle either so I still work today for a friend of mine who was a former supplier....

WHY do I live where I do?
Because here there are no natural disasters waiting to happen.

There was a tornado outbreak back in 1974 that came through the north central part of the metropolitan Cincinnati and proceeded up I-71 to Xenia, Ohio and ripped apart that town.

It was a RARE, very RARE event...

Hurricanes are NOT RARE EVENTS. Noreasters are NOT RARE EVENTS. Flooding RIVERS are NOT rare events.

In FACT, they occur frequently and are a result of all the usual and repeatable causes.

For example: FLOODING:

In and around the shores of the Ohio River, the 2nd largest river in America, when there is a lot of rainfall, it tends to flood even though we have multiple dams built to control.
People who choose to live next to it in low lying flood plains get flooded out frequently.

WHY do they choose to stay there? I do not understand enjoying being flooded out regularly.

COAST LINES on EASTERN shore and GULF SHORES are highly susceptible with regularity to the destruction caused by Hurricanes, tropical storms, and depressions which result in lots of rain and flooding.

WHY so much flooding.

Because the GROUND IS SO LOW. At or below sea level....

Consequently, when nature's storms come there is always a lot of flooding and or damage caused by high winds and sometimes tornadoes are spawned as well.

Again, a place or area I would never choose to live because I simply do not have the tolerance to have to evacuate, tear down, lose everything including all our memories, and then have to rebuild all while having to now find a place to live until sometime our house could get rebuilt and then we do it all over again another time later.

If folks don;t mind living like that and enjoy the constant rebuilding and destruction that occurs, good for them.. I applaud your hardihood.

It ain't for me.

And let's face it here, that the odds of having another hurricane are substantially HIGHER by enormous percentages than odds of a tornado ever landing on your house ANYWHERE in the U.S. Same with living next to a river. PLAN and count on being flooded out.... Rivers rise and floods occur regularly.

Storm surge is a regular event with Noreasters up the eastern seaboard and so are infrequent hurricanes that go up that coastline as well.

I would not choose to live along that easternboard next to the ocean or within a couple of miles of it...

I love Virginia. My daughter lives there. Same city as Zim. The water table there in her area is extremely high.... You can see it laying on the ground in dry season.

Would I live where she does? NOT on your life. RICHMOND is a different story.

Anyway, areas that are always prime targets and repeatable with regularity is what I am referring to.

Not some snowball's chance in hell of something happening. If you choose to live next to an ocean, plan on being visited by storm surges, high winds and hurricanes or tropical depression or storms. Same with living next to a river. THEY FLOOD.

Count me out on any of that.... Your mileagem ay vary..

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