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Post by vikingo on Oct 1, 2022 6:30:25 GMT -5
The nation mourns the dead and prays that most of the thousands of missing have survived. Untold families are now homeless and have lost everything they ever worked for.
Undamaged real estate in low lying areas now worth next to nothing and their mortgages are now upside down. Future insurance premiums will be out of sight, if flood and storm insurance even still available. What looks like thousands of expensive damaged boats will be auctioned off for 10 cents on the dollar. Huge loans on those boats will go into default and some banks will disappear. Untold numbers of cars and pickups damaged and require extensive repairs.
Number of damaged costly light aircraft tied down on airports is still unknown.
Extensive infrastructure damage in storm hit areas to be reckoned with.
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Post by wildstubby on Oct 1, 2022 7:07:25 GMT -5
We are getting the remnants of Ian now here in PA. I guess it spawned a few tornadoes across northern VA yesterday. Though this was indeed a tragedy but it gives me a unique opportunity. We are planning on moving to the interior of South Carolina once litigation is finished here. I know better to live in 'Zone A' that receives the most amount of storm surge during hurricanes like this one. So I am settling on the interior near one of the larger lakes, Lake Marion, Lake Murray, etc. This will give me a good 'high water mark' to determine the best place to live.
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Post by vikingo on Oct 1, 2022 7:25:30 GMT -5
The water-levels of lakes will rise with heavy rains. We just don't know what else the change in climate has in store for us. Best to stay on higher grounds without the possibility of land slides of which we had quite a few in Colombia.
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Post by wildstubby on Oct 1, 2022 15:26:04 GMT -5
These are man-made lakes with hydroelectric damns at their pinch-points. There was a spell when the a lot of south-eastern states flooded valleys to use for electricity. I know of Smith Mountain Lake and Leesville Lake up in VA as a couple.
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Post by vikingo on Oct 2, 2022 17:02:26 GMT -5
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Post by wildstubby on Oct 3, 2022 5:23:33 GMT -5
My wife's sobrino was in Tampa. He had friends and family up near the Fort Myers area. He took gasoline and water up to them. Meanwhile, I've been watching the radar as it progressed up the coast. We got a total of ~.25" of rain with little winds to speak of. However, Philadelphia and southern NJ tells a different story. They got nailed with wave after wave of rain bands. Northern VA had some tornadoes and lots of rain also.
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Post by vikingo on Oct 3, 2022 7:41:08 GMT -5
My daughter lives in Virginia Beach, lots of heavy wind and rain she said, nothing terrible. She told of hurricane Katrina in 2005 that destroyed New Orleans with more than 1800 dead in Louisiana. I was surprised, it was news to me, had never heard of it or totally forgotten, maybe because I had just arrived in Colombia.
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Post by wildstubby on Oct 3, 2022 17:25:10 GMT -5
Yeah, Katrina was a bad one. Now the remnants of Ian has stalled and is lashing Delaware, New Jersey, Philadelphia and NYC/Long Island. Its been sitting there for 2 days now. This is what happened to us during hurricane Agnes back in 1972.
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Post by vikingo on Oct 4, 2022 9:40:01 GMT -5
Thank God that hurricanes don't reach South America, but we do have earthquakes, Armenia in 1999 with 1900 dead, 4000 missing and 2/3 of all buildings destroyed. And not too long ago torrential rains, land slides and rivers flooding (Mocóa, Putomayo).
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Post by wildstubby on Oct 4, 2022 19:52:25 GMT -5
vikingo said: And don't forget the mudslide from Bello!
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