marsman Posted September 28, 2022 Share Posted September 28, 2022 I just hear the term "Orlando's gonna get coned" on TWC. I've heard "in the cone" but not "coned". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-L-E-K Posted September 28, 2022 Share Posted September 28, 2022 lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed, snow and hurricane fan Posted September 28, 2022 Share Posted September 28, 2022 Texas, after insurers wouldn't write policies in coastal counties after Celia mandated any home insurers in the state had to form a pool to cover them. Texas Windstorm Insurance Agency. They have building code standards, and won't write policies if they is an established storm (Ian is nowhere near, but no policies written since 9/26/2022). I assume Florida has something similar, although only a small area of Texas needs state mandated insurance for hurricane winds and and Florida, the whole state needs it. Main thread, insured losses may push poorly funded insurance companies under. If that happens, I wonder if companies will need a minimum reserve to pay claims. Insurance rates are sure to climb, even in areas not severely impacted in Florida. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lilj4425 Posted September 28, 2022 Share Posted September 28, 2022 13 minutes ago, Ed, snow and hurricane fan said: And people were weenie-ing anyone who mentioned Cat 5. Technically a Cat 4 still, but it is pushing it. Yeah. What’s 2 mph anyways? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JC-CT Posted September 28, 2022 Share Posted September 28, 2022 1 minute ago, lilj4425 said: Yeah. What’s 2 mph anyways? A light breeze 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whineminster Posted September 28, 2022 Share Posted September 28, 2022 Time for me took at properties in Port Charlotte.....good discounts to be had 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jtm12180 Posted September 28, 2022 Share Posted September 28, 2022 A lot of people been calling out others with their “schlong” ratings on posts about a potential cat 5…hopefully those will quiet now because Ian basically for all intents and purposes a cat 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catdaddyfalcon15 Posted September 28, 2022 Share Posted September 28, 2022 honestly just stunned rn. Ian is a true "I" i tell ya that my friends. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amped Posted September 28, 2022 Share Posted September 28, 2022 That would be the most damaging surge since Katrina. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-L-E-K Posted September 28, 2022 Share Posted September 28, 2022 fun fact cape coral has 400 miles of navigable waterways, more than any other city on earth gonna be fine 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-L-E-K Posted September 28, 2022 Share Posted September 28, 2022 just now seeing rotonda, lol what a dumb ass part of the country 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LawdogGRNJ Posted September 28, 2022 Share Posted September 28, 2022 On a (slim) positive note, Ian will wipe the FL drought map clean.... https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/CurrentMap/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?FL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mappy Posted September 28, 2022 Share Posted September 28, 2022 4 minutes ago, A-L-E-K said: just now seeing rotonda, lol what a dumb ass part of the country all those golf courses Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buddy1987 Posted September 28, 2022 Share Posted September 28, 2022 4 minutes ago, A-L-E-K said: just now seeing rotonda, lol what a dumb ass part of the country I stayed there as recent as this past Memorial Day weekend in May. Pretty out in the boonies but def some very nice houses around the area. Port Charlotte the most built up. Gonna be sad to see some of the pics most likely coming out of there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lilj4425 Posted September 28, 2022 Share Posted September 28, 2022 We didn’t learn any lessons from Katrina in New Orleans did we? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-L-E-K Posted September 28, 2022 Share Posted September 28, 2022 trivial pursuit ass development Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikeymac5306 Posted September 28, 2022 Share Posted September 28, 2022 Which site has the storm chasers? Is it live storm chasers or another site? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whineminster Posted September 28, 2022 Share Posted September 28, 2022 12 minutes ago, A-L-E-K said: just now seeing rotonda, lol what a dumb ass part of the country Lol looks cool on satellite, but a pita to navigate. I thought it would be cheap homes being it looks so sparse, but it's not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-L-E-K Posted September 28, 2022 Share Posted September 28, 2022 that's why the losses will be so catastrophic, get hyped Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlizzardNole Posted September 28, 2022 Share Posted September 28, 2022 16 minutes ago, A-L-E-K said: just now seeing rotonda, lol what a dumb ass part of the country Never seen it and just looked at an aerial shot. What the heck...looks like Earth was taken over by the Borg 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lilj4425 Posted September 28, 2022 Share Posted September 28, 2022 1 minute ago, BlizzardNole said: Never seen it and just looked at an aerial shot. What the heck...looks like Earth was taken over by the Borg The hurricane is gonna hit there dead on so the aliens can be beamed down from Planet Flaflufa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlizzardNole Posted September 28, 2022 Share Posted September 28, 2022 14 minutes ago, Mikeymac5306 said: Which site has the storm chasers? Is it live storm chasers or another site? The link below from Heavy.com has a number of working webcams and links to some chasers Links to cams and chasers 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sojitodd Posted September 28, 2022 Share Posted September 28, 2022 Well stayed up till 2am to see the latest. Hardly expected to see this go from 120 to 155 mph now. Damn. How is Tampa going to fare?-is this thing coming in far enough south to spare them the worst? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tezeta Posted September 28, 2022 Share Posted September 28, 2022 1 hour ago, Ed, snow and hurricane fan said: Texas, after insurers wouldn't write policies in coastal counties after Celia mandated any home insurers in the state had to form a pool to cover them. Texas Windstorm Insurance Agency. They have building code standards, and won't write policies if they is an established storm (Ian is nowhere near, but no policies written since 9/26/2022). I assume Florida has something similar, although only a small area of Texas needs state mandated insurance for hurricane winds and and Florida, the whole state needs it. Main thread, insured losses may push poorly funded insurance companies under. If that happens, I wonder if companies will need a minimum reserve to pay claims. Insurance rates are sure to climb, even in areas not severely impacted in Florida. Taxpayers are going to have to bail out coastal richers. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlizzardNole Posted September 28, 2022 Share Posted September 28, 2022 4 minutes ago, sojitodd said: Well stayed up till 2am to see the latest. Hardly expected to see this go from 120 to 155 mph now. Damn. How is Tampa going to fare?-is this thing coming in far enough south to spare them the worst? Yeah it will spare Tampa/St Pete the worst as the counter-clockwise winds north of the center will be blowing toward the bay and Gulf. A hit at or just north would have been devastating as it would have pushed a monster storm surge right into that shallow, funnel-shaped bay. There will be some wind damage but Tampa mostly dodged a huge bullet 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sojitodd Posted September 28, 2022 Share Posted September 28, 2022 44 minutes ago, A-L-E-K said: fun fact cape coral has 400 miles of navigable waterways, more than any other city on earth gonna be fine This is worse than Rotunda IMO. And it is huge by comparison. A nightmare from an urban development pov, and now it will be a damn mess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-L-E-K Posted September 28, 2022 Share Posted September 28, 2022 Quote Leonard Rosen, the marketing dynamo from Baltimore who invented Cape Coral, was a visionary and a rogue. He and his brother Jack got rich selling an anti-baldness tonic made from lanolin, a wool grease secreted by sheep; they promoted it with some of America’s first infomercials, featuring the immortal tagline: “Have you ever seen a bald sheep?” Quote The Rosens’ real innovation was selling Cape Coral as frenetically as they sold their magic hair products. They gave away homes on game shows like “The Price Is Right.” They brought celebrities like Bob Hope and Anita Bryant to promote the dream. They had telemarketers hawking lots with Glengarry Glen Ross-style blarney. They sent sales reps across the ocean—Gloria Raso Tate’s dad pitched paradise in London and Rome—and planted touts at Florida hotels and attractions, luring tourists to free steak dinners interrupted by salesmen shouting, “Lot No. 18 is sold!” and paid ringers, yelling, “I just bought one!” Prospective buyers were offered free stays at the company motel—where rooms were bugged to help salesmen customize their pitches—and taken on company Cessnas for “fly-and-buys” to see lots the pilots reserved by dropping sacks of flour from the sky. Sometimes the fly-and-buyers ended up with marshy lots nowhere near the drained ones where the sacks landed, but for all the fibs and propaganda, Cape Coral really did boom. Quote “People say, ‘Are you crazy, living in Florida with all those hurricanes?’” Tattersall told me as we drifted through a slow-speed manatee zone. “Come on. Does this feel crazy?” He recalled a recent outing with his grandchildren where they saw dolphins and stingrays, then watched the thrashing as some jacks fed on a school of mullet. “That’s what life is about, right?” I asked him whether he thought Irma would scare away the next generation of newcomers, and he scoffed. “No way,” he said. Then he reconsidered: “Look, if we get 15 feet of storm surge, holy shit, that would take out Cape Coral.” Another pause. He sipped his Bud Light. “Eh, even then, no way.” https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/10/20/fastest-growing-city-america-florida-cape-coral-215724/ we are about to be blessed watching this cursed community get wrecked before our eyes 1 2 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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LibertyBell Posted September 28, 2022 Share Posted September 28, 2022 1 hour ago, Ed, snow and hurricane fan said: And people were weenie-ing anyone who mentioned Cat 5. Technically a Cat 4 still, but it is pushing it. Uhm it could easily get to Cat 5 before landfall. 2 mph to go, just like with Michael and it was upgraded in post. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LibertyBell Posted September 28, 2022 Share Posted September 28, 2022 1 hour ago, Ed, snow and hurricane fan said: And people were weenie-ing anyone who mentioned Cat 5. Technically a Cat 4 still, but it is pushing it. The difference between Cat 4 and Cat 5 is miniscule anyway. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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