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Better Days Ahoy

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24. I started my underwriting career in New Orleans. Yeah.

Reply to malaise (Reply #13)

Fri Nov 11, 2022, 03:43 PM

Nov 2022

The city where little kids get hurricane tracking maps with their Whopper Juniors during hurricane season.
And our office's file clerk (this was the '80s) taught me about hurricane meteorology by drawing high and low pressure systems on the back of a notepad.

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Shocking drone video shows storm destruction along Volusia County coastline [View all] Brenda Nov 2022 OP

Get thee to the greatest page malaise Nov 2022 #1

Wow! It says something about having concrete storm walls. The metal ones just broke apart. TheBlackAdder Nov 2022 #42

Billions in damages...some luxury beach houses teetering... brush Nov 2022 #2

THIS malaise Nov 2022 #3

Yes, and it did that much damage. brush Nov 2022 #6

It did genxlib Nov 2022 #16

No sympathy, empathy or anypathy Better Days Ahoy Nov 2022 #5

Not true malaise Nov 2022 #9

Ah, that's right! I've been out of the Commercial underwriting world for too long Better Days Ahoy Nov 2022 #11

I only remember because I live in the Atlantic hurricane malaise Nov 2022 #13

What is the hurricane poem? panader0 Nov 2022 #14

Well the poem actually vindicates Better Days Ahoy😀 malaise Nov 2022 #21

thanks panader0 Nov 2022 #22

I started my underwriting career in New Orleans. Yeah. Better Days Ahoy Nov 2022 #24

And yes the old mariners poem does say October malaise Nov 2022 #25

I think we're both cool for even having this nerdy chat Better Days Ahoy Nov 2022 #35

LOL- now that is cool malaise Nov 2022 #36

Great! Let's go! Better Days Ahoy Nov 2022 #37

Ha😀 malaise Nov 2022 #38

I Guess There Are 3 Strategies modrepub Nov 2022 #10

Yes, private insurance is fed up. Better Days Ahoy Nov 2022 #27

Four dead, 49 properties deemed unsafe including four malaise Nov 2022 #4

That's the point, isn't it? It will only get worse Better Days Ahoy Nov 2022 #7

This message was self-deleted by its author Better Days Ahoy Nov 2022 #8

No sympathy Deminpenn Nov 2022 #12

Ian did a lot of that - Nicole finished what Ian began Blues Heron Nov 2022 #15

Interesting that the homes with fortified sea walls or rip rap Bristlecone Nov 2022 #17

Sea walls and rip rap are temporary solutions. hunter Nov 2022 #20

See the Netherlands. Hermit-The-Prog Nov 2022 #29

Netherlands is a first world nation. hunter Nov 2022 #31

Good point. Hermit-The-Prog Nov 2022 #32

My first thought was "I'll bet those walls cost a ton" Bristlecone Nov 2022 #33

look at how narrow the strip of land is onethatcares Nov 2022 #18

Looks like every property with a sea wall failure was destroyed. mn9driver Nov 2022 #19

Lots more here malaise Nov 2022 #23

Sea level there has risen 1 foot in past century with most of that just in last 30 years wishstar Nov 2022 #26

I don't care how many billions of dollars drmeow Nov 2022 #28

At that link there is another video from treestar Nov 2022 #39

Socialism for the "worthy" drmeow Nov 2022 #43

How many have insurance premiums higher than the mortgage? Stinky The Clown Nov 2022 #30

Probably quite a few. Xolodno Nov 2022 #34

That's my old stomping grounds Ahpook Nov 2022 #40

I think rebuilding on site is crazy. Ilsa Nov 2022 #41