Florida might be fucked. These storms will get worse.. and then WORSE. And more frequent.

[MontanaMama]

36. I can tell you that insurance companies are dropping

homeowners here in western Montana because they live in the “wild land urban interface” prone to wild fire. One such homeowner lives a block from me in a neighborhood within the city limits. This is happening everywhere. My former business partner was just dropped by his insurance company on his cabin on Lindbergh Lake. The company cited wildfire danger as the reason. I don’t know what people with mortgages will do if they can’t get insurance.

I live in Missoula. We had a derecho on July 24th of this year. Derecho storms are extremely rare…they bring winds equivalent to a category 2 hurricane. This is a valley surrounded by mountains. The likelihood of a derecho happening here is slim at best. That storm was followed by two additional violent storms which is unheard of in late summer. We used to joke about how we never get extreme weather…but now we do. I’m still dealing with the storm damage to my house.

The numbers of people who have moved here from southern states is staggering…particularly TX. License plates don’t lie. Why are they here? Rumors in the realty community are that it’s climate change.