OT: Thread About Nothing (part # who cares)

[Bleedred]

Was it rain accumulation or storm surge?

Storm surge

But we've had a ton of rain here. I think I saw Tampa hit a record rainfall for the year already like a month ago.

I'm not in Tampa, but it's not too far from me.

 

[My3Sons]

Storm surge

But we've had a ton of rain here. I think I saw Tampa hit a record rainfall for the year already like a month ago.

I'm not in Tampa, but it's not too far from me.

Isn’t storm surge a bit more dangerous because of the saltwater? I’m relieved you emerged unscathed. It looked scary on tv.

 

[Bleedred]

Isn’t storm surge a bit more dangerous because of the saltwater? I’m relieved you emerged unscathed. It looked scary on tv.

The neighborhood where my friends are is right on the bay and just a quarter mile from the gulf. They’ve done all kinds of stuff to their place to be able to absorb these storms, because there’s sometimes two of them every year it seems. At least once per year. They just had the one in August when I was out of town on vacation.

 

[njdevils1982]

A near miss. That’s a relief.

c'mon man,

 

[My3Sons]

c'mon man,

I know there were at least 45 deaths associated with the storm. It’s dangerous no matter how you view it hut I was worried about our fellow posters having been through a direct hit from a storm just a couple of weeks ago.

 

[Mr Bojanglez]

A fried of mine JUST bought a condo in siesta key. Super close to the beach (like 30 seconds walking). Pretty much gutted.

Lucky for them they'll get to basically renovate the entire thing with insurance money. But I do remember talking to him like a month ago.... he said "yea we had water one time, but that never happens". I didn't want to get into climate change.... just let him figure it out. Obviously he's got the money to deal.

 

[My3Sons]

A fried of mine JUST bought a condo in siesta key. Super close to the beach (like 30 seconds walking). Pretty much gutted.

Lucky for them they'll get to basically renovate the entire thing with insurance money. But I do remember talking to him like a month ago.... he said "yea we had water one time, but that never happens". I didn't want to get into climate change.... just let him figure it out. Obviously he's got the money to deal.

It’s part of thr deal close to the water down here. You can flood if you are too close to an inland waterway

 

[njdevils1982]

I know there were at least 45 deaths associated with the storm. It’s dangerous no matter how you view it hut I was worried about our fellow posters having been through a direct hit from a storm just a couple of weeks ago.

survivor.

no, not eye of the tiger but classic 80s.... classic cheese

 

[Bleedred]

survivor.

no, not eye of the tiger but classic 80s.... classic cheese

I can’t even recall “is this love” by them, and immediately was thinking “Wait a minute! How have I went almost 40 years thinking that was Whitesnake?” Until I realized it was a completely different song, and the one I know (the more famous song) is Whitesnake.

I’m sure I’ve heard the Survivor version and would know it if I heard it, but I didn’t click on it.

 

[TheUnseenHand]

A fried of mine JUST bought a condo in siesta key. Super close to the beach (like 30 seconds walking). Pretty much gutted.

Lucky for them they'll get to basically renovate the entire thing with insurance money. But I do remember talking to him like a month ago.... he said "yea we had water one time, but that never happens". I didn't want to get into climate change.... just let him figure it out. Obviously he's got the money to deal.

Meanwhile me who has never had a claim will have his rates raised to compensate for the insurance companies having to pay for all these natural disasters...

 

[My3Sons]

Meanwhile me who has never had a claim will have his rates raised to compensate for the insurance companies having to pay for all these natural disasters...

It depends where you look be but on some level that’s true.

 

[Bleedred]

I did listen to those Survivor songs or at least a bit and piece of them, and I knew them upon listening. Apparently Survivor's Is This Love is older than the more famous Whitesnake song of the same name. Or at least the album it was on was released about 5 months earlier than the Whitesnake one.

The Survivor album with that song came out in October of 1986, while the Whitesnake album with that song came out in March of 1987.

I didn't even realize Survivor had a lead singer change after the Eye of the Tiger album. Stallone obviously still enjoyed them, as Burning Heart (with the new singer) was used for the scene in Rocky IV where Rocky and his entourage arrive in Russia. The only Survivor songs I really knew were their two songs in the Rocky movies, though Eye of the Tiger is HUGE and you could have heard that anywhere without watching Rocky III or IV.

Eye of the Tiger has a really sweet breakdown in the intro for an 80s radio rock song.

 

[Saugus]

Meanwhile me who has never had a claim will have his rates raised to compensate for the insurance companies having to pay for all these natural disasters...

That's how insurance works. Premiums from all are pooled together to compensate the losses of the few who are unlucky.

If there are more catastrophes, property and casualty insurers need to raise rates in order to pay claims and stay solvent. It sucks, but otherwise the financial math simply doesn't add up.

 

[My3Sons]

That's how insurance works. Premiums from all are pooled together to compensate the losses of the few who are unlucky.

If there are more catastrophes, property and casualty insurers need to raise rates in order to pay claims and stay solvent. It sucks, but otherwise the financial math simply doesn't add up.

It’s like any other industry. They raise fees to cover their costs.

 

[TheUnseenHand]

That's how insurance works. Premiums from all are pooled together to compensate the losses of the few who are unlucky.

If there are more catastrophes, property and casualty insurers need to raise rates in order to pay claims and stay solvent. It sucks, but otherwise the financial math simply doesn't add up.

Insurance is a scam. The math never adds up. Most folks who lost everything and will be making claims won't get anywhere near the value of what they lost. Because most of the money insurance companies spend is spent figuring out how not to provide you the service you pay for.

 

[Bleedred]

Well, where I work suffered extensive damage from Helene. Pretty much just flooding, it's Gulf front. And the fence by the pool was swarmed by water and fell over and destroyed.

The hotel is closed at least through the entire month of October, probably longer. They have insurance, but there's going to need to be a lot of work done to the first floor before we can reopen.

I'm being kept on payroll, at least for now. I've mostly been helping with the clean up. Every room on the first floor seems to have some kind of water damage at the very least. Especially on the Gulf side of the building. A lot of the furniture and beds in the first floor rooms were destroyed and so was the office.

It's a mess over here. This is the only job I've had since I've lived here.

My checks will be smaller, but I won't be working as many days either. I've worked 7 days a week for a long time, but it's not like 8-10 hours all 7 days. There's a couple of days where I just stop in for a couple of hours a day. At least the house has been paid off since I bought it, so I'm not too worried there, and I live pretty simple.

 

[My3Sons]

Well, where I work suffered extensive damage from Helene. Pretty much just flooding, it's Gulf front. And the fence by the pool was swarmed by water and fell over and destroyed.

The hotel is closed at least through the entire month of October, probably longer. They have insurance, but there's going to need to be a lot of work done to the first floor before we can reopen.

I'm being kept on payroll, at least for now. I've mostly been helping with the clean up. Every room on the first floor seems to have some kind of water damage at the very least. Especially on the Gulf side of the building. A lot of the furniture and beds in the first floor rooms were destroyed and so was the office.

It's a mess over here. This is the only job I've had since I've lived here.

My checks will be smaller, but I won't be working as many days either. I've worked 7 days a week for a long time, but it's not like 8-10 hours all 7 days. There's a couple of days where I just stop in for a couple of hours a day. At least the house has been paid off since I bought it, so I'm not too worried there, and I live pretty simple.

With your skills I would be shocked if you couldn't get a pretty well paying job. At this point, folks with actual repair and mechanical skills seem in short supply.

 

[Bleedred]

With your skills I would be shocked if you couldn't get a pretty well paying job. At this point, folks with actual repair and mechanical skills seem in short supply.

Thanks

But I definitely don’t wanna do any kind of hard labor job anymore. I left that behind 14 years ago? I know my profile still says carpenter.

When I moved here in 2011 I wanted to stay in the trade, but the trade was really a bust down here at the time, so I took the job doing maintenance at the hotel. They knew me from staying here when I visited before I moved down here. And I was already beat up from years of that. My time doing that was much like that of a professional athlete. Do it from 18 to 35, make my money and get out. I didn’t intend for it to be that way; that’s just how it went.

If I had to do that type of work these days (especially since my union book has long expired, so I’d be making trash for how hard it is) I’d be like Vito from the sopranos when he went to New Hampshire and kept trying to guess the time of day, which was always much earlier than he though it was.

And I really don’t at all relate to the people in the trades at all anymore. I know they’re full of certain political persuasions that I do not subscribe to.

 

[njdevils1982]

for anyone interested.

NOFX are playing their final shows friday saturday and sunday in LA and are live streaming them on their website

 

[Killing Joke]

And got another storm brewing up in the gulf and models showing it heading to Tampa as a strong Hurricane.

Cool, just f***ing cool.

 

[My3Sons]

And got another storm brewing up in the gulf and models showing it heading to Tampa as a strong Hurricane.

Cool, just f***ing cool.

This is Kate in the season for this.

 

[Bleedred]

This is Kate in the season for this.

Unfortunately they still seem to be common here at least in early October.

 

[Killing Joke]

Unfortunately they still seem to be common here at least in early October.

This is Kate in the season for this.

Yea and this one is not good. I'm 4 miles give or take off the water and my area is 16 feet above sea level. Not sure how far the surge will push in, but not looking to test it.

Just hope my building stays up, doesn't flood to the second level, and am able to get back into it as soon as possible if it does flood here.

I'm in evacuation zone C, so, idk. Got a hotel booked in the upper and southern portions of the state depending on how it tracks and then I'll leave.

 

[Bleedred]

Yea and this one is not good. I'm 4 miles give or take off the water and my area is 16 feet above sea level. Not sure how far the surge will push in, but not looking to test it.

Just hope my building stays up, doesn't flood to the second level, and am able to get back into it as soon as possible if it does flood here.

I'm in evacuation zone C, so, idk. Got a hotel booked in the upper and southern portions of the state depending on how it tracks and then I'll leave.

I’m not too worried about my house being destroyed by it, though it’s by no means unbreakable. But the last one may have taken out my place of work, and that one didn’t even make landfall anywhere near here. And my friends live over on the water. I don’t, and I have enough elevation where I am that I typically don’t get flooded, but this could be pretty bad for much of the area.

 

[My3Sons]

Yea and this one is not good. I'm 4 miles give or take off the water and my area is 16 feet above sea level. Not sure how far the surge will push in, but not looking to test it.

Just hope my building stays up, doesn't flood to the second level, and am able to get back into it as soon as possible if it does flood here.

I'm in evacuation zone C, so, idk. Got a hotel booked in the upper and southern portions of the state depending on how it tracks and then I'll leave.

Leaving to avoid the storm is the safest thing. Fingers crossed it isn’t as dangerous as the last one.