I like that site! I’ve had access to that info for my area at work for a good 20 years, but it’s nice you can look it up anywhere so easily now.
Not many people look at stormwater when purchasing their homes. They are more concerned with looks, etc. I sat on our stormwater complaint committee for many many years. You better believe it’s one of the first things I look at. That cute little creek can become a raging River in a flash. And you’d be surprised how many people think the city is responsible for their home’s stormwater issues.
My friend still has no internet, so relies on the radio for all his news. He says Kamala offered people $750. The residents see this as a big insult as immigrants receive so much more. Without flood insurance, rebuilding homes is devastating.
The people with helicopters. Who offered to help were told not to, or risk jail.
The news reported 300 close calls with flight collisions and a private pilot shut down the Asheville regional airport for hours by not putting down landing gear. As such, I can see why they only want first responders helping right now in the air.
How can Kamala be offering any money? She’s not the president.
I asked the same question, and he said he heard her speech replayed on the radio.
Thanks for the clarification about the helicopters.
I think the residents are frustrated. Groceries and gas can only be bought with cash. Yesterday he could finally use a credit card.
And unfortunately, the political stunts designed to make residents believe that one candidate is making things worse & one can make them better only serves to bring them unnecessary stress and anxiety.
You can tell your friend FEMA is giving an emergency $750 to people who have lost everything so they can get basics. It’s not a payment for what they’ve lost but a way to tide them over because the situation is so dire on the ground and payouts always take a while. It must be traumatic to be in the middle of such a cataclysm, plus the scale of it - just heard from friends in Illinois, well out of the hurricane’s path, who nevertheless lost trees.
Just watching the news and they said Florida has closed a lot of schools in preparation for Milton. Right now it looks like it is going to go right across the middle of the state. Again.
We have friends coming up here from Anna Maria Island. Their house is new and is a fortress but the flooding will be a big worry. I agree with adding Milton the the thread title.
We have friends driving from Atlanta to the east coast of florida tomorrow. They are concerned that evacuation orders could affect traffic. They actually went grocery shopping here. They are expecting a lot of wind and rain, but hopefully that’s it.
Another friend lives in Ft. Myers. I think she is under an evacuation order…again.
My sister is in Tampa. She and her husband are evacuating (again) to Atlanta. They fared okay during Helene but many in their neighborhood experienced devastating flooding (their neighborhood had never flooded before). I was supposed to meet my college Freshmen there on Wednesday for her Fall Break. She is now flying home to Seattle instead.
They might be okay tomorrow, but I’ll bet that if they are evacuating, they might be doing ‘contraflow’ (both side of highway going the same direction) by Tues. It looks like they’ll want everyone to go to GA as the map shows the path hitting the Atlantic coast by Wednesday, from Fort Lauderdale to Jax.
Smart to shop where they know they’ll have food. Things get pretty bad at the stores in FL if someone even whispers ‘hurricane’ and when they have two in a row there is no bottled water or chips or beer (the essentials).
I just flew back to CT from Tampa today. The streets by my house were piled high with everything people had to remove from their flooded homes…… wood floors, furniture, refrigerators, bags and bags of items that were probably bedding and clothes. I passed near the county dump and the line was very backed up. I heard a rumor that they closed the dump to non-professionals because they couldn’t handle the traffic. People are really worried that if this doesn’t get removed from the streets before Wednesday, this is all going to become projectiles.
Today’s flight seemed full of people escaping the storm. My seatmate had an amazing outlook. She lives in a mobile home slightly northwest of Tampa, and left only with her important papers and a few clothes. She expects to lose everything else, yet she was grateful for the ability to leave and stay with her CT sister.
On another note, Tampa has set aside parking garages for people who have electric cars and they can park there for free to avoid saltwater contamination from storm surges. Evidently several electric cars have caught fire after being flooded with saltwater.
This is such a virtually non-issue (but glad Tampa is making arrangements for EVs)
" However, only 21 electric vehicles are known to have caught fire, far fewer than what officials initially warned.
Here’s what to know about whether flooding impacts electric vehicles. Experts say it is not necessarily more likely for an electric vehicle to catch fire due to flooding with only a small percentage of registered EVs doing so, according to USA TODAY analyses. However for every 100,000 gas-powered cars, 1,530 fires are reported a year primarily due to fuel leaks or crashes.
If flooding actually does cause an electric vehicle to catch fire, it is likely because collision or water intrusion has caused its battery to short circuit.
This rare event is called a thermal runaway, when the battery cell discharges energy and heats up from one cell to the next, causing a fire. "
The batteries have some reinforcement thing. If that gets cracked, water can possibly get in. I just made a large donation of stuff to a neighbor who is taking supplies down to South GA. Her driveway was very steep and my car slightly hit the bottom. Hope I didn’t damage my battery reinforcement!!
One problem with hurricane insurance is that it only covers damage from wind and not water. For the water, you need flood insurance, which very few people have.
