Re: My 2023 hurricane season predictions
Posted by Chris in Tampa on 5/18/2023, 4:42 am
It's nice to have your predictions this year after all you've been through.

I'm surprised at parts of the Bahamas going so long without a direct hit from a hurricane.

Sounds like Fred wants to use his new weather console to view data from his weather station for a storm.

I wouldn't mind an El Nino year. I would like some rain sometime this year if possible, but the tropical systems don't have to stop by. Just give me a sea breeze that doesn't miss my house by miles sometimes. It's so dry at my house.



I'll take a business view of the season and let's say the next few seasons. The insurance market can't handle another major hurricane this season or soon after. If it happens in Florida again soon, we're going to have even more issues here. It's good that people near the water are paying more here now. It's fair. Some things that the legislature did are not so good. I didn't used to insure the contents of my house when it comes to flooding. (other things yes, full coverage, but not flood) Everything is so old and you don't get replacement cost, it's depreciated value. It wasn't worth it. Most of the stuff is around 40 years old. Some stuff neighbors gave to us when they remodeled or sold their homes. We don't have the receipts for that stuff, we didn't buy it. The receipts we do have from 40 years ago are faded and the stuff is now 40 years old. They would pay us next to nothing even with receipts. But with the insurance changes, since I am on Citizens, I was required to get contents coverage now. They want as much money as they can out of you or they want you off Citizens. So I get to pay an extra couple of thousand, in addition to the rate going up like everyone else, and the result is my insurance going up by a whole lot. If I hadn't gotten it, Citizens was going to drop me and no one else would take me I'm sure unless it was a whole lot more expensive. People should not choose to move near the coast. Florida is doing what they can to lessen the ability for people to live near the coast. It's actually not a bad thing, but I am upset with that one part of the law. Or give me replacement cost for that price, lol. I pay more for a year than a check they would cut me for the contents in the whole house. Insurance costs can't be fixed in Florida for people at the coast. Inland people can pay less due to being at less of a risk as compared to the coast when it comes to surge, and to some extent wind, but there is no reducing the costs for people at the coast. There will never stop being hurricanes, they will only be potentially more destructive, so people at the coast are going to pay a lot more.
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