If a major hits your area this year, would you move?

hookemfins · #21 Postby **hookemfins** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 10:23 am

Staying in Miami. No questions about it.

I have always said, just about every area of the country has some sort of natural disater associated with it.

FlSteel · #22 Postby **FlSteel** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 10:42 am

It will be dependent on what happens to me specifically. Right now I'm doing my best to find insurance since allstate has decided to non-renew me. It just may end up if we get hit here in Jax that it is just too expensive to stay.

#23 Postby **Hybridstorm_November2001** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 11:32 am

If you think about it most areas have gone like 40 years or more with out a direct hit from a Major Hurricane (the Gulf not with standing). There have been seasons (1869 and 1954 for example) were even Eastern New England has received a double whammy by two probable Major hurricanes. It is just the luck of the draw; basically the placement of the Bermuda High and the Eastern Northern American Mean Trough (amongst other factors). I know this is of little comfort to our friends in the Gulf, but the Pattern has to change eventually.

TexasStooge · #24 Postby **TexasStooge** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 12:47 pm

If I live on a Coastline and a Major Hurricane comes, you're darn right I'll be movin'.

Audrey2Katrina · #25 Postby **Audrey2Katrina** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 2:37 pm

TSmith274 wrote:Maybe I'm crazy, and maybe this isn't realistic, but I'll never leave New Orleans... and you know how well our geography deals with hurricanes. I just feel that New Orleans has a chance to be saved, and I'm gonna give it my best shot.

Yall in Florida, I can't really speculate. I guess it comes down to a personal decision with everyone... and I can't second guess any decision that anyone makes for themselves or their family.

I hear ya', TS. We both have roots going VERY deep in these parts; and, like you, I'll doubtless stick around till the Good Lord calls me home. I'm watching every thing going on with the plans for rebuilding the city; but I also hear a plurality, if not a majority, of young folk around here are even as we speak/type/read, making plans to move out of the area as soon as they can. This thing has really shaken up a LOT of people, and the young just aren't as romantically attached to the area as we older residents are--or maybe they're just a lot more pragmatic

A2K

#26 Postby **alicia-w** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 3:01 pm

we're keeping our fingers crossed that the new job situation firms up before the season starts and then we are OUT of here. I dont want to spend one more season on the Gulf Coast.

aquaholic901 · #27 Postby **aquaholic901** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 4:32 pm

I've been considering a move for awhile for other reasons, if a big ones rolls through here it will probably be the final straw for us. I have a lot of ties to Tampa (5th gen native) but there really isn't much left here that appeals to me anymore.

#28 Postby **vbhoutex** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 4:50 pm

I'm in Houston. I have never lived further from the GOM than I do now since 1953 when we moved to Gulf Breeze, FL. I do not think I would live any closer to the coast than I do now, but I never say never!!! If I were in the situation many along the Gulf Coast are right now-Yes it would be a major consideration to move at least more out of harms way.

#29 Postby **Steve** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 5:28 pm

>>If a major hurricane hits metro South Florida this year, would you move?

I don't live there, so it really wouldn't make any difference to me. But from a generic angle, yes. My only other option is rebuilding, and that's a long-shot. The land is still worth something as is possibly my house's shell. Currently I live in a camper on my front lawn, and my wife is getting ready to move to New York state. I'm not going to New York state, but I'm probably gonna be forced to move since I'll have to sell my property. I'm thinking about moving down to the bayous - probably Lafourche Parish if I can't find decent rent around here.

As someone else said, it's a matter of specifically what happens to "me." I still have my job and would prefer to stay in the area, if possible.

Steve

Jagno · #30 Postby **Jagno** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 1:08 am

Didn't leave for good last year after losing my home to Rita and don't plan on it. No matter how many times I have to rebuild, this is my home. As long as lives are spared then what more can you ask for!

#31 Postby **decgirl66** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 4:51 pm

I probably wouldn't move. I love central Florida! Of course, my advantage is, I don't own a home as of yet. I am a renter. But, I still think I would stay. :bday:

cajungal · #32 Postby **cajungal** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 5:55 pm

I seriously doubt it. And it not that I am in love with Louisiana. I am not but it is the only place I ever lived. I have been living in the same boring little town my whole entire life. First off, I don't have the money to relocate anywhere else. And all my family and friends are here. Hurricanes are just a way of life. Everywhere you go there will be some thing weather-wise that may affect your life. To tell you the truth, I rather deal with the threat of hurricanes than shoveling a foot of snow every winter.

#33 Postby **CrazyC83** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 8:41 pm

To be truly safe on the Atlantic coast, you have to get to at least 50°N latitude into subarctic waters, and possibly even farther north...

#34 Postby **gatorcane** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 10:36 pm

looks like many people would move but more would not move...

HurricaneHunter914 · #35 Postby **HurricaneHunter914** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 10:39 pm

Considering I am in Central Florida and most of the major hurricanes we get are cat-2 and below once they get inland................ HECK NO!!! :lol:

#36 Postby **gatorcane** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 10:40 pm

yes but what if you are in South Florida?

Jim Cantore · #37 Postby **Jim Cantore** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 10:42 pm

Odds of a MH hitting me directly, a billion to one, so I wouldnt leave if one of those billion hit

I just jinxed myself you watch lol :eek:

HurricaneHunter914 · #38 Postby **HurricaneHunter914** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 10:42 pm

Still heck no! hurricanes are my passion.

#39 Postby **gatorcane** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 10:43 pm

yes a CAT 5 monster will come up from the SW similar to Charley only worse (bigger area of coverage) and wipe out Central FL as we know it. :eek:

Camille_2_Katrina · #40 Postby **Camille_2_Katrina** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 11:06 pm

boca_chris wrote:yes a CAT 5 monster will come up from the SW similar to Charley only worse (bigger area of coverage) and wipe out Central FL as we know it.

that's a silly thing to say... even think about.

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