Isabel is finally here.

[Maine Mary]

And she's boring*. Just a slight breeze and some rain :boring: I'm sorry for those of you who might have suffered property damage and I don't mean to make light of it in your case(s)if you have worked your butt off all of your life to get there. But if that is the case, I bet you are one of the exceptions.

I've gotta be honest. From my perspective, I've seen much ado about nothing. I admit I'm seeing the situation from afar but is this not unexpected? Didn't people on the shores of an ocean expect it to go mad at least once in their lifetime? And BTW are their ANY middle income people able to afford shorefront property (or anything close to it) anymore anyway? If they are well off enough to live there, I assume they are well enough off to have kept up w/their home insurance. Which means big payouts, which also means rate hikes for the rest of us. :-(

[BurtWorm]

1. I don't remember seeing a lot of hurricane action up in Maine, Mary.

Just once do I remember one actually making any noise in my 12 years or so of living there. The worst it did was turn the pond behind our house a bright orange.

[Maine Mary]

5. My father has a camp in Smithfield

On North Pond. For some weird reason his particular spot is a hotbed for storms. Storms that, obviously anyone outside of Maine would consider small, but still, I've seen many occaisions where trees would come down on neighbor's homes and cars and once we found our dog's house 3 camps away. CMP finally came out and cut all of the big trees down cause they seemed to be in a precarious area. :shrug:

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

2. If it's declared a disaster area..it means low interest FEMA loans

for people who probably ALSO got low interest FEMA loans during the one a couple years back.

I have nothing bt sympathy for people dealing with an act of nature and as I wish to be close to the ocean..I certainly don't begrudge them living there.

You DO bring up a legitimate issue though and that is that ONCE someone gets ONE loan from FEMA to rebuild ...there should be a moratorium on that area and RELOCATION should be considered for people living in areas prone to frequent disaster such as flood plains or the like.

[Mel]

6. they do

there's a area around Crabtree in Raleigh that after the last FEMA pay out (flood) FEMA told them if you rebuild there again you'll eat it and we won't help you again.

My friends sister didn't rebuild her home there as a lot of others didn't from what I understand.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

7. I think they are doing it now..

there's little hell holes in Texas built on flood plains that have been repeatedly rebuilt..the ONE issue I have with Bushies policies is they are also trying to force damns on areas where to do so would have huge impacts on the quality of life DOWNSTREAM.

[Mel]

3. Well when Fran hit us here in NC

Raleigh the City of Oaks we got screwed some even died and it's not near the sea. Hurricanes don't always just rip up the beach front property they rip up the inland and the water surges flood certain parts of the state. I do agree that building a house on the oceanfront and not expecting the worst is stupid and the rest of us shouldn't have to pay for it. But whatcha gonna do :shrug: I don't have an answer other than to say screw em' and well that does sound kinda mean not everyone that lives around the sea is rich my Uncle was a shrimper many moons ago and he wasn't rich.

[TSIAS]

4. It's nice to be unaffected for once

Down here in South Florida, we have to get prepared for a lot of big storms.

[DoNotRefill]

8. the problem with isabel...

is that it did a shitload of damage inland, too. If the only people who were affected were people with oceanfront property, who'd care? They can afford it. But my mother-in-law has a tree in her living room right now. Her house has under 900 sq. ft. total and is far (~20 miles) from the coast in an urban area. My mom is over 100 miles from the coast, and still can't get out of her community because of all the trees and live power lines down. She's not rich either, so it'll take a while to get it cleared.

It may have sprinkled on you, but it pissed HARD on us. We expect it to take at least a week to get electricity back on, much less all the damage repaired.

[LynneSin]

9. Delaware has a town that 140 of 165 homes built there were just declared..

uninhabitable. This wasn't from Isabel, this was from the severe flash floods we got like 3 days earlier.

If Fema gave me a second chance I'd like to think I"d be smart and build my home someplace safer

[GalleryGod]

10. Hi,MARY!!!!!!!!!!! NightNurse & I Got Run Outta Hatteras Island!

Good old Isabel kicked the Outer Banks arse!

Glad to see you back!

:hug: