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Old 10-05-2024 | 03:17 PM
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FL is high& dry 20 miles inland, pretty much storm proof with a generator but still close enough to haul a boat to the coast.
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Old 10-05-2024 | 03:22 PM
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Originally Posted by TexomaPowerboater
I agree, FL is tempting to live there, but I could not run my business while trying to dodge hurricanes and just not worth putting the family at risk. I mean every Florida resident must be on pins and needs during hurricane season watching for when the next hurricane is going to form and head north. We have tornadoes and hail storms, but those can be avoided. You can buy a storm shelter for a reasonable amount of money, but they don't make hurricane shelters.
If you live inland and not near any of the bays or rivers you’re fine if your house is of newer built codes. We used to own a house a 1/2 mile from the beach when we first moved to Naples. I was in Heaven moving from Michigan. I kept my catamaran sailboat on the beach and took my bicycle too watch sunset almost every night.

Now I couldn’t afford the flood insurance and wouldn’t want to deal with the hassle of flooding .
I can say I hate owning a large boat to worry about down here and even though it’s 35 miles inland on dryland a lot of boats blew over in the yard and totaled.

What’s your business? Naples is dying for any qualified respectable busines

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Old 10-05-2024 | 03:31 PM
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Originally Posted by tommymonza
Were you heading after Jersey ? I wanted to move to Hood River Oregon from Sw Florida 25 years ago but most of that area has turned into a Liberal ran schithole

We have an interest in a home 60 miles south of Traverse city that my mother in law lives in but I can’t do an hour to get to civilization and I hate dreary winters .

Also that Witch Gretchen Witless triggers my PTSD when she appears on the TV screen
I’ve been thinking maybe Virginia near Smith Mountain Lake or Maryland on the Chesapeake.
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Old 10-05-2024 | 03:48 PM
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Originally Posted by Craney
I’ve been thinking maybe Virginia near Smith Mountain Lake or Maryland on the Chesapeake.
Taxes taxes taxes Can’t take the personal property taxes you have to pay in Virginia .

I don’t know enough about Maryland to Talk Chit about it yet lol
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Old 10-05-2024 | 04:21 PM
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Originally Posted by Craney
so your saying you don’t miss Pitman and the NJ taxes 😀
I love Jersey and Pitman was great but I am officially a Floridian!

Go Phils!


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Old 10-05-2024 | 04:42 PM
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Originally Posted by Smarty
I love Jersey and Pitman was great but I am officially a Floridian!

Go Phils!
Jayboat is slowly making me retarded from his memes in the political thread , do you think I have a case 😆
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Originally Posted by tommymonza
Jayboat is slowly making me retarded from his memes in the political thread , do you think I have a case 😆
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Old 10-05-2024 | 05:10 PM
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Originally Posted by TexomaPowerboater
I agree, FL is tempting to live there, but I could not run my business while trying to dodge hurricanes and just not worth putting the family at risk. I mean every Florida resident must be on pins and needs during hurricane season watching for when the next hurricane is going to form and head north. We have tornadoes and hail storms, but those can be avoided. You can buy a storm shelter for a reasonable amount of money, but they don't make hurricane shelters.

Pins and needles..........no
I just moved out of a house I owned for 22 years, I put the shutters up 6X in 22 years which means it was going to be a close call. Now when I say "I" that means I got day labor to install the shutters for $100 each guy.
That house was about 4 miles from the coast and concrete from the ground to the 2nd floor (no wood walls).. I never evacuated and have never had so much as a missing roof tile. We lost power for a couple of days, until 2004 when I installed a whole house generator and since we had natural gas it never ran out then we never lost power again. I gave 3 cords to 3 neighbors and my generator gave them enough to power a fridge, fan, light whatever. Hurricanes usually bring out the best in people.

If you trim your trees, do a little prep work, park your cars in the garage then your "damage" is usually pretty minor. That being said, if you live in a low area flooding can be devastating



The storms are pretty well predicted, new house is 2023 built, all impact glass so I won't need to install shutters.

Someone I know looked at this house recently, its a beautiful build BUT its on a barrier island, the front elevation is literally 3 ft higher than the intracoastal and the width of the barrier island there probably isn't 500 feet. This is a stunning home but no way would I buy it, that's going to be wet in any sizable storm! The person looking at it was stunned by the low price, if it was an hour south in Palm Beach the house would be 5X the price.
7916 S Ocean Dr, Jensen Beach, FL 34957: $7,489,000 | realtor.com®


Florida is fine, just think ahead before you buy anything.

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Old 10-05-2024 | 05:14 PM
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I have 2 friends that lost everything from the hurricane. 1 in South Pasadena and the other in Treasure Island. Water was up 6-8' on the walls.

A neighbor told me her sister is missing in NC. Her nephew went to check on his parents and the house is gone, nothing there but a slab. No cars, no mailboxes, no sheds, no houses on the whole block. 5 year old house so it should have been in good shape.
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Old 10-05-2024 | 05:20 PM
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Originally Posted by hogie roll
Parents got 3’ in the house, st Pete beach. Weren’t allowed to go out there until Saturday late afternoon. Flooding was Thursday night. Kind of a late start to get the house cleaned out and dried out.

Contents uninsured to manage premium and our experience with a total loss on a house in a tornado was that insurance barely pays on contents anyways.

My buddy is my insurance guy. My old policy covered like 300K in contents, so Greg says: Would you take 75K for everything in your house right now? Keeping in mind the exclusions: art, jewelry, electronics (over $2000), guns, tools, etc. NONE of that stuff would be insured anyway. He said if you have average furniture the insurance company will want to pay you garage sale prices for 5-10 yr old couches, bedroom sets whatever. He said keep contents to a minimum, they don't pay anyway in the event of a claim.

My sister in law used to live in Snell Isle over by the Vinoy golf course. High tide/ heavy rain she would have a flooded street and if a car blew down the street the "wake" would crash at her front door. I can't imagine a 3 foot flood
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