Here comes ANOTHER hurricane to sunny Miami Florida and I have the house all shuttered up for the third time. I am still missing half my shingles from Katrina and my wood privacy fence is still in pieces so that those will make fun projectiles if Wilma comes to visit.Wish me luck. The Ht room is like Fort Knox right now

i wonder if i had some kind of premonition 3 years ago when i left florida,seems like you guys have been gettin it ever since.i talked to my buddy in daytona,on cell phone,2 times while he was getting hammerred,and i was watching the weather channel.

lot's of luck 'nut.

hey, i just noticed:i'm a desperado.

Good luck!

It's only going to get worse as the seas slowly but surely get warmer. I finally got tired of the exponential insurance premium increases and sold my property in Ft. Lauderdale a few months ago.

When I finally decide to retire somewhere warm, I think it'll be someplace like Aruba which is out of the frequent flier path for hurricanes.

Better start stocking up on twinkies and beer! 8-)

Cheers,

Wouldn't you think anything in the Gulf/Caribbean basin would be pretty vulnerable? If I were looking for someplace warm on the East Coast, I don't think I'd go further south than Savannah, and I'm not real confident about that.

Wingnut--I saw the devastation after Andrew first hand and that got South Florida out of my system for good. Hope things work out really well on this one--let us know how you do.

Thanks for the wishes

I was actually in Homestead for Andrew. The house I was in was totalled. My family and I were under a mattress in the hall and stuff like 2X4s and other debris were flying in through the roof. Andrew literaly sounded like a freight train running between my ears. It was amazing and pretty frightening and thankfully, we were all unhurt.

we evacuated 4 floyd. long hard process

floyd flooded me and put a tree through the roof.andrew caused little damage outside the storm.in my area/
actually,i was awake (and sober) when "andrew" came ashore.

the storm was so far south...i got off easy

Katrina flooded my surrounding neighborhoods just West of me and a lot in Homestead but we were fortunate that way with no flooding in ths house. We did lose about half of our shingles and all of our wood privacy fence which enclosed our back yard--about 340 feet worth.

The roofers are so backed up that my job is not even scheduled to start for three or four weeks from now.They are replacing the whole thing soI guess we se what Wilma does. The fence not until January or so.

I am ready to move...any suggestions?

Pretty soon we will have snow/ice/sleet/slush....brrrrrr But NO hurricanes

Plus, we have LeBron James and "Next year" the Indians may even make the playoffs!

Don't EVEN get me going on the Browns

Wingnut, no place is without its environmental "issues." But if I were really going to start from scratch and didn't have to think about jobs, family, close friends, etc., I'd be thinking about the Shenandoah Valley about 60 miles west of where I live in Virginia. None of the big environmental disasters seem to bother them (except maybe the Civil War), the climate is mild, the scenery is beautiful, some good universities in the neighborhood, Washington shopping and culture is not so far away.

Boston Hub of the Universe Jim