Hurricane Ian expected to impact Florida (updates and related discussions)

[Californian Elitist]

Please note i am not downplaying the hurricane.

Watching hurricane coverage over the years to me is odd. People getting supplies and deciding if they should stay etc. then you have the people that say “thank you for rescuing me from my roof, i should have left”

i live in tornado alley and at most you might have an hour to prepare, sometimes minutes not weeks or days. The difference i see is most people that have tornadoes always have survival supplies, water, food some have generators. And we either have storm shelters, or know someone that does. If we didnt and knew an f5 was even possible we would be gone.

I live in earthquake country, where there is no warning at all.

I feel that if I lived in an area where it was prone to strong hurricanes, I would be my best to leave when that time came.

 

[Lilofan]

My brother works for AAA (his office covers part of CA) and I asked him a similar question after a wildfire that resulted in them paying out for hundreds of homes lost, he said they don’t even worry about it because they (AAA) have insurance also, it’s called reinsurance.

If/when their (reinsurance) rates go up they just pass it on to the customer. The big companies are safe.

AAA is not customer friendly. A relative in FL looked for a new policy when his current one company pulled out of the state . AAA criteria

Won't write a new policy if home built before 2003
If roof is more than 15 years old, has to be replaced with new roof

Big companies like Allstate? Cancelled hundreds of policies to limit hurricane claim exposures.

 

[Slpy3270]

Now down to 115 mph.

Yeesh this thing is collapsing fast.

 

[Tom Morrow]

Apparently the eye wall has collapsed so that is also good.

 

[DCBaker]

 

[fotofx]

He also has a video of monorail teal parked inside.

 

[wdwmagic]

1.8 million without power now

 

[wdwmagic]

 

[fgmnt]

The NHC has been warning about this for days, they honestly should have been prepared. I know there is this Florida thing about manning up for a hurricane but seriously, you know it’s coming days in advance. Living in a part of the country where Tornados are frequent and we get maybe 30-60 min before if you’re lucky I just have a hard time with people being unprepared.

I'm really thinking about the fallout from sustained rainfall flooding places that have not been flooded in some people's lifetimes. I live in a city that is a good 100+ miles inland that has suffered flooding from TDs that just sit on top of the watershed and flood the place.

 

[Disney Analyst]

 

[BuddyThomas]

Do you know if electricity generally stays on in the resorts during hurricanes? This may have already been discussed within the seventeen bazillion pages of this thread but I may have missed it. I assume they have generators or something?

 

[DCBaker]

 

[The Mighty Tim]

Don't know about anywhere else, but here at CSR, we seem to have lost all the TV channels, though we still have power.

 

[mightynine]

“Who forgot to turn off the golf ball?”

 

[Br0ckford]

“Who forgot to turn off the golf ball?”

Last one out was on the hook flipping the switch.

 

[lazyboy97o]

You'd hope they built it with hurricanes in mind. Thats silly LCD wall they've got in the middle looks expensive.

It has to meet the same requirements as everything else. It’s Risk Category III so at a minimum it can handle 149 mph gusts. It’s not considered to be within a Wind-Borne Debris Region so it’s not required to have impact rated glazing for that reason, but other conditions would at least require safety glazing that will provide additional protection.

 

[monothingie]

Who knew it could do that?

 

[JenniferS]

Do you know if electricity generally stays on in the resorts during hurricanes? This may have already been discussed within the seventeen bazillion pages of this thread but I may have missed it. I assume they have generators or something?

At CSR when they delivered the flashlights, they told us that if the power fails, it can take up to 15 minutes for the generators to fully power up and to use the flashlights until the lights come back on. That was 2017.

 

[Bullseye1967]

Can someone do a T-Rex next please

 

[Vegas Disney Fan]

I live in earthquake country, where there is no warning at all.

I feel that if I lived in an area where it was prone to strong hurricanes, I would be my best to leave when that time came.

I could see myself staying or going depending on where I lived, anywhere even close to the coast and I’d be gone though, a storm surge is not something I’d ever risk, a newer wind-strapped home in Orlando I’d probably ride it out though.