Hurricane Ida
- Thread starter cstrunk
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You put a gun to my head and give me choice of which path to stand in front of..........it is a derecho all day every day.
Still a Cat 3 over 8.5 hours after first "landfall". Although calling it land is being very generous. It spent many hours after that over very warm swamp/marsh water, which helped it hold intensity for so long.
Most of the Wx community thinks this guy is an asshat and is doing this for clicks. And if not, is at least an idiot for putting himself in the situation he claims to be in.
I don't follow storm chasers so I'm not familiar with him. I do see people thinking it isn't real though so his reputation precedes him.
If you were tweeting that you thought you needed rescue and were in a dire situation... Wouldn't you think you'd at least include your location..? Yeah, me too.
He did in replies. People are calling in trying to get him help. If it turns out he doesn't need it, it's one hell of an elaborate scheme.
I wonder how the hell you buy insurance in some of these places. A tornado might wipe off a mile wide of the map for a few miles and rarely hammers the same place. You can basically set your calendar to New Orleans getting absolutely crushed by a hurricane.
Derecho had weaker winds and dropped about a half inch to an inch of rain for most places. Idk how anyone can think that was worse.
The storm surge off Saylorville Lake was insane. Polk City wa pretty much wiped off the map.
I imagine its not cheap, though IIRC it gets broken down depending on the kind of damage- wind damage would be through your homeowners policy, flood damage (which is often the worst damage), would require flood insurance (which is subsidized, so on some level we're all paying for it)
Building codes in hurricane-prone areas probably play a role in that too. You probably pay more upfront to cover construction that meets those codes.
Katrina weakened to a Cat 3 by the time it made landfall but had such a huge wind field and awful angle of approach that caused the awful storm surge that created the worst damage.
