Granath
3768
It really depends on where you live in FL. I live in Sarasota County and pay about $400/yr in hurricane insurance. Of course I am about 10 miles from the beach on a house but still on the Gulf side of I-75, built in 2006 and 26 feet above sea level in a non-flood zone (not even 100 year flood zone). Three of the major shelters for the County are schools that triangulate my house so if this area floods then the only rescue would be from Noah.
For fun:
I am 501.97 ft above sea level.
I saw that earlier today I think on facebook, I am surprised the camera kept working!
RichVR
3772
It’s a GoPro. Sort of a commercial for the brand, ultimately.
Yeah it has a waterproof case. Just really needed to make sure it was secure and powered in one way or another.
— Alan
CraigM
3774
It’s the secured part that’s the surprise bit. That wind and water was literally moving chunks of street.
You mean like 3 posts above that one in this thread? Haha!
Haha, that’s why I always scroll up a few days worth of posts before replying 😜
Enidigm
3778
Hurricane Willa is about to strike the Mexican Pacific coast; it has sustained winds of 160 mph.
… and as if that weren’t enough, there is a tropical storm behind it.
Fortunately the area is relatively sparsely inhabited. It’s going to pass right over the Isla Magdelena islands National Parks… which is still a hard thing for them nonetheless.
It looks like the main hurricane is going to pass between Mazatlan and Tepic (my guesstimated track).
KevinC
3779
My Mexican geography sucks. Are there any large population centers in its path?
CraigM
3780
Mazaltan and Tepic are both in the 300-400 range, and Puerto Vallarta the low 200’s. They’re at the fringe of the hurricane zone mostly, Puerto firmly in the tropical storm band.
Mazaltan seems most at risk here, since it is directly on the coast. There are a number of small coastal communities there it seems, and a decent amount of farm land.
I had to look most of that up, only vaguely having a sense this was small cities.
Enidigm
3781
Aside from the direct hits (maybe) towns of Tecuala and Acaponeta (40k and 30k pop respectively) that are not on the coast but are likely going to get a direct hit otherwise, i’d probably most be worried about flooding in Monterrey several hundred miles away but which looks like the hurricane is headed toward, which has about 4 million people in its metro area, similar to how there’s been so much flooding in Texas over the last couple weeks because of remnant tropical storms.
Fortunately it has to go over mountains to get there so it’s unlikely to be damaging from winds at that point.
First snow flurries here in West Michigan today. Nothing significant yet, of course, but…
Nesrie
3784
Hit 28 last night. I forgot about one of my plants. He’s a goner. One of my sisters said to try and plant it, maybe it will emerge.
Also… no fall, just straight up winter, 28!
CraigM
3785
Dang, wasn’t quite that cold further north. Think we got just to around 32, enough for frost but that’s it.
Still made me bust out the jacket. That was fast, was in the 70s barely over a week ago.
Nesrie
3786
Yeah, it’s like we’re losing fall and spring and just going to extreme winters and summers. It’s not a mostly gradual shift anymore.
KevinC
3787
Conversely, in Utah it has felt to me that we’ve finally been getting some spring and fall weather for a change instead of immediately transitioning from winter cold to fry-an-egg-on-the-sidewalk hot. That’s mostly been at the expense of winter, though.
I remember as a kid, going sledding was something we often did after Thanksgiving dinner. One year, I remember the folks on the news station expressing incredulity that there might not be snow and we could have a “green” Christmas. Now? There’s never snow at Thanksgiving, let alone deep enough to go sledding. No snow on the ground for Christmas isn’t unusual at all. In fact, I’d say it’s right around Christmas that we first see some snow that sticks around.
I’m not that old, but the shifting baseline I’ve experienced in my 40 years here has been something else.
