as much sympathy as I have for anyone involved in a calamity, I DO really, really question these people who live on the side of a big river, keep building in the paths of hurricanes, and frankly anybody who decides to live in hurricane path. It's not a pejorative viewpoint, more just struggling to understand it. I've thought of a lot of places we might move over the next few years, but crossed off a lot too due to that .... It's just high on my priority list "a place without too many natural disasters", and these places that are like #1, I question how they're so popular to live in. I think people just assume modern technology/engineering will save them but......that's unfortunately not always the case. Mother Nature is one, powerful, mother-
You can't totally avoid everything, but some places are just so popular and they get blown away every 2 years like clockwork. I don't really blame Allstate, Progressive, etc for pulling out. And unfortunately the % of places that are high risk seem to be growing. I suppose maybe I was privileged to grow up in Wisconsin, one place where not much of anything ever happens, other than a lot of cold weather. I even crossed Reno off my list after learning exactly what it was to earthquake predictions. I'm quite interested in St Petersburg and Clearwater FL, but.........not too sure about that.