Mad Eyed Screamer
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My daughter just lost power in Plant City - 24 miles east of Tampa
Hurricane Milton
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That's crazy but I can understand why. I'm guessing nobody has insurance there?
Mad Eyed Screamer
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The vast majority of mobile home parks in Florida are 55+ communities, very few cater for all ages.
When I moved in aged 58, I was 'the young buck'' (Rooney would love it here) and lowered the average age down considerably. The majority are living week to week on their social security pension and insurance is the last thing on their mind.
I've been texting my neighbour Joan, aged 76 who stayed put with her disabled husband - where would they go and how would they get there? She has a golf cart that gets her to the doctors and the supermarket up the road. She said she lost power but the mobile home is still standing firm.
Mad Eyed Screamer
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I'm flicking through channels between local NBC and CBS and they are either using the same camera or standing in the same area in Tampa which is under cover (think they are on the ground floor of a multi story car park.)
Bill Walker
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Just had to Google what HOA means.. it's the same as we have here but they're called body corporate committees.
We just sold our apartment as weekly fees were heading up to two hundred dollars a week mainly because of insurance costs.
The apartment made us a tidy profit in the five years we lived there though.
Hopefully they will be okay. What actually happens to the people you described with no insurance and just a basic income if their mobile homes get flattened? Homeless I guess.
With the frequency these events occur in that area you'd think they would have a decent contingency plan rather than move out until it passes.
On sky this bloke is standing in the street.
On the subject of hurricane's in my time at sea I sailed in quite a few. I've posted a picture of a particularly bad one I was in around 1979/80. We were heading back to the UK across the north Atlantic from Norfolk Virginia. At 3:30 am a freak wave smashed the ship and the inside accomodation was under a good three feet of water. We were on emergency stations but thankfully the experience of our captain ( 35 years at sea) got us through. It is as taken with a Polaroid camera so not great quality.
I was also working on the English channel the night of the infamous Michael Fish hurricane in 1987. When I eventually finished my shift 5 hours later than it should have ended Dover was like a war zone and my digs lost power about 10 minutes after I got in.
I was also working on the English channel the night of the infamous Michael Fish hurricane in 1987. When I eventually finished my shift 5 hours later than it should have ended Dover was like a war zone and my digs lost power about 10 minutes after I got in.
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Mad Eyed Screamer
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My home was built in 1987 so it’s survived a few storms so maybe this one too? Though none have been as big and direct as this.
This is my 4th in the 9 years in Florida and the other 3 barely touched Tampa but obviously caught the outer waves from it.
Locals always feared that Tampa was due a big one as it had been avoiding one for so long…..
Thanks for the reply, I hope you all come through it safely and with as little damage as possible.
I was in Tampa in the early eighties and actually went to a football game. The Tampa Bay Rowdies v the Jacksonville Teamen. It ended up a draw and Archie Gemmill played for the Teamen.