Hurricane Harvey

[Joods]

Water spouts are fun to see too.

[Clueless Morgan]

Can the typical homeowner afford the extra $100-$200 a month for flood insurance?

The real answer is to analyze the geography and weather patterns and live in a place that doesn't have flooding (for example) problems. This information may not be obvious, on first examination, though, when one moves to a new area (like 100 years ago!).

If can be difficult to find a place to live that doesn't have some kind of bad weather or geographic problem that wouldn't drive people away. There are certainly worse places, IMO, than others - I'd never move tornado alley or the Southeast coast with the hurricanes if I could help it, but the northwest isn't exactly risk free.

Oregon and Washington have active volcanoes and we have the Cascadia subduction zone which is a ticking time bomb but they're less frequent then hurricanes or tornados. But they might also be worse in terms of after effects depending on the strength of the quake.

Then there's southern California on very active faultlines and struggling with drough. Every where you go there's a down side. If just depends on what you're willing to put up with.

[Edwardo Piet]

What about whirlwinds and twisters?

Those are land based and are mostly made up of air and dust. A different phenomenon, though similar.

See, I thought cyclones were them too.

I thought hurricanes were different to all the others. I thought all the others were "spinning swirly wind thingies" but only hurricanes were "bad ass motherfucking wind storms."

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Water spouts are fun to see too.

I totally misread that.

Probably because of my thread elsewhere

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Since the consensus is that it's impossible to stop a house from getting flooded what's the suggested plan of action when hundreds of thousands of buildings get flooded in a hurricane?

Get out and walk. 

Seriously, it's called a disaster for a reason.

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Those are land based and are mostly made up of air and dust. A different phenomenon, though similar.

See, I thought cyclones were them too.

I thought hurricanes were different to all the others. I thought all the others were "spinning swirly wind thingies" but only hurricanes were "bad ass motherfucking wind storms."

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Water spouts are fun to see too.

I totally misread that.

Probably because of my thread elsewhere

Cyclones (Indian Ocean), hurricanes (Atlantic), typhoons (Pacific), depends on the ocean.

[Joods]

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Water spouts are fun to see too.

I totally misread that.

Probably because of my thread elsewhere

Ha ha ha. OMG I actually went back and read my post again because I thought I spelled that wrong.... then realized it wasn't an actual error at all. Wow.... I need to eat breakfast and drink some coffee.

[Edwardo Piet]

Hehehe. We should talk more

[Minimalist]

If true, then god can go fuck himself.... and take this jesus freak scum-sucking pig with him.

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/09/take-it-...handle-it/

‘Take it as a compliment’: Joel Osteen tells victims Harvey was sign God ‘knows you can handle it’

What kind of a fucked up mind does it take to come up with shit like that?

[Wyrd of Gawd]

Can the typical homeowner afford the extra $100-$200 a month for flood insurance?

He/she can less well afford replacing his/her house and all the contents.

A lot of Texans don't have comprehensive insurance policies on their cars so they will not be covered for their flooded cars.  Not everyone is a billionaire.

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If true, then god can go fuck himself.... and take this jesus freak scum-sucking pig with him.

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/09/take-it-...handle-it/

‘Take it as a compliment’: Joel Osteen tells victims Harvey was sign God ‘knows you can handle it’

What kind of a fucked up mind does it take to come up with shit like that?

Osteen's comment is actually biblical.  It says that Yahweh beats the ones that he loves and the more severe the beating the greater the love.

[Minimalist]

As I said, Fuck yhwh.

[Jackalope]

Water spouts are fun to see too.

Not so much when you're at sea though....