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On Thu, 10 Jan 2013 20:06:11 -0500, "Eisboch" wrote:



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The insurance is expensive enough that my likely damage from a foot
or
two of water would be about 10-15 years of premiums and we have a
100+
year flood free history. That is one reason I bought here.

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Not really flooding, but when we were considering buying a house in
Jupiter, Florida, a few of my friends said, "What about the
hurricanes?"
Andrew was still fresh in peoples' minds.

I did a little research and discovered that the Jupiter area had not
had a direct hurricane hit in 100 years. Realizing how long the
coastline of Florida is, I determined that the chances of a hurricane
were actually small. So, we bought the house. In fact, we bought
two houses in the same development. one more as an investment (and an
escape for me from the other house and property that was dedicated to
Mrs. E's horses.)

A year later, we had three damaging hurricanes within 14 months.
Charlie was the first. It was a near-miss but was close enough to
cause a lot of wind damage. Because there had not been a hurricane
in
the Jupiter area for so long, there were a lot of downed trees and
lots of roof damage. Then, a month later, Hurricane Jeanne hit.
Not
a severe hurricane but enough to cause a lot of roof damage again on
many homes.

Then, in November of 2005, Hurricane Wilma. Direct pass of the eye
over Jupiter, causing more damage.

I now conclude that the fact that a storm hasn't hit in 100 years
means it's long overdue.


I agree, where a hurricane hits is just a crap shoot.

At least Charley and Wilma hit you leaving, not coming in.

Charley was the same thing for us, the first real hit for a while so a
lot of things got blown over. I had 2 trees go down and both of them
hit something.
When Wilma hit most of the stuff that was going to blow away had blown
away,
We did have a few things around the neighborhood that took a hit since
the wind was coming from the other direction but nothing at my house.

Charley went in north of us, Wilma came in to the south..

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I think Charley did the most tree and roof damage in our area, again
because there had not been a hurricane close by for so long.
But Wilma was the strongest, even though it also came in from the
West. I was in the house alone during it and thought the walls were
going to come down. (stick house). Power was lost during the first
half. As the eye passed over, I remember them giving warnings that
Wilma was unusual because reports were coming into the radio station
that winds on the back side had gusts that were stronger than those in
the front. They were right.
Fortunately, the back side only lasted for a couple of hours whereas
the front was about four hours.