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dlucier
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Initially Posted - 03/03/2006 : 19:33:24

From the Detroit News...

Upcoming hurricane season looks to be another bad one

Official cites storm cycle and La Nina

March 3, 2006

BY ANA RADELAT
GANNETT NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON -- Brace yourself, coastal America. The hurricane season that begins June 1 may be worse than the last two, said Max Mayfield, director of the National Hurricane Center. And the last two were doozies.

There are several reasons:

A historic cycle in which there have been more hurricanes and storms with great intensity.

La Nina effect -- unusually cold Pacific Ocean temperatures that spawn more hurricanes in the Atlantic.

Possibly, global warming or other environmental causes.

Here are Mayfield's answers to hurricane questions:

QUESTION: Hurricane Katrina has been called a 100-year storm, something so rare that it would only occur once a century. But could another Katrina develop soon?

ANSWER: Absolutely, yes. And the message from the National Hurricane Center is very consistent. We are urging every individual, every business, every community to have a hurricane plan and have it in place now, before the hurricane season gets here. Everybody on the Atlantic coast, the gulf coast and the Caribbean.

Q: And we're expecting another big year for hurricanes?

A: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has a team that will put together the first forecast May 22. But there are a lot of other people who are doing a seasonal hurricane forecast who say it will be a very busy season. What I think is important to acknowledge is that we all agree we're in this active period (of hurricanes), and meteorologists say we're going to be in this period for another 10 to 20 years. We've had a lot of major hurricanes since 1995. We had a lot of hurricanes in the 1950s and 1960s, but not so many in the next 25 years.

Q: What happens if another hurricane hits the gulf coast?

A: There's special concern now with the people living in Mississippi and southeast Louisiana. Many are living in trailers and tents. They're going to need a longer lead time to evacuate. They need to know, those people who are in temporary housing, they need to know right now where they would go, because another hurricane is very, very possible.

Don Lucier

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britinusa
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Response Posted - 03/03/2006 : 21:22:11

With luck I'll have finished replacing the fence around our place, the old one wat totalled by Wilma last October.
I think everyone is taking extra steps to prepare. In our case, we are sinking the fence posts to around 2'9" into the ground and then securing them with between 120lbs and 300lbs of crete. Plan is that inside the fence will be safe (yea right!)

I find it amazing that in our area where there was minimal damage compared to New Orleans, there are so many damaged roofs around, blue tarps are everywhere, many stores still don't have their roof fixed. And there are still trees close to power lines! - Only 90 days to the start of the season.

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Frank Hopper
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Response Posted - 03/03/2006 : 21:45:05

Do people in Hurricane areas pay proportionately higher insurance costs or do all of us pay for those storms?

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Sea Trac
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Response Posted - 03/03/2006 : 22:41:19

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by fhopper@mac.com
 Do people in Hurricane areas pay proportionately higher insurance costs or do all of us pay for those storms?
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Do people in Tornado areas pay proportionally higher insurance costs or do all of us pay for those storms?

Oh, wait, I'm in a tornado area, too.

Check out the historical sea surface temperature trends for the mid-Atlantic, and get reconciled to more, bigger, badder.

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britinusa
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Response Posted - 03/04/2006 : 07:55:03

We're paying about $1000 premiums ($1000 deductable) for our C250WB kept on the trailer at home when we are not on the water (30+ miles from Miami)

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Tradewind
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Response Posted - 03/05/2006 : 08:50:14

Brit, you might want to shop around. I paid less than that for my Cal 36 kept in the water in Pensacola, I had BOATUS.

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britinusa
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Response Posted - 03/05/2006 : 10:41:17

Yup, we're with boatus.

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