We Have Hurricanes, Others Have...........

Here is South Africa getting torn up. Everywhere there is dramatic events. Tsunamis, earthquakes, fires, floods, you name it! What do we do? Offer thoughts and prayers? Offer dollars? Read another story and move on?

I can feel what some of these people are going thru as I've been there. I can't imagine what some of them are going thru since I have never been in a house that was blown apart by the wind or water. Luckily my home was built good! I have never had to hang on to a tree to survive. My step-son and friends in his house during Katrina in Biloxi, swam to get a loose sailboat then clung to a power pole till the water went down. Some of these people will never be known as a hero, but many are strong survivors. What gives people the will to go on after such devastating experiences?

We have floods here right now. Have damns collapsing in other countries, fires close to members here home cities. Along with the things we all have going on in our own individual life, how to cope with all the things happening to everyone else? Are we just to get numb? Can 1 person do anything to make difference?

Thoughts and thoughts...........and prayers............


https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-47609676

 

wow, yeah... what does one say or do? it seems like every summer, here in california, we try to burn ourselves to the ground. i have little time, and basically no financial means. but i can craft thoughts into prayers. with a foundation of unconditional love, one can build in the elements of courage and bravery, safety and security, compassion and hope, imagine putting them into a gift box with a fancy bow, drop it off in a mail box, and the heavenly postal service will deliver it where it is needed most. it might not seem like much, but i do believe that it can make a huge difference, to some one, some where, in their time of crisis.

 

Not South Africa but Mozambique which is in southern Africa.

Natural disasters come and go. Fortunately, humans are the most resilient creatures on earth.
How people stand up, pick up, and go on, is testimony to that.

What gets to me are the never-ending man-made disasters.
Here is just one of them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_Civil_War#Impact

 

The 'survivors' are resilient.

 

lol come live in pennsylvania we get it all.

I live near erie pennsylvania area west side and i get any thing from high winds which can reach up to 30 to 70 mph winds snow,rain some times at the same time we get tornadoes here and there.We all so get small earthquakes but we hardly feel them.And all so we get hurricanes some times.

 

When's the last time you got hurricane or cyclone? Know what a 120 mph wind feels like?

 

Last year some time

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Pennsylvania_hurricanes

 

@harmless

If I could give you 2 likes, I would. I believe you, sir, have a good heart!

 

@wile e coyote

Looks like the 1800's were a bad stretch for you area. Amazing!

 

During the 1800's with news traveling slow and probably not many people expecting a hurricane away from the coast, it had to be crazy with a storm coming in.

 

Stayed for Hurricane Georges (1998, Mobile AL), my first major hurricane. The shingles on my roof were shaved off by either a huge microburst or small spin-up tornado. Learned and understood the word "evacuate" when Ivan and Katrina battered Mobile back-to-back in 2004 and 2005.

Moved to Houston in 2007, the following year (even being 40+ miles inland) Ike ate my roof shingles. Last year I dodged a bullet with Harvey: No flooding and no issues with the 15 or so tornadoes reported within 10 miles of my house in a 48 hour period.

On the bright side, I haven't had to shovel snow since I moved to the Gulf Coast in 1989.

 

I just got my roof replaced Monday. It is saddening the amount of structures damaged so bad that a roof has nothing to cover.

 

I am pretty sure in the 1800's they only had telegraph,So yes it would be crazy.And probably people in that time and area they probably did not know what a hurricane was.

 

I suppose there was a silver lining both times my roofing shingles disappeared: Even though I had to fork out about $2000 each time for deductibles and miscellaneous things my insurance didn't cover I ended up replacing an older roof that, had it not been for a hurricane, would have had to have been replaced in a few years due to normal wear. Totally out-of-pocket, this would have run around $6000 each time.

In both cases, I paid a bit more of my own money to upgrade from builder-grade (70-75 MPH wind rating) to enhanced (110 MPH wind rating) shingles, reducing risk in the future. After a hurricane (whether you filed a damage claim or not), your homeowners' insurance premium skyrockets by at least 20% the following year. Getting stuck with this, I feel no guilt about filing legitimate claims for damages.

 

I upgraded from 3 tab shingles to Architectural roof shingles and came in under the insurance adjusters quote for the 3 tab. I had the place since new in '99 and it had 25 year life shingles. It was in pretty good condition but still as you say in a few more years who knows. I had wind storm insurance with only a 750$ deductible. I received enough to pay it off, but I have a low mortgage and reasonable ins payments so I'll just continue on. Who knows that by 10 more years I could get hit again.