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If your mobile home is in a costal county you can't get any type of house insurance. They will not insure you because of the losses that have taken in the past. Heaven help you if you own money on your house.
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If your mobile home is in a costal county you can't get any type of house insurance. They will not insure you because of the losses that have taken in the past. Heaven help you if you own money on your house.
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Oh man that sucks about the insurance, hell i was just a kid so i didnt know what insurance my father had or not. But some of them mobile homes are real strong and and anchored well. i was in miami after the storm visiting friends and seen a bunch of strong surviving mobiles. Im just saying they are stronger than most give them credit for.
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I live in a senor park where you have to be 50 years pus just to live here. they had a free deal where the state was going to pay a company to come in and check your tie downs and if you needed more tie downs or just needed them to be fix it was going to be free for you. we just had to get 80% of the people just to sighn up for it. I think less than 5% of the people sighn up for it.
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We did pretty well. I still don't have internet/TV/phone, but the power only flickered. Our house is in the lee of a hill and the worst winds went through the tops of the trees behind the house. I had the emergency radio on most of Monday night, and the Public Works and Fire Dept. were responding to downed burning and/or glowing wires, trees on fire, trees on houses, until it got so bad they pulled everyone back and would not even let them respond to 9-1-1 calls. A volunteer firefighter died in a town about 20 miles from here when a falling tree hit his firetruck. Next town over is 100% out of power, so they must have substation issues.
One friend lost some siding, another lost about a third of his roof shingles, and they fell on his brand new car!
This same guy borrowed my generator last year after the October snowstorm since he was out of power for over a week and then had a 14 kw auto system installed in his house. Once a week since then the sucker started itself up and ran a self check on itself -- until the storm. The battery was low (from all the self tests, apparently) and smoked the starter! So once again he's on borrowed generator until the generator service guy shows up -- which with what they are going through might be even longer than the week he was out last year! He needs to get his biorhythms checked.
One friend lost some siding, another lost about a third of his roof shingles, and they fell on his brand new car!
This same guy borrowed my generator last year after the October snowstorm since he was out of power for over a week and then had a 14 kw auto system installed in his house. Once a week since then the sucker started itself up and ran a self check on itself -- until the storm. The battery was low (from all the self tests, apparently) and smoked the starter! So once again he's on borrowed generator until the generator service guy shows up -- which with what they are going through might be even longer than the week he was out last year! He needs to get his biorhythms checked.
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All is well in upper Manhattan. Just a lot of tree debris and tree damage. I have been helping with tree duty seeing as not too many people have chainsaws on my block..yes I have one (for when the zombies come...lol). Side window on the truck was smashed but it could have been worse. My wife is a school cop and her school is a designated shelter so she is on her third 12 hour shift...the people in City Island got hit REAL bad. She informed me earlier that whoever was in charge, had neglected to bring enough dog/catfood for the pets that came with families so I jumped in the truck and hit Petsmart to the tune of $224 and dropped off bags of food...Im a punk for animals. Im also pet sitting two other dogs until my neighbor can locate his grandma who is in a nursing home in Long Island. No train service yet but the buses started running earlier. The warning message to my phone and some local morning after pics.
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Just got power back up here a couple hours ago. Didn't make out so bad this year as in Irene, we were out of power for 6 days last time. I've got a nice maple tree down in the driveway that is gonna get chopped up for firewood, and limbs and branches all over the place.
I did almost get killed on my way home Monday. I shut down all our non-critical servers and boogied for home at about 3pm, as I was heading up 17M I'm watching this Willow on the side of the road swaying back and forth, then all of a sudden it was swaying further than it had before, then crashing down into the right lane about 20feet in front of me. I had started moving into the left lane as soon as I saw it however, so it only grazed the door of my car on the way by. Needless to say I was staring down every tree within 10 feet of the road on the rest of the way home.
Hope everyone else is making out ok.
I did almost get killed on my way home Monday. I shut down all our non-critical servers and boogied for home at about 3pm, as I was heading up 17M I'm watching this Willow on the side of the road swaying back and forth, then all of a sudden it was swaying further than it had before, then crashing down into the right lane about 20feet in front of me. I had started moving into the left lane as soon as I saw it however, so it only grazed the door of my car on the way by. Needless to say I was staring down every tree within 10 feet of the road on the rest of the way home.
Hope everyone else is making out ok.
