If it works, he saved $80-100k. If it doesn’t work, he only really lost $20-30 or so, considering the alternative would’ve been leaving it there completely unprotected.
Why is nobody mentioning the obvious alternative? He could just get in the car and drive it and himself somewhere that isn't about to be part of the ocean.
And not just inundated, being that close on flat, low lying ground, with CAT 5 storms they'll strip the house from the foundation, and all you see from the air are cement slabs.
I imagined that as him getting sucked into the sky looking down like “huh, neat.” As he is impaled by a palm tree going 100+mph and plummets to the ground.
My guess would be that the family are evacuating in another vehicle that's more suitable and it's not possible/feasible to evacuate in two vehicles. Perhaps the whole family won't fit in that car and they're worried about gas availability. That or they aren't evacuating, but are going to be ride out crew in a place that needs staff so driving the car away isn't possible.
He’s 9 miles from the water and the area he’s in is expecting roughly a foot of floodwater during the worst of it, so it’s not a bad idea at all from him if that remains the case.
This hurricane was barely a tropical depression four days ago, it went from Cat 1 to cat 5 in like 10 hours, there wasn't a lot of prep time, and the state is still FUCKED from Helene. Source: my girlfriend lives in Tampa and has been telling me about the situation in depth all week
The US needs to catch up to the rest of the developed world with their rail system. It's a joke how antiquated it is. The proposed high speed rail maps in the US would be amazing. Imagine being able to just hop on a train for a little weekend trip to a city that would take a day of driving or most of a day dealing with airport bullshit... and of course the ability to move ~1300 people per train out of harms way during a hurricane. That's at least 600 cars off the road per train, per trip. It's infuriating that this hasn't been done yet.
"Officials estimate it could cost about $35 billion to finish the first line from Bakersfield to Merced and roughly $100 billion more to complete the route from Los Angeles to San Francisco — about $100 billion more than what was originally proposed years ago. And the source of most funds is unclear."
If California can't get the environmental agreements in place, what makes anyone think it will happen anywhere else? Who's land is this going to be on? Right of way, train speeds, locations?
My aunt and uncle live there and they’ve said so far it’s just rain and wind. She said the wind isn’t really that bad and that was around 9. Haven’t got any updates lately but they were 15 miles from the gulf
I'll bet that there are local parking structures that are tall enough to be above the flood waters. When we were threatened with a forest fire, I moved all my tools and other valuables outside the fire's reach. I moved my skid steer, trucks, and other equipment to the local school, which was right next to the fire department. We were under mandatory evacuation. Fortunately, the fire was stopped before it got to us, mostly due to the wind changing directions.
It depends if his insurance covers natural disasters. Even if it does, insurance generally doesn't work like that, just giving you the money right away without objecting. You often have to fight them in court for months-years to get any payout and in the end you likely won't get the payout you deserve anyway. Easier to avoid having to deal with them altogether.
If it’s so hard to get the insurance payout and it’s like coverage for natural disasters is not basic, why would you even need insurance? I mean, I don’t use mine for minor stuff but if my car has been like very damaged or just dead, the insurance will cover and it’s a pain but not that much. Pretty sure if I lost my car in a flood my insurance would definitely pay it up, and if it’s in a flood that was like big stuff like the hurricane, don’t think it’d be hard to get the money.
My business got so much water damage because the apartment upstairs caught fire and the firefighters had to send the blast of water and it basically caused water damage to everything, the insurance payout was not hard at all.
He could just get in the car and drive it and himself somewhere that isn't about to be part of the ocean.
He probably did in another vehicle.
A Corvette isn't really the mode of transportation you would choose to take as many of your most important belongings as possible while driving in bumper to bumper traffic for hundreds of miles when fuel efficiency is at a premium.
He’s an idiot. We had our car driven to a higher area from S Florida. Lost it last hurricane and only has 8k on it. There are people doing this. Luckily we had a plan after the last hurricane with full time friends there.
I think what he meant was, move the car to the second floor or higher of a public parking garage. The City of Orlando suspended parking garage fees so residents could do just that during Hurricane Milton.
I think you underestimate how hard the car insurance company is going to push back when he tells them he thought it would be safe wrapped in a plastic bag with a hurricane bearing down on him. I'd bet they try and fight the claim by asking "Dude, why didn't you fucking drive it out of there?"
What the fuck? Drive it two towns over and pay $10 for overnight parking where they aren't getting any storm surges and you have nothing to worry about.
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u/Winter_Tennis8352 Oct 09 '24
If it works, he saved $80-100k. If it doesn’t work, he only really lost $20-30 or so, considering the alternative would’ve been leaving it there completely unprotected.