Hurricane Harvey Hits Texas Coast!

It really depends upon where you are, if next door to a grocery store (no problem). I used to be on the line that went to the hotels across A1A in Daytona Beach, and would get power much quicker, and had a neighbor who worked for the FPL. Then they changed it just prior to the 2004 hurricanes (more than two), and that worked out okay, because the last time I had to go into my circuit breaker panel and rewire it myself so I had power to only the undamaged rooms.

Those people who are flooded, better be careful, they don’t need power before they are ready. They need to dry out their flooded frames…

My second claim paid before the first, and I called the roofers the day after Charley, and they didn’t get the roofing I ordered until one year later. I watched a ten-story building rise and would have loved their scrap, but that is against the gubermint law.

I once tried to get a permit to build I house on stilts in a watershed and was turned down by zoning, how much you want to bet most of those flooded could not have built on stilts because of some stinking gubermint law?

The two story houses that didn’t get the top floor flooded are the ones I wouldn’t worry about, I think there is an episode of “Holmes Makes It Right” where they converted a flooded two story house to stilts and they showed one in the hood that was previously fixed.

 

Tough bird. You can't be undone by a mere Hurricane and biblical flooding.

 

Dude, do you realize the energy packed into pop tarts?

It's go to food for long distance hikers like me! Read the label.

 

Great post.

My home is on the same line as the fire department down the hill, I never lose power.

As to gubment regs. Nothing should be built on beach front property but grass shacks with rice paper walls, but that's not code.

 

The Gestapo Communist Manifest Gubermint will not allow a "Chickee” or tiny house (TOW) in many places.

Found newspapers in the attic, when tearing down the ceiling that didn’t collapse all the way, from when Easy and King struck the area. There is something to be said for block and concrete.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1950_Atlantic_hurricane_season

A tiny block or concrete house is illegal, you must buy the land first and beg for permission from the Gestapo Communist Manifest Gubermint, and to prevent the Real Estate Principle of Regression comrades usually must have more rooms than we use.

One other thing I want to say, Scammers preying upon those people should be hung by the neck until dead; Congress needs to make whatever laws needed to hang them in public.

 

Agreed the little ground level 'cracker' houses, block construction, survive. Shovel out, pressure wash, new carpet, all good!

As a real-estate broker for 17 years on Pensacola Beach I saw and argued against the advance of building codes that demanded expensive construction that made replacement ever more expensive. Insanity.

 

A solid frame like some of those Japanese temples with like you say, “rice paper” walls, one jacked up “safe room.”

There are so many ways to build; tiny floating home tethered to a pole that rises with the flood…, but too many building codes for economic reasons (Gestapo Communist Manifesto Gubermint) instead of reasoning.

A Tiny House (TOW), or three, would be perfectly logical in some areas, you could run from hurricanes or other things you have lots of warning about, but even if I bought the $10,000 lot zoned for Manufactured over on Nova Rd, they would not let me. I must rent a space down the road from the lawmaker’s cousin…to park it or buy a BIG house (mortgage for the lawmaker cousin’s…income) just to park behind it. Then when the storm is coming, they don’t open Mainland High as a shelter, too pretty of a school, and the ones they do open don’t open until the wind is kicking up, so I have to brave the wind riding on a motorcycle.


Maybe one day before I die I will live in a free country.

 

Ohhhhhh, and the really fun part of the aftermath: trying to outrun the Gargantuan Mosquitoes from Hell.

 

Well, la ti da. Did you jump his ass for his rude implications that I was doing nothing for others? No.
Pfffffffft

 

Please stop making false accusations against others.

 

This meme wouldn't be so funny if it weren't true.

The cajun navy did wonderful and helped so many. Hopefully they were able to raise enough money to at least cover the cost of fuel and damage to personal boats. I'm going to bet we can count on them in the future, including the new people from Texas who joined in to help.

 

This too...

 

Speaking of that, not really a good time to try to buy a used car, those cars end up anywhere.

 

I bet.

 

Ten Things that we Learned from the Texas Flood 2017

1. AT&T sucks and Verizon is owned by a Cajun.
2. The Cajun Navy and Texan Navy is better equipped than the Federal Government and is much faster.
3. Race does not divide us, the media divides us.
4. CNN stands for Covers Negative News and CN stands for Cajun Navy.
5. We will find the means to cook in any situation
6. All Lives Matter including Animals
7. No water is too deep nor too shallow for passage.
8. A Cajun and a Texan can launch a boat anywhere including roadways.
9. Our strength is " Togetherness "
10. Under no circumstances will we be defeated
I Love Texas

 

On a lighter note...

Houston Exacts Revenge on Harvey

 

Where's PETA ???? Where's all the Celebrities??? Where"s Bill Maher and the Girls from The View ?? Where's the sad commercials asking for money ??? These are Real Men and Women. They aren't looking for publicity, they are saving their's and their Neighbors Livelihoods.

 

Well, did you? And Dont get touchy and thethethive.

 

Where are all the pubs/cons?

 

Probably the cowboys getting their animals to safety.