While in the Marines, I lived in Okinawa, Japan for three years. I will say that base housing on that island is definitely built with typhoons in mind.....thick concrete walls....thick glass in STURDY frames....all metal doors with three latches (top, middle, bottom) and hinges that are about eight inches long by about an inch in diameter. We would just "batten down the hatches" and ride 'em out without fear. You would think that SOMEBODY stateside would catch on.

Anyway, best wishes to all who are in harm's way.

Harley

Harley,

I've also lived in that type of Navy housing while living on an island. Our biggest threat was tsunamis.

Other than being up on the water tower, with an inner tube around your waist, our housing is where we had to be during an alert. I think we might have had a reasonable chance of survival. <img src="/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

I take it you don't live in Florida and have never dealt with a hurricane warning.



Yea, they are in Florida too. Built by a company called DiVosta. Unfortunately, they are expensive. I guess we're just supposed to hope we can afford one.



Let's see. Three hurricane scares in the last 4 weeks. We would have towed that puppy to Georgia and back three times at about $2000 a pop. $6000. Yea, I got that laying aroud the house somewhere.



Ok, I'll need a Class A size to fit my family of 4. Guess I'll give the dog away because they are not allowed in most camper parks. Hope the schools are good in that part of town surrounded by bars and strip joints.

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What if you don't own a truck? And "good" insurance is impossible to get since Hurricane Andrew. Oh, and you better leave a week ahead of the storm or you'll hit a bottleneck in Jacksonville and likely run out of gas as all the stations will be out. Watch the storm come in over I-95 from the comfort of leather seating. Also hope you have an understanding employeer who agrees with your evacuation strategy.



Certainly a viable alternative if you can find a job that pays enough elsewhere.



Wise up and do what? Abandon the State of Florida back to the Seminole and Mikasukke tribes?



I guess you better nominate me and my entire neighborhood for the Darwin awards. The eye of Frances past over our town. We got the eyewall twice. We all came through just fine.

Sorry if I sound a little flippant, but this is a complex problem that is not solved by over-simplified generalizations.

Stay safe.

Craig.

Maybe oversimplified and off the cuff (not meant ot be taken literally granted but:

Why stay in the path of a killer storm?

There is no excuse to put your family at risk when and if you have the means to leave temporarily and have plenty warning.

From what I hear people are deciding to move from Florida because of the prediction this is going to be a yearly thing multiple storms.

Limiting ones exposure to risk in the first place is a basic fundamental of survival I believe.

If Florida is devastated yearly maybe it is time to abandon the state, what good is it if you can't afford to build storm proof housing. As humans we are sometimes slow on the uptake maybe after rebuilding your home the 5 th time in 5 years it may sink in.

There are other jobs and states.

I do feel for people in a situation where they can't afford to leave or physically can't but fail to see why one would stay for any other reason. Time to get out of Dodge.

Flip

Flipper, go get a dictionary and look up, naive. Then apply everything you wrote to YOU, personally, and see how it flies. Sheesh ...

I guess I'm an idiot in some peoples books then, because my semi-retirement plans still include relocating south and staying financially comfortable by taking rich New Yorkers back and forth between Miami and Grand Bahama on a Charter motor-sailer. As long as the weather is as good as it is 9/10ths of the year, and the scenery is what it is, people WILL come, and where tourism is big, people WILL want to be there. Just my two cents worth.

Troy

Maggot:

Now, now, no flaming or you will set a record for having the first non-firearms related discussion thread locked down.

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Bounty ?!? .... is that you ??? Are you feeling O.K. ?

Or did some hacker steal your ID on the forum ...??.........

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Frenchy:

Are you insinuating that I flame people that are really dipsticks, anal retentive, and spinmiesters? <img src="/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" />

I am simply flabbergasted and you know "THEY" deserve it. <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Bountyhunter <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

LOL
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