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three yrs since Katrina
OBrenda:
Hi IndianaBob,
Right now in my life I'm kind of sour on Insurance. Unfortunately when you have a mortgage you are required by law to have these things. The home insurance company I have had for 10 years has decided not to renew in November. If I do the math, since we never put a claim in, we flushed about $30k in their pockets. If we put that money in a savings account, we could pay for damages ourselves.
I think insurance is fleecing this country. People are trusting in them and Government to bail them out of everything. I would like to go back to trusting in God first, then to secure savings & living within my means. I would welcome the ability to not have insurance, but our laws force us to!
I want to owe no man.....!
Brenda
Disaster's can happen anywhere, like Darren said:
Thanks gmik, no matter where one lives we are in danger from mother nature. Hurricanes in the south east, tarnados in the heartland and earthquake in-the west and snow storm and ice storms in the north. So it doesn't matter where you live. I tell you amazed me in the aftermath of Katrina I was reading on line here people were blaming us for living in a soup bowl(*New Orleans) That it was our fault.
I understand Darren being upset...I think it's a bit cold hearted to blame the victims, when they are required to pay for a policy, and then they get thrown under the bus to find themselves in need.
WhoAmI:
All one has to do is read an Almanac and you can surmise that God has been making mankind have serious labor pains for a long time. History is one long complicated pregnancy I say.
May all be at peace during any storm we must endure.
Jeff
Patrick:
At the coffee shop yesterday morning, one of the men told a story of a brother packing up and going to their sisters house in Baton Rouge. The house in New Orleans was spared, the house in Baton Rouge was damaged by a tree falling on it.
hillsbororiver:
Hi Patrick,
The exact same thing happened to us back in '04 when Hurricane Charley (I love how they give these ol' bud names to these storms!) was predicted to make a direct hit on Tampa, my brother and sister in law invited us to stay with them in Orlando. We decided to stay put as our house (as noted in a previous post in this thread) was built to even exceed the new building codes. I was confident we could withstand 150 mph winds.
About 2-3 hours before good ol' boy Charley was to hit Tampa it made an abrupt turn east and hit Port Charlotte directly moving its way Northeast to impact Orlando severely, felling a large oak tree on my brother and sister in law's house! Ironically as they were suffering the full fury of the storm we were grilling Italian sausage and basking in the sun, Tampa received a little wind, a couple showers and then the sun came out about 3 pm.
You never know for sure what is going to happen with these things until it actually happens. ;)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Charley
Peace,
Joe
winner08:
hey everybody, I'm at my aunt's house today. She lives in Kenner a suberb of new orleans. As I was writing yall mon. the electric went out. It has been out ever since. We had no damage. It's been very hot down here. Man no a.c. it's bad. Anyway today is the first day my wife and I were able to take a shower and sit and watch t.v.in the A.C. Oh my dogs are very happy to be out of that heat. I heard the electric should be on tomorrow. Let pray. Thanks for all your concerns and prayers.
Darren
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