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I'll still take tornados over hurricanes any day
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<blockquote data-quote="ICanFixIt" data-source="post: 3629839" data-attributes="member: 45888"><p>With a tornado you can probably go 5 miles and find a motel room. With a hurricane, there is not a motel room to be had within 50 miles or more because the motels got damaged too. A lot of the damage during a hurricane is caused by the many tornadoes that it spawns, so you get the worst of both worlds with a hurricane. A few hundred damaged or destroyed homes aren't very good incentive for insurance companies to resist paying what they owe for covered claims. The attitude changes a bit when you start talking about a few hundred thousand claims. And where are you going to find the skilled workers to repair or rebuild all of those homes? Where are those workers going to live? Where are the homeowners going to live while the work is being done? Oh, did I forget to mention that business had the same level of damage as homes? So,,,,, your house got destroyed, and you don't have any place to stay. You also don't have a place to work, because that got put out of business because of the damage it sustained. Two weeks after the hurricane TV news drops hurricane coverage and moves on to something new. The rest of the world assumes the problems caused by the hurricane have been resolved, since they aren't hearing about it on the news. Trust me, years later there are plenty of lingering problems. A tornado is bad, but it is grossly inaccurate to try to compare it to a major hurricane.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ICanFixIt, post: 3629839, member: 45888"] With a tornado you can probably go 5 miles and find a motel room. With a hurricane, there is not a motel room to be had within 50 miles or more because the motels got damaged too. A lot of the damage during a hurricane is caused by the many tornadoes that it spawns, so you get the worst of both worlds with a hurricane. A few hundred damaged or destroyed homes aren't very good incentive for insurance companies to resist paying what they owe for covered claims. The attitude changes a bit when you start talking about a few hundred thousand claims. And where are you going to find the skilled workers to repair or rebuild all of those homes? Where are those workers going to live? Where are the homeowners going to live while the work is being done? Oh, did I forget to mention that business had the same level of damage as homes? So,,,,, your house got destroyed, and you don't have any place to stay. You also don't have a place to work, because that got put out of business because of the damage it sustained. Two weeks after the hurricane TV news drops hurricane coverage and moves on to something new. The rest of the world assumes the problems caused by the hurricane have been resolved, since they aren't hearing about it on the news. Trust me, years later there are plenty of lingering problems. A tornado is bad, but it is grossly inaccurate to try to compare it to a major hurricane. [/QUOTE]
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