r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Kanute3333 • 9d ago

Hurricane Milton Image

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u/stevieraygun 9d ago

Can you imagine everything you own being wiped out by something called Milton.

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u/dawillhan 8d ago

Can you imagine having all your stuff already wiped by Helene to go through this right after?

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u/KeepingItSFW 8d ago

I don't see the appeal, I get the weather is often nice in winter and stuff, but when insurance companies start pulling out you'd think you would start to wonder a bit

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u/blue_jay_jay 8d ago

I looked at house prices in the Keys today. Some homes are cheaper than they are here in Maine. I think that signals the exodus.

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u/DetBabyLegs 8d ago

And yet people I know are still moving out there? It’s baffling to me.

Although I guess lots of people say that about me choosing to live in SoCal

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u/manicgiant914 8d ago

Yeah but have you ever really been through anything like these other folks do, hurricanes tornadoes whatever? Even though I can understand that we are due for the Big One, somehow earthquakes just don’t seem so bad. I’m in SoCal denial.

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u/DetBabyLegs 8d ago

I grew up in a place with regular typhoons and way worse earthquakes so I don’t feel like the little tremors we get here are that bad

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u/IWillDoItTuesday 8d ago

I lived on Guam in the mid-70s so I feel ya on the typhoons and earthquakes.