Kolek planning to go pro
Bridges to sanibel and pine island impassable. Major road damage on sanibel. Wonder if tournament is moved/cancelled? The Westin which is the team hotel did not look good in the brief shots I saw.
Pretty breezy today in Piedmont NC. Will be interesting to see if Ian intensifies when back at sea and what its strength will be when it goes back inland in South Carolina.
DeSantis is calling it “basically a 500-year flood event."Sadly, it could happen again next year. Or even later this year.
Here’s the thing about xxx-year flooding events and how that term is used.A 500-year flood is just stating there’s a 0.2% chance of that severe of flooding annually. A 100-year flood is a 1% chance and so on.These probabilities are based on historical rainfall data and then applied to flood plan maps. The problem with historical data is there is no weighting to more recent events, which are becoming more and more problematic.Anyone can say “It’s a 500-year flood, we will never see this again.” When realistically coastal areas are now seeing “100-year” events more like every 30 years.
What data are you looking at for this 30 year claim? If you look at the strongest hurricanes on record in the USA many of them were before 1970 and three of the strongest ever in Florida were before 1940. Now when it comes to damage obviously the density of these areas have changed dramatically in 100 yrs.
Totaling up our losses . Looks like a seven figure hit from Ian.
I don't subscribe to Insider so I can't read the article, but the headline says: Airbnb’s refund policy doesn’t cover hurricanes in Florida, because they’re so common.
Some friends lost their whole trip to Daytona. No refund from ABNB and no refund/transfer from the airline. Sucks.
I won't book an airbnb stay unless it has a really good cancellation date -- usually a week or less before the stay is supposed to start. But I'm not sure even that would have helped this time.
In my experience, VRBO is much better than ABNB.
I hope your business recovers quickly.