Hurricanes can do a lot of damage even if they are a Cat 1. I live in the coastal plains of NC and got flooded out from Hurricane Flo back in 2018. So many homes here were under water when the Cape Fear and other rivers crested.
If you have a lot of rain in the season (ground already saturated as we did) and then have tons of rain bc the storm stalls over you... which it did here for 3 days. Then you will have less wind damage but more flood damage.
We had both in the area. But my roof held up so I got no insurance money from my insurance company... luckily we had FEMA flood insurance and we ended up tapping out of all of that. (It cost us more to repair than we got but luckily we were able to write off the loss for federal taxes for three years... so basically we came out even).
No matter what happens there will be damage from this storm.
I hope that it isn't as dangerous as they are saying it will be.
new orleans is a bowl which is what makes this so dangerous, if the levee fails, it's catastrophic. At the moment it's close to a 5, katrina landed as a 3 (for perspective). This is scary and no matter what south east louisiana is about to get devastated by this, regardless of what happens to new orleans. This is a nightmare.
Hurricanes can do a lot of damage even if they are a Cat 1. I live in the coastal plains of NC and got flooded out from Hurricane Flo back in 2018. So many homes here were under water when the Cape Fear and other rivers crested.
If you have a lot of rain in the season (ground already saturated as we did) and then have tons of rain bc the storm stalls over you... which it did here for 3 days. Then you will have less wind damage but more flood damage.
We had both in the area. But my roof held up so I got no insurance money from my insurance company... luckily we had FEMA flood insurance and we ended up tapping out of all of that. (It cost us more to repair than we got but luckily we were able to write off the loss for federal taxes for three years... so basically we came out even).
No matter what happens there will be damage from this storm.
I hope that it isn't as dangerous as they are saying it will be.
new orleans is a bowl which is what makes this so dangerous, if the levee fails, it's catastrophic. At the moment it's close to a 5, katrina landed as a 3 (for perspective). This is scary and no matter what south east louisiana is about to get devastated by this, regardless of what happens to new orleans. This is a nightmare.