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Hope you'll amend your post, Mike Danforth, to read that Daytona is
hardest hit OVER THE YEARS...because certainly Punta Gorda has been, without a
DOUBT...hardest his THIS YEAR. In fact, it can't stand much more! However,
Punta Gorda is still one of the SAFEST places to live on the FL coast,
overall. I've lived there probably 17 years now and had to 'prepare' for a
hurricane only once. (It passed us by!) It had not been hit for 44 years,
otherwise!
I read on the Weather Channel (with which I am odds, by the way) that Fl
has the highest percentage of 'hits' of anyother state, with 44%. No wonder
our insurance is so outrageous! Most companies won't even insure boats in FL
now...and houses aren't far behind!
Let's face it though, this is going to be (it ain't over yet guys!) one of
THE worst hurricane seasons in years...so it's not a good yard stick. The
biggest problem is that, except for the Pan Handle, the shape of the state
does not lend itself to evacuation, unless you leave very early! It has I-75
and I-95 north. The storms this year have pretty much crossed the state! Until
codes require SAFER building...and give up tile roofs (ie 'flying missles')
and really restrict mobile homes...it'll continue to be bad. While they allow
million$ homes full of art to be built on barrier islands so our insurance sky
rockets...what can you expect?
Otherwise, it's a great place to live if you love palm trees and eternal
summer and take your boat north in the summer...like up the Tenn-Tom! Thank
God I did that this year!
Marge Griffith
Cinderella
Linssen GS 410
Lying at Green Turtle Bay Resort...thank God!
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