Hurricane Ian Incoming!

[edro]

A place on the beach would be nice but no more than I'd use it, far less headache (and cheaper) to rent a nice condo on the beach for a week or two...then go home....

 

[SteveC]

A place on the beach would be nice but no more than I'd use it, far less headache (and cheaper) to rent a nice condo on the beach for a week or two...then go home....

Income. Income from tourists.

When we rented ours, we kept 2-3 weeks/season for ourselves. The remaining weeks paid for everything - mortgage, taxes, insurance, upkeep, etc.. The leftover money was pure gravy, that we plowed into principle reduction.

Once the place was paid off, it was like having an ATM, that you didn't need a card to use. Then eventually, when the market peaks, you sell it and take dump trucks full of money to the bank.

 

[KSG_Standard]

Living on the beach is hard on all your stuff. EVERYTHING rusts...doorknobs, light fixtures, cars, etc., etc., etc. Everything gets covered in and full of sand. You have to worry about hurricanes every season and you have to do constant maintenance on your stuff the rest of the year.

 

[Olds442]

i'm not sure there's any place that doesn't have potential disasters.

Quakes, fires, flooding, tornados, hurricanes, excessive heat and drought. pick any place and it has it's issues. go far enough north, and excessive cold snaps kill.

 

[edro]

If I did build one, It would be supported by all red iron down through stacked big concrete pipe four corners... Deck going out toward beach supported by three stacks, the two front corners and one in middle.... Poured reinforced house floor and deck... Steel frame, concrete siding, concrete tile roof.... Move that shit, Ian... Concrete and steel...

It'd look like support of the Sunshine Skyway underneath.... Hella surf break with those.....

 

[Leumas]

Income. Income from tourists.

When we rented ours, we kept 2-3 weeks/season for ourselves. The remaining weeks paid for everything - mortgage, taxes, insurance, upkeep, etc.. The leftover money was pure gravy, that we plowed into principle reduction.

Once the place was paid off, it was like having an ATM, that you didn't need a card to use. Then eventually, when the market peaks, you sell it and take dump trucks full of money to the bank.

I think that's our plan in the next couple of years. We live in our beach house right now. In Myrtle Beach. So yeah, today is fun. But assuming we get though this I'm looking at getting something a little more secure and spacious and renting this bitch out for as much as I can squeeze out of it.

 

[DeafDumbBlind Kid]

i'm not sure there's any place that doesn't have potential disasters.

Quakes, fires, flooding, tornados, hurricanes, excessive heat and drought. pick any place and it has it's issues. go far enough north, and excessive cold snaps kill.

it's almost as if the universe ... really hates us

 

[edro]

I see houses being built down at the beach and some puzzle me.....

My idea of all concrete and steel including concrete siding and concrete roof tiles seems a hella quicker and simpler than stick and the usual way.... Hella stronger....

 

[Soul Tramp]

If I did build one, It would be supported by all red iron down through stacked big concrete pipe four corners... Deck going out toward beach supported by three stacks, the two front corners and one in middle.... Poured reinforced house floor and deck... Steel frame, concrete siding, concrete tile roof.... Move that shit, Ian... Concrete and steel...

It'd look like support of the Sunshine Skyway underneath.... Hella surf break with those.....



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I was stunned to learn the pilings under the house are 30' or more below ground!

 

[edro]

I was stunned to learn the pilings under the house are 30' or more below ground!

This is. a house on Mexico beach after a hurricane a few years back... It was built right.... Interesting article....... I've stayed near that house some years back....a couple roads to the left and a couple hundred yards from beach.... I was dumbfounded at all of the houses and such simple 'gone ass'... I think I'd go duplex, all concrete/steel and steel roll downs facing gulf.... Let rental half pay for all of it...

House Still Standing on Hard-Hit Mexico Beach After Hurricane Michael

It’s called “The Sand Palace,” but it might as well be called “The Hurricane Miracle.” In a sea—or, actually on a coastline in Mexico Beach, FL—of incredible destruction in the wake of Hurricane Michael, one home stands alone. And it’s this one. “Hurricane Michael tossed cars into the canal...

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[KSG_Standard]

This is a picture of the Bolivar Peninsula right after hurricane Ike in 2008. Ike was only a cat 2 storm and it wasn't the wind the wiped out Bolivar, it was the water. The gulf came up and went right over the Peninsula. Before Ike, there were more than 6000 structures (homes and businesses) on Bolivar. The peninsula was basically scoured clean except for a very few well built homes.

All of the stuff (houses and contents) and everything else that could float from all of those houses and buildings, ended up strewn along the Padre Island National Sea Shore, which is hundreds of miles away. For the next couple of years we were cleaning up parts of house and people's stuff off the beach.

 

[SteveC]

i'm not sure there's any place that doesn't have potential disasters.

Quakes, fires, flooding, tornados, hurricanes, excessive heat and drought. pick any place and it has it's issues. go far enough north, and excessive cold snaps kill.

We used to tongue-in-cheek joke in CA that we always needed another fire, or earthquake to get people to move back where they came from.

We lived through a couple big quakes in CA; I'd take them any day vs. hurricanes. The fires? Well, no so much. But, the hurricanes? Nope. Never wanna go though one of them.

And, yes... I am a pussy!

 

[Kamen_Kaiju]

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This is a picture of the Bolivar Peninsula right after hurricane Ike in 2008. Ike was only a cat 2 storm and it wasn't the wind the wiped out Bolivar, it was the water. The gulf came up and went right over the Peninsula. Before Ike, there were more than 6000 structures (homes and businesses) on Bolivar. The peninsula was basically scoured clean except for a very few well built homes.

All of the stuff (houses and contents) and everything else that could float from all of those houses and buildings, ended up strewn along the Padre Island National Sea Shore, which is hundreds of miles away. For the next couple of years we were cleaning up parts of house and people's stuff off the beach.

that's scary. I really didn't know the sea rises and just washes over everything during a hurricane. I always think of them as just really bad thunderstorms with high wind.

My woman calls them 'Typhoons'. In her old country they have Typhoon season every year and I guess it's just a way of life and you get used to it.

Scary stuff.

 

[Leumas]

I see houses being built down at the beach and some puzzle me.....

My idea of all concrete and steel including concrete siding and concrete roof tiles seems a hella quicker and simpler than stick and the usual way.... Hella stronger....

If I had "FU" money I would do exactly that. I want reinforced everything. Bulletproof glass. 1/2 inch steel outer walls. Concrete piling buried deep. Maybe a few hungry Rottweilers for good measure.

 

[Harmony]

that's scary. I really didn't know the sea rises and just washes over everything during a hurricane. I always think of them as just really bad thunderstorms with high wind.

My woman calls them 'Typhoons'. In her old country they have Typhoon season every year and I guess it's just a way of life and you get used to it.

Scary stuff.

My son is in Vietnam right now and they just got hit with a Typhoon. Luckily he moved further north so he could avoid it .

Technically West Pacific are called typhoons and Atlantic /East Pacific are called hurricanes .

 

[Bobby Mahogany]

My son is in Vietnam right now and they just got hit with a Typhoon. Luckily he moved further north so he could avoid it .

Technically West Pacific are called typhoons and Atlantic /East Pacific are called hurricanes .

That's a phoon fact to know!

 

[Kamen_Kaiju]

Technically West Pacific are called typhoons and Atlantic /East Pacific are called hurricanes .

Racist!



...well I mean I think everything is these days so it's a safe call to say it is.

 

[K.O.M.A.]

We used to tongue-in-cheek joke in CA that we always needed another fire, or earthquake to get people to move back where they came from.

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We lived through a couple big quakes in CA; I'd take them any day vs. hurricanes. The fires? Well, no so much. But, the hurricanes? Nope. Never wanna go though one of them.

And, yes... I am a pussy!

I'll take a hurricane over an earthquake any day

 

[DavGrape]

Hanging in there...

 

[Midnight Blues]

Hanging in there...
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