The NYT................................Marshalltown???
Lions and tigers and bears......................................OH MY!
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The NYT................................Marshalltown???
Lions and tigers and bears......................................OH MY!
True. The storms that went traipsing through southwest Iowa a few weeks ago wound up causing a lot of damage, even though they avoided densely populated portions of the Omaha metro.
Ankeny just announced, out 2 hours early.
Depends. A local area got between 5-7 in the worst. Drove to Algona on 18 it’s a sheetshow. A lot of replant coming.
An hour in a FEMA shelter with 1500 high school kids was enough for my scent senses today.
For property types it's the hail in particular that gets very expensive very quickly. Some insurers starting to pull out of states which is problematic if you are trying to get a bank-backed mortgage.
Just got our umbrella policy raise notice Friday.
If I put a funnel in a container, then dump as much water as I can in the funnel causing it to overflow does that mean the container below is automatically full?
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Hearing Cedar Rapids mentioned caught me off guard as well.The NYT had a podcast last week that talked about how the home insurance industry was losing money in 20+ states. They also mentioned how it was hitting unexpected areas, and that example was Marshalltown.
The Possible Collapse of the U.S. Home Insurance System
A Times investigation found climate change may now be a concern for every homeowner in the country.www.nytimes.com
So is this next round supposed to be worse in the DSM area? Do they know when it's expected to hit? If school doesn't let out early I'm trying to figure out what to do with my kids...
Give it time, they'll let out early. The announcements are starting to roll in.
First question - do they know how to swim? Second question - what would @snowcraig2.0 do?
I'm just trying to save myself some cash by avoiding the counseling that would be required if my son gets stuck on a bus during a bad storm. Kid got his mother's fear of storms. As a ride-it-out-on-the-porch-with-a-busch-light guy, it truly breaks my heart to think about what he will miss out on if he can't figure out a way to address his anxiety.
I worked at WF Home Mortgage in the late 90's. My job involved forced place insurance on people that didn't have coverage. Even 25+ years ago, it was ungodly expensive. We nearly forced placed insurance on a popular actor and the premium would have been $25k+ per month. Just hazard, not wind, quake, flood, etc.
