LOL -- not laughing at Texans predicament -- and our own -- but the thoughts here that the insurance costs in Texas are linked to "inflation", and not to billion dollar disasters piling up end-to-end in the state. I wonder if they wrote this article before Houston last week. 🤔 #Texas#Insurance#disasters#climate
From @mattlanza (posted elsewhere, but he has an account here he does respond to occasionally)
"For those of you scoring at home, Houston has endured.
2015: Memorial Day flood
2016: Tax Day flood
2017: Harvey
2019: TS Imelda
2020: TS Beta
2021: Grid collapse due to freeze, Hurricane Nicholas
2022: Extreme summer heat/drought
2023: Hottest summer on record
2024: Derecho"
Seeing a lot of WEA/EAS messages being sent to Barnsdall, Oklahoma... It appears they have few other communications tools with residents after tornadoes hit the town several days ago. #OKwx#comms#Barnsdall#ef3
Resource list for Barnsdall, OK -- maybe useful for other folks for disaster prep. They were just hit by a tornado. First on the list is "Tetanus shots"! #disasterpreparedness#disasters#disasterprep
FEMA update on the tornado outbreak earlier today: "Over the weekend 127 tornado touchdowns, 149 wind reports, and 173 hail reports have been reported in Regions VI and VII. The severe weather threat has diminished greatly." #FEMA#tornado#disasters
"A new study from the University of Kansas found residents of one Seoul, South Korea, neighborhood have grown so accustomed to living through extreme climate events they have developed a "disaster subculture" ... Residents regularly expressed a sort of indifference to extreme heat and climate change, stating they had no options or even that "every day is a disaster."
"Experts told me that the skyrocketing rates are caused by a combination of high inflation, especially in the prices of building supplies, and Texas’s recent series of natural disasters. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, between 1980 and 2023 Texas experienced an average of four natural disasters per year with damages in excess of $1 billion—droughts, floods, storms, tornadoes, wildfires, and winter storms. In recent years, such disasters have become much more frequent. Between 2019 and 2023 Texas suffered an average of eleven billion-dollar events each year, with sixteen in 2023 alone. " #climate#disasters#texas#insurance#TXwx