For ONCE , I wish one would arrive in the daytime!!
Oh yeah, I almost forgot- I checked off “riding out a hurricane on a boat” from my bucket list during Andrew (1992)in Miami. Oh yes I did!
I lived aboard, and had no insurance so I paid attention-not a scratch. Went down to Islamorada and Brazil for several months afterwards.
I’m glad my wife is in Europe so I don’t have to be fretting about her safety. I’ll wait til the eye hits land before I prep.
That's a valid point. Born in Florida, lived here my whole life. I have been through I can't remember how many dozen hurricanes in 40 years and can only remember 2 where the bulk of the storm hit during daytime. One I rode out on my old boat. I had just bought it and within an hour of the closing I got a notice from the insurance company saying that because there was a named storm in the region they had suspended writing any new policies. I figured that was too much money to lose, so I bought every pre-cut rope west marine had and made a big spider web out of them tied to multiple different pilings on all sides to/from every cleat on the boat, plus both anchors down, and stayed onboard. It was a cement dock, so I figured if that boat went anywhere it would have to be some real Day After Tomorrow stuff and it wouldn't matter anyway. Came through fine minus one cracked salon window.
Random side note, the marina the boat was in when I bought it was owned by a company called loggerhead. I'd intended to move the boat but the storm wound up with me staying longer than I thought I would, so I rented the slip for another month, their rates were so lopsided that it was cheaper than paying for a week. They called my cell phone at like 4pm the day before the storm was supposed to arrive and said we're checking everybody's insurance, bring a copy to the office or you'll have to leave. I said well funny story, I can't get insurance because a hurricane got named right when I bought the boat, here's the letter from them. Corporate told the guy I had to leave. At this point it's like 5pm, the storm was supposed to be there the next morning, and some guy in their corproate office somewhere is screaming at the marina manager to call the cops on me. I said I'm not leaving are you nuts. Call the pope if you want, you took my money for slip rent, and you touch my lines you can expect a response. Never heard anything else from them. When I went to pay my bill, manager guy apologized and said he thought it was ridiculous. I will never give that company another dollar as long as I live.
The other one hit abnormally late that year, I was home for thanksgiving and rode it out with my parents. Howling wind, the cupola flew off the garage and smashed into the back of the house. Went driving around during the eye.
