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Not much happens in Oregon, but I'm pretty sure the cost of homeowners here helps rebuild there. If the damage was wind, the insurance company (and all its policyholders) has to foot the bill. Some companies won't issue new homeowner policies in Florida. If the damage was due to rising water, the damage is covered by a separate flood insurance policy that is subsidized by the Feds (and all taxpayers). So either way, we pay for expensive beachfront property development. The Fed program was supposed to pay for itself thru premiums, but (as of 2017) it was $25 billion in debt. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Flood_Insurance_Program
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Not much happens in Oregon, but I'm pretty sure the cost of homeowners here helps rebuild there. Columbus day storm. I was only 2, but still hear the oldsters talk about it.
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I seriously doubt a block house costs more then a stick built home and especially considering the amount of steel brackets that are involved. with a stickbuilt one as opposed to masonry. The Roof will have strapping just like a stick built home . The costs are comparable, with the masonry frame costing a bit more. Figure in lower insurance and energy costs, and the lifecycle costs turn in favor of the masonry frame design. The Carolina Concrete Masonry Association has been promoting this for many years, with limited success. Everyone gets complacent until a big storm hits. My brother builds either stick, block or poured depending on the architect or designer plans. He has built a few insulblock homes and the latest home he is working on is 3500 square foot with poured concrete walls,floors and roof with a swimming pool on the second story. Only wood in the house is the interior wall partitions, cabinets and trim work. When I retire I will buy either an old block home and have him renovate it or scratch built masonry house.
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Maybe a good time to go down and look for investment properties. When the F5 tornado went through Joplin, you could buy the bare lots for pennies on the dollar. You will have to outbid the big condo builders. After each catastrophic landfall, they rebuild with more condos and fewer single family units. In the past 50 years, post-hurricane development has transformed the Gulf Coast from a string of sleepy fishing villages into hundreds of miles of beach-front high rises. In the 1960s you could buy a 100 foot wide beachfront lot in Orange Beach Alabama for $10,000. Today that empty lot would set you back over $1 million. As a result, the working people can no longer afford to live anywhere near the beach.
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"And what sorrow awaits you Philistines who live along the coast and in the land of Canaan, for this judgment is against you, too! The LORD will destroy you until not one of you is left."
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Not much happens in Oregon, but I'm pretty sure the cost of homeowners here helps rebuild there. Columbus day storm. I was only 2, but still hear the oldsters talk about it. Today is the anniversary of that storm, October 12, 1962. So yeah, I guess something happened in Oregon before I was born. LOL. Hopefully the poor insurance companies have recovered from the damages claims by now. As if anyone had insurance in 1962.
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Can't believe they still had jets at Tyndall! Those jets you refer to are relics that were on static display. . . . I think Tyrone was referring to the jets, inside the hangar, that were destroyed. They either didn't have enough pilots to ferry them out or they were not in flyable condition. I don't know the difference! 
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Maybe a good time to go down and look for investment properties. When the F5 tornado went through Joplin, you could buy the bare lots for pennies on the dollar. You will have to outbid the big condo builders. After each catastrophic landfall, they rebuild with more condos and fewer single family units. In the past 50 years, post-hurricane development has transformed the Gulf Coast from a string of sleepy fishing villages into hundreds of miles of beach-front high rises. In the 1960s you could buy a 100 foot wide beachfront lot in Orange Beach Alabama for $10,000. Today that empty lot would set you back over $1 million. As a result, the working people can no longer afford to live anywhere near the beach. And if you already own a lot there, and the condo or McMansion builders surround you, the property taxes will run you out. I lived at Wrightsville Beach, NC from the mid-50's to the mid-60's, before the boom hit. Personally know numerous families gave up their beach homes (primary residences) to move into Wilmington because property taxes got so high.
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Can't believe they still had jets at Tyndall! Those jets you refer to are relics that were on static display. . . . I think Tyrone was referring to the jets, inside the hangar, that were destroyed. They either didn't have enough pilots to ferry them out or they were not in flyable condition. Those are not jets in the hangar. They may or may not be military but I'm not aware the USAF ever purchased any MU2 aircraft from Mitusbishi. It may not be located at Tyndall. There are numerous airports in the area. ![[Linked Image]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Mitsubishi_MU-2B_AN1706942.jpg/300px-Mitsubishi_MU-2B_AN1706942.jpg) ![[Linked Image]](https://i.imgur.com/l7o48tK.jpg)
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