What's more current than the weather?

[Luce]

How you folks survive that shit is beyond me. I spent my whole life cold and this is why I will never leave Arizona.

115F summers are worth it.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by DanaC

Compared to some of the floods in other parts of the world it is relatively small scale...

Damn hard to maintain perspective where it's your shit underwater.

Originally Posted by Luce

How you folks survive that shit is beyond me. I spent my whole life cold and this is why I will never leave Arizona.
115F summers are worth it.

With the climate change you'll be able to visit Utah, and maybe during a heat wave Colorado.

[Griff]

Nothing quite like the smell of black mold in someone's home.

[DanaC]

Originally Posted by Griff

Nothing quite like the smell of black mold in someone's home.

Yeah. Not nice.

i've had a few heartbreaking cases this past week or so. One woman had spent most of her redundancy payout on doing up her house which her recently deceased father had left to her. She'd clearly poured herself into that house over the last 12 months and got it just right just in time for Christmas and bang - she's in a Travelodge living out of a suitcase while raw sewage is pumped out of the floor void from overloaded drains that backed up and flowed into several houses on her street.

Brand new kitchen fucked - brand new laminate flooring fucked - brand new fridge freezer fucked.

What's really sad is that most of our policies (most policies generally I think) only cover the damaged items in a suite not the undamaged items, so base units in the kitchen are beyond repair, but the wall units are fine, we only pay to replace the base units. We usually offer a 50% contribution towards the cost of replacing the undamaged ones, if there's no way to replace with an identical match, but for a full kitchen replacement, that can add several hundred, possibly a thousand pounds in out of pocket expense for the policyholder.

[Luce]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Damn hard to maintain perspective where it's your shit underwater.


With the climate change you'll be able to visit Utah, and maybe during a heat wave Colorado.

It's more likely that everything North of Boston will freeze solid when the gulf current craps out. It's more or less already happening (the gulf current slowdown.)

We here in the high desert will be setting up barricades. We don't want anyone from New Hampshire screwing the place up like they did to New Orleans.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by Luce

It's more likely that everything North of Boston will freeze solid when the gulf current craps out. It's more or less already happening (the gulf current slowdown.)

We here in the high desert will be setting up barricades. We don't want anyone from New Hampshire screwing the place up like they did to New Orleans.