2024 Hurricane season

[norty1]

Today is the last day of the season. It basically destroyed many places that we camp regularly.

Good riddance to it and prayers for all that are still suffering.

[JFlightRisk]

It has been a rough year for weather disasters in a lot of parts of the country. Hopefully campgrounds will persevere and rebuild. It will be a long time to get back to normal for a lot of people and places. Here's to a better 2025.

[TaftCoach]

For the first half of my life living in northern Illinois and always traveling north, these things were short news stories that I hardly noticed.

Living on the Texas Coast for a decade or so and traveling up and down the east coast, I really understand the major life altering destruction that follow hurricanes.

[Jayhawk 29]

I have lived my entire life planning for and witnessing hurricanes. This season was indeed a little different, for a fewer number of storms. While we were lucky that the number of hurricanes did not make it thru the alphabet, it was a strange season for where the major storms made up. Prep time and where the severe damage occurred was certainly a bit different.


While most of the major storms that have hit the east coast in the curved areas brings about the intense feeder bands and create damage inland, having all the water running down the mountain sides did the extreme damage this time around, that most tornadoes and winds have done in the past, targeted in certain areas would not have done.

There are a couple of private groups that's been assisting in setting up donated rvs for some of the locals in the mountain region outside of the major cities. There are way too many families left without anything and no real insurance to offset some of their losses.

The flood insurance program that folks are familiar with in low lying areas are rarely used or even accepted in most of the hard hit areas this time around . While this program still has a cap, it would have covered the value on a lot of the more remote areas and the property values .

The horrible financial stories of people with mortgages on land and homes that no longer exist now will be felt for years as the region attempts to recover.

[OnTheGo]

Originally Posted by norty1

Today is the last day of the season. It basically destroyed many places that we camp regularly.

Good riddance to it and prayers for all that are still suffering.

X2.

Pictured are Englewood Beach Parking Lot and a house that washed onto the road as a result of Milton's storm surge.

Any vehicle that could haul sand delivered it to the beach parking lot. From there it was sifted (cleaned) and put back on the beach.

This area has been hit hard in recent times. In 2022 we were on the eye-wall of Ian and haven't fully recovered from it yet.

[camjam]

Originally Posted by norty1

Today is the last day of the season. It basically destroyed many places that we camp regularly.

Good riddance to it and prayers for all that are still suffering.

We live in SW Fl. and the area has had major impact with the last 3 hurricanes.
On top of it all we usually spend summers in Maggie Valley and that was out for us this year. Luckily we didn't personally have any damage except for major tree damage. (we live on acreage) Feel sorry for all the people who have had flooding from all 3.

[norty1]

This past season was particularly trying for us and so many others in Florida and NC. Where we are on the SC coast it's a thing we deal with each year. This year the folks in W. NC gor smacked with flooding from the last several of the season and they just hardly ever have an impact like they are still suffering from. So many dead and missing are still in the Ashville, Swananoah area.

My son had just moved to central Florida just before Helena hit and they hardly got any damage in their leased house. They moved to another house to get better internet and cell service and 2 weeks later Milton hit and flooded the place they just moved out of. Fortunately the new place had only minor damage.