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...practice has very real effects. Despite the fact that the Colorado forecasts have been unreliable of late, the insurance industry still uses them as gospel to make their own calculations. That has contributed to the skyrocketing windstorm premiums that have forced many Florida residents to leave the state. For the past two years the South Florida Water Management District, reacting to the diluvial warnings, has drained water from Lake Okeechobee, one of the peninsula's most vital hydrosources, to avoid storm flooding. Because the deluges never came, this has helped exacerbate Florida's recent drought...
Every available table was spoken for at St. Louis Coffee Oasis on Friday morning at 10:30. Word had spread that this 14-table coffee shop in the city's Central West End neighborhood still had free wireless Internet. After Wednesday night's windstorm that pummeled the city, damaged Busch Stadium and left 500,000 without power, the Internet is as coveted as ice or flashlights...
...Inevitably, there was talk among Floridians about moving elsewhere in the country, especially since windstorm insurance is already so exorbitant that it might as well be the state's income tax. "My 80-year-old parents feel caught between a rock and a hard place," said a woman who had come from New Jersey to Pompano Beach to care for them. "How many times a year can they deal with roofs being blown off and medications running out?" But then the sun comes out, the beaches calm down, the golf courses beckon and the perverse mask of paradise...
...these circumstances is listen to the finish of the car being grit-blasted away. Even with the windows closed, the dirt piles up on the dashboard and gathers in the folds of clothes and collects on the tongue. Coming as it does right out of the blue, a windstorm of such muscle is enough to give the intestate a remorseful heart...
WIND AND HAIL POLICY In regions at high risk for severe wind and hail, insurance companies often exclude coverage for windstorm-related losses from homeowner policies. Don't despair: you can still insure your home. Several states, including Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, North Carolina and South Carolina, have set up a special state-run windstorm pool to fund policies...