I've heard of some here (Treasure Coast) getting cancelled because their roof had reached 20 years old but they never had a claim. It drove a pretty amazing amount of roof activity in my area, most of them metal. Some pretty huge solar arrays going up on those new roofs too. I've run the numbers for solar and it makes good sense for my place basically locking in energy costs for a good long time. But I'm not convinced that solar is going to survive serious weather so I need to see something here stronger than a tropical storm before I pull the trigger. There is so much dust coming off the Sahara right now it would be very hard for hurricanes to form off Africa. Far more likely to get something developed off Panama that ends up in the Gulf.
I just dropped 40k on my roof. I called the insurance company and told them "completely new roof, I just paid for. How much do I get back in premium?" I got back $26.14 Bastards
That is messed up. Congrats on the new roof though. They simply use replacement cost... period and no consideration given to condition etc.
Once again the State of Florida under Gov. DeSantis fudges up its reporting of Covid data to the CDC -- this time reporting cases of zero in every county by leaving it blank. Of course, this hid the high infection rate in some Florida counties. The DeSantis administration will do everything possible to avoid allowing people in South Florida knowing the CDC recommends that everyone wear masks indoors due to high infection rates -- including having the Florida Department of Public Health spokesman says that he sleeps on weekends when asked for guidance. All of South Florida moves into high COVID risk category after ‘processing error‘ in state’s data https://www.sun-sentinel.com/corona...0220521-mg56qdeu7vemjabtn42tslo5pu-story.html All three South Florida counties have high COVID-19 community levels, despite the most recent data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control showing the region having medium levels. The difference between the levels is significant. The CDC recommends that people in areas with high community levels should wear masks indoors in public places and lists additional precautions for high-risk people. The change is reealed in a footnote to the data released on Thursday, which says that a “data processing error” left Florida’s per capita case rate blank in every county. The rate is one of several factors — including hospitalizations and testing positivity — used to calculate community transmission levels.. “Of note, Broward, Miami-Dade, Palm Beach Counties should have appeared in the high CCL category, and Osceola County should have appeared in the medium CCL category,” the CDC footnote reads. Below is the map that incorporates the CDC footnote: Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade counties’ positivity rates are all over 17%,levels not seen since early February. And COVID-related hospitalizations have increased to their highest levels in more than 10 weeks, though critical-care patients are not increasing at the same pace. And Florida’s cases have been steadily climbing since mid-March, with the seven-day average for new cases reaching 8,178 on Friday, the highest level since mid-February. The number is likely severely undercounted due to the number of people taking at-home tests and not reporting results to state health officials. Jason Salemi, an epidemiologist and associate professor at the University of South Florida, noted that nearly a third of Floridians live in South Florida and do not have accurate information on their risk levels. “Although these data issues will arise from time to time, to me, the bigger problem is that the data suggested that the three largest counties in Florida, in which 3 in 10 Floridians reside, should be in the “high” community level,” Salemi told the South Florida Sun Sentinel. “That’s important because there is a substantial shift in the CDC’s mitigation guidance when an area shifts into the ‘high’ level, including the recommendation for everyone to ‘wear a well-fitting mask indoors in public, regardless of vaccination status’.” COVID-related hospitalizations in Florida are up nearly 50% in the past two weeks, with 1,981 in the state’s hospitals as of Friday, according to the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services. “It must be extremely frustrating for people, businesses, and communities to make responsible decisions when one of the primary and most well-known federal tools for assessing “community risk” was so misleading,” Salemi said Saturday. The CDC did not respond to a Saturday morning request for comment. The Florida Dept. of Public Health also did not respond to a request for comment and guidance for Floridians on the new information. But on Twitter spokesman Jeremy Redfern noted that he sleeps in on weekends. Just after 9:30 p.m. Saturday, he answered the Sun Sentinel’s request for comment, writing in an email that he would check with the department’s epidemiologists on Monday.
So the health of people in Florida is so unimportant that proper warnings about high infection levels can wait till Monday. Yeah, whatever.
No, dopey. But when they send a request for early Sat morning, the man is human. He sleeps in. And he had no request in his inbox in the first place.