Would it be wrong to say... (2024)

By: home*sweet*home
11/4/2012 4:38 PM

I feel somewhat VINDICATED by Irene and Sandy?

When we bought on the Outer Banks, after the "congratulations" we heard the subtext of "Why would you buy there? If your house floods it's your fault..."

Well, now I can say: Tell me a safe place to buy? VERMONT? Which flooded in the MOUNTAINS during Irene? New York City? Which...sadly well we all know...

And now I will stop berating Californians for building on a fault, too...because the earthquake in Virginia last year AND this year...well, who knew?

No safe place.

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By: OBX754
11/4/2012 5:09 PM

I completely agree. Every place has some kind of risk.

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By: obxseastar
11/4/2012 5:47 PM

no matter where you live... it has it's risks... just a matter of what risks you want to take to live there.

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By: obxwanderer
11/4/2012 5:49 PM

Oh pleaaaassssseeee the outer banks suffers more flood and wind related hurricane/noreaster issues than any other place except for maybe a few.

If you build on the outer banks expect something bad cause it's going to happen.

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By: Ilvhtrs
11/4/2012 6:32 PM

Michigan

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By: ganuchyman2
11/4/2012 7:00 PM

Unless you disregard the science...a lot of people in a lot of places will increasingly experience what just happened with Sandy.

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Tee hee. Any controversial topic brings out the

My POINT (and I admit it's obscure) is that when you buy on the banks, you get dinged by those who don't: they say, "WHAT are you thinking, your place will be flooded, blown away...etc."

And MY point was there is no safe place. You can live in VERMONT and get flooded...and we used to think we were safe in VIRGINIA but apparently not as earthquakes are now hitting there each year, etc.

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By: home*sweet*home
11/4/2012 10:17 PM

NOT saying I was glad those places got hit, btw, if that's what the other poster was inferring.

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By: TonyC2639
11/4/2012 10:47 PM

Your point was simple enough to understand home*sweet*home. Not very controversial either. What you are saying is that many areas get hit sooner or later with some malady of Mother Nature and you can't go through life tying to avoid them. I agree. And no one thought you were dissing those in the current disaster area of NY and NJ either. Well no one NORMAL anyway.

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By: pippy
11/5/2012 12:11 AM

Of course bad weather happens everywhere, as I said before. The original poster's point was simply that. But my guess is they knew *how* they said it sounded a bit..controversial if you will...hence their 'would it be wrong to say...' in their title.

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By: kraggman
11/5/2012 10:36 AM

I think the comment by a previous poster is so true. If you live on the coast and get flooded, if you live in the mountains and get 4 feet of snow, if you live in Hawaii and your land is destroyed by a lava flow, if you live in the woods and a forest fire hits ..... well you get the idea. The comment is always made, "Why do they stay there ??" Because it's their personal choice to do so. Period. JMO

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By: obxwanderer
11/5/2012 3:44 PM

I totally agree that you can have bad things happen anywhere, but, the small little strands of sand that sit so precariously out in the Atlantic like the Outer Banks are so very often hit when a storm comes up the coast.

I would not feel vindicated if someone else suffers some calamity especially if I owned property on that little strand of sand cause it's just a matter of time before a Cat 4 or 5 wipes out a village on the outer banks.

Now, if I suddenly came upon some money where I could buy on that little strand of sand my answer would be heck yah!

Chuck

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By: MarvelousMoondance
11/5/2012 4:09 PM

An expatriot friend, now living in FL, often rags me about the snowfall here in WV but rarely mentions hairycane or tornado seasons there. "Buy the ticket, take the ride."

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By: TonyC2639
11/5/2012 4:31 PM

"Buy the ticket, take the ride."

Now I like that one!

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By: Quack27949
11/5/2012 4:40 PM

As another example of home*sweet*home's point on the unpredictibility of nature, some of you may remember hurricane Camille, which slammed into the Mississipi gulf coast in 1969. Camille actually killed 10 times as many people in Nelson County, VA, which is in the mountains about a 4-hour drive from the coast, as it did in Mississipi (or any other state).

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By: Beachmark
11/5/2012 5:10 PM

It's the frequency of strong storms that get you on the OBX. But that happens on the Gulf Coast too and donw in the Bahamas and central Carribean.

And BTW, Camille actually killed over 300 in LA (mostly around Pass Christian Parish) and over 150 in Nelson Co, VA. (My apologies, Quack, just trying to be accurate there...) The Gulf coast gets hit regularly, but you never expect to get an estimated 27+ inches of rain in the Appalachians in a matter of <24 hours. So it happens many places, just the probability varies.

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By: backage
11/5/2012 5:58 PM

I think he is just trying to say anything can happen anywhere.And there is always going to be the people who say stuff about building on sand that is always shifting.(I dont think they like the beach)I live up here in NY and come there since 1993 and I have fire Island 3 miles across the Great South Bay and they got slammed,And people say the same thing why would you build?Everyone be safe.

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By: Quack27949
11/5/2012 7:17 PM

That's what I get for relying on Wikipedia!

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By: sandpiper
11/5/2012 7:26 PM

Tornado Alley. People still live there!

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