It’s not the wind that will cause the most damage. It will be
the flooding if the storm stalls and takes a couple days to
move out and the rain to stop. That is what they think it
will do.
Important thing to remember - a lot of insurance policies will cover seepage, but you have to have flood insurance to cover rising water.
At least, that was the rule after Katrina. I haven’t really kept up with hurricane law in the last 10 years.
“It’s not the wind that will cause the most damage. It will be
the flooding if the storm stalls and takes a couple days to
move out and the rain to stop.”
indeed. and the worst flood damage is where the rivers full of rainwater from higher elevations all converge near the coasts, particularly when those flood waters arrive to meet ocean surges being blown ashore by hurricane winds ...