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Originally posted by Dawgy
ok im starting to doubt this whole florida thing... how much longer is hurricane season & is this a normal amount of storms to have so fast?
maybe i should go back to the desert
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Palm Beach County hasn't been hit direct since 1928. So we've been lucky for 76 years.
Consider also Florida has 400 miles of coast on the east side and 800 miles on the Gulf side.
The real devastation of a major hurricane is usually about 40 miles wide path at most.
So on the east side you've got a 1 in 10 chance of a hit and on the west side 1 in 20 and combined a 1 in 30.
So the odds are actually pretty small of really getting nailed hard.
The one in 1928 that hit here direct in PBC killed 1,800 people who died because of the massive flooding it caused.