I’ve been accessing the National Hurricane Center website for several days. Hurricane Gustav could very well hit west of New Orleans and rake up against the coast to Houston before it starts going inland. I’ve been *****ing about the poorly funded Texas Windstorm Association all year and how the low reserves is keeping new carriers from entering Texas. This could be a cat 4 or 5 hurricane and match or surpass the damage caused by Katrina. If is unfortunate that it may take a second major hurricane to wake up insurance regulators into properly funding the windstorm association and require insured’s to rebuild according to much stricter building codes.
If this hurricane hits Houston and the rest of the Texas coastline, maybe we should just give Texas back to Mexico in exchange for taking back their citizens and ridding us of the illegal alien problem we have. I think it would be a good trade.
Learn your history Compman. Texas fought for and won its freedom from Mexico and was an independent nation when it accepted an offer to become part of the United States in 1845. Texas is the only state that can decide to split into five different states thus giving it 10 senators rather than 2. Most important, Texas has the legal right to return to its status as an independent nation.
The root of the illegal immigrant/worker problem is caused by employers that will hire Mexican workers for cheaper wages than US citizens. This problem is nationwide and has not just Texas.
Kent – you got interesting facts. I’m wondering, wasn’t MOST of the damage from Katrina due to the failure of the levee’s, and not the hurricane itself? So, if Gustav hits TX, then are their similar levee’s with significant chance of failure? (I don’t know the answer – i from da’ Nort)
You are correct about Katrina in regards to the damage it did in New Orleans. However, Katrina’s high winds and storm surge laid waste to about everything east of New Orleans across coastal Mississippi to Mobile. One of the primary storm tracks on the NHC (National Hurricane Center) website shows Gustav starting to turn west before it hits the coast west of New Orleans and riding along the coastline until it enters Galveston Bay and hits Houston. This entire area is barely above sea level and even a small storm surge will put it underwater. That is why FEMA and the Texas DPS tried to evacuate 4 million people living between Beaumont and Houston when hurricane Rita hit after Katrina – all lanes coming out of Houston were one way going north or west. This could have a significant national inpact in that the world’s largest concentration of petrochemical plants is in this area – particularly Galveston Bay. About 25% of the US crude oil production is in the gulf and about 35% of our refining capacity is between New Orleans and Houston – particulary Texas City in Galveston Bay. Refineries are very sturdy but, their operations may have to be shut down for weeks.
The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association recently purchased more reinsurance but, still doesn’t have the capacity to pay for a hurricane like Katrina if makes landfall in Galveston Bay or Corpus Christi.
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the busses are fueled and running. Are there any insurance carriers left in Lousiana?
I went to the Jamaica last year – It was nice.
Houston – evacuate, fill up your gas tanks and run for the hill. There is a hurricane over Jamaica!!!!
Build a levee, pump the water out and more water will come. Guaranteed. Idiots!!
I’ve been accessing the National Hurricane Center website for several days. Hurricane Gustav could very well hit west of New Orleans and rake up against the coast to Houston before it starts going inland. I’ve been *****ing about the poorly funded Texas Windstorm Association all year and how the low reserves is keeping new carriers from entering Texas. This could be a cat 4 or 5 hurricane and match or surpass the damage caused by Katrina. If is unfortunate that it may take a second major hurricane to wake up insurance regulators into properly funding the windstorm association and require insured’s to rebuild according to much stricter building codes.
If this hurricane hits Houston and the rest of the Texas coastline, maybe we should just give Texas back to Mexico in exchange for taking back their citizens and ridding us of the illegal alien problem we have. I think it would be a good trade.
Learn your history Compman. Texas fought for and won its freedom from Mexico and was an independent nation when it accepted an offer to become part of the United States in 1845. Texas is the only state that can decide to split into five different states thus giving it 10 senators rather than 2. Most important, Texas has the legal right to return to its status as an independent nation.
The root of the illegal immigrant/worker problem is caused by employers that will hire Mexican workers for cheaper wages than US citizens. This problem is nationwide and has not just Texas.
Kent – you got interesting facts. I’m wondering, wasn’t MOST of the damage from Katrina due to the failure of the levee’s, and not the hurricane itself? So, if Gustav hits TX, then are their similar levee’s with significant chance of failure? (I don’t know the answer – i from da’ Nort)
Selective is saying their prayer that they don’t have big exposure in texas.
You are correct about Katrina in regards to the damage it did in New Orleans. However, Katrina’s high winds and storm surge laid waste to about everything east of New Orleans across coastal Mississippi to Mobile. One of the primary storm tracks on the NHC (National Hurricane Center) website shows Gustav starting to turn west before it hits the coast west of New Orleans and riding along the coastline until it enters Galveston Bay and hits Houston. This entire area is barely above sea level and even a small storm surge will put it underwater. That is why FEMA and the Texas DPS tried to evacuate 4 million people living between Beaumont and Houston when hurricane Rita hit after Katrina – all lanes coming out of Houston were one way going north or west. This could have a significant national inpact in that the world’s largest concentration of petrochemical plants is in this area – particularly Galveston Bay. About 25% of the US crude oil production is in the gulf and about 35% of our refining capacity is between New Orleans and Houston – particulary Texas City in Galveston Bay. Refineries are very sturdy but, their operations may have to be shut down for weeks.
The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association recently purchased more reinsurance but, still doesn’t have the capacity to pay for a hurricane like Katrina if makes landfall in Galveston Bay or Corpus Christi.