Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for October 16, 2024

Katrina was a big one, a 500 year big one, but I think storms hitting that part of the Northern Gulf Coast are pretty rare.

Lie with a straight face?

Many of us just went through different thousand year events. Move to higher ground, tornadoes are a lot smaller.

No guarantees on weather?

All they have also includes a limited life span of far fewer years that might not be able to face the need to move again after a devastating storm.

Do we know yet exactly where “here” is? The last I heard, “here” was somewhere along the Gulf coast. There’s a fair amount of real estate that can make that claim.

How can you tell a realtor’s lying? Her lips are moving. (Just kidding realtors).

And Florida had a long stretch, 20 years or so, of not being hit by hurricanes. Not a guarantee.

I wonder if JJ wrote this theme before or after the last 2 hurricanes?

Been in Florida since the 80’s. Never left for a hurricane. While on vacation my house sitter decided to head north and brought my cat along. My cats first vacation. Now my cat just looks at me and says, you never take me anywhere. OH, my cat turned 19 September 3, so she never left for a storm before either.

If you haven’t had a bad storm in years you are due or overdue for a bad storm. If they move fast they can get settled in before it hits. How many years? Two?

Yeah, Babe.

I’m afraid that’s what a lot of people in the small towns south of Tampa Bay were saying. I personally know a woman who just moved there from Tennessee with her husband and two children just a few months ago, and they just had their brand new house heavily damaged by Milton. They had evacuated to a shelter all the way down in Miami, where she started having panic attacks for the first time in her life. When they finally got back home, the house was still standing and habitable, but there’s still no power. They’ve been trying to keep their kids entertained with box games by candlelight.

Arlo and Janis should listen to Trying to Reason with Hurricane Season by Jimmy Buffett before making a decision.

Rained all day yesterday in Salem, OR: total – 0.51 mm (0.02"), just enough for the raindrops on the driveway to connect. So, I guess the rainy season has officially started.

Zillow has started to add climate data to their listings trying to guess whether your house will be hit by a flood or wild fire. An article I read yesterday said that because of the data it uses, it probably underestimates the likelihood of a fire and overestimates the likelihood of a flood. No guarantees either way.

Certainly not as a weather forecaster…..

That means a real whopper is coming (or has come, Milton)…

Living in Oklahoma, I’ve been dodging tornadoes all my life. Luckily, we have the absolute best meteorologists in the world. Plus a nice little storm shelter.

Nice artwork today. The various angles, the glowing airborne sparks.

Chicago snow storms cause car crashes, and a few collapsed roofs every 10 years. Enough snow melt can cause serious flooding, around here and in St. Louis, when they open the dams on the Mississippi. No mud slides, though. Tornados are a problem from time to time.

There is no truly “safe” place. Just ask the people of Virginia, Tennessee and North Carolina who have just suffered from the effects of Helene. This is just a taste of the future. The climates they are a’changing. I’m glad I’m old so I’ll be gone before it gets too much worse.

Ah, they must live in California.

Yes you too can get 6% for pointing out the obvious. Realtors are the biggest scam in the country

Really like the artwork and framing of today’s comic.

Or we could have the wealthy global citizens not BLOW OFF climate change affects!

Didn’t her dad already point out that they are at the expensive part of the real estate cycle because people have forgotten the last major hurricane? That means he has seen it happen multiple times. Having their possessions and life savings wiped out once is more than I would want to risk at their age.

Every place has its weather disasters but moving anywhere near an ocean is just asking for it. A and J should stay put.

“…so it’s about due.”

About time there is a baby !

I need to clarify something I posted yesterday. I live on the Gulf Coast. Natural disasters are a fact of life no matter where you go. I have remained in my home through too many hurricanes to count along with tornados, and other forms of horrible weather events. You just know just to be prepared and take it seriously. I still stand by my comment, Jimmy needs to get on with the story line.

Western NC is much higher ground. It didn’t do them any good.

Looked up home owners insurance in florida, just curious, their insurance premiums would pay 8 months mortgage payments where I live. Oh, and that’s if you can get it.

“Winter is Coming!” Well, hurricanes anyway. Even if they’re not here this year, there’s always next year to worry about.