Milton strengthens to Category 5 hurricane

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Milton strengthens to Category 5 hurricane
abcnews.go.com

Milton rapidly intensified to a Category 5 hurricane late Monday morning.

Within hours, Milton strengthened to a Category 2, then a Category 3, then a Category 4 and finally a Category 5.

Milton now ranks as the third-greatest 24-hour wind speed intensification for a hurricane in the Atlantic Basin. (Records are based on data since the satellite era began in the 1960s.)

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If your policy covers wind they claim the damage is from water. If your policy covers water, they claim the damage is from wind. If your policy covers both, they claim a hurricane is exempt as an act of god.

I want to bitch about insurance companies but insurance is for something that is unavoidable.

All this shit is becoming more and more avoidable.

Which, to be fair, is really about all they can do. You CANNOT stop a hurricane from obliterating a house. There is NOTHING the average American can do about it except leave and hope it survives.

Then its dishonest to accept money for your fake business.

they are not real businesses in the insurance sense. its all federal money for flood insurance. they're just servicers kinda like mortgage originators.