From being worried about selling and buying and everything in between, now I’m
anxious about tropical hurricanes. At least Earl is not heading directly to Miami but happening to also own property in other parts of the Eastern seaboard (namely Emerald Isle, NC), there is always an opportunity to worry about the effects of any hurricane spinning its way towards the East coast of the USA.
For Emerald Isle being on the Southern part of the Outer Banks rather than the extreme Eastern tip of the state, it has the advantage that most of the hurricanes barely skim the continent and don’t usually go directly inland. Because the hurricane winds in the Atlantic spin in a counterclockwise fashion, the winds hitting Emerald Isle tend to come, not directly from the open ocean, but after going over the land of the Eastern part of North Carolina. At least that was what I hoped when we purchased our Emerald Isle home about 8 years ago.
I was just talking to my Dad this last weekend about the difference of owning a ho
use and the land under it, versus owning only a fraction of the property as when owning a condominium. When you own the land and a house, you and only you are responsible for pretty much everything that happens. When you own in a condo, the pain is shared with others and if the building is built to withstand strong winds, the chances of losing everything are reduced.
Tomorrow evening (Thursday) at around this time, Earl is expected to be near NC , and just at the day break of Friday we will probably know how NC faired the storm. Hope that people have listened to the warnings and decide to take the proper precautions. By then I should know whether I could stay here watching out for the next few storms, or whether I need to start preparing to travel to NC to take care of business over there. We shall see.
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