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stevendemars
USA
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 Posted - 03/23/2004 : 20:00:26
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Just curious if all you experienced people out there have a consensus as to the best place to live to be in the center of things . . . The most desirable location for the purpose of being deployed . . . .
Texas too far south?
California too far west?
etc . . .
Steve
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JimF
USA
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Posted - 03/23/2004 : 20:23:51
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Have you counted how many hurricanes have hit North Carolina in the past 5 years versus all other locations?
If you're looking for hail, Go West Young Man.
PS: Rumor has it that they are looking for a lot more adjusters down in Texas! They only have 39,000 or so, give or take a handful, and it is, after all, a rather big place. |
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KLS
USA
10 Posts |
Posted - 03/23/2004 : 21:44:50
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This is what I really like about this career: Freedom of living where I want to. You can truly live just about anywhere you want to -- even out of an RV fulltime. If you are good at what you do the vendors will send you anywhere (even world wide). If you're not so good or a newbie it still doesn't matter much if you can get to the storm site in about 48 hours or so. If you're a terrible adjuster, you could live in the same town as the storm and no one would call you.
But realistically our bread and butter CAT work is wind/hail which usually shows up between Canada and Mexico, East of the Rockies and West of say Pennsylvania.
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gloverb
USA
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Posted - 03/23/2004 : 21:47:24
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I think that one of the beauties of this business is that it allows us to live pretty much where we want. I live in central Texas which is pretty much within a day or two of the east or west coast.
When I worked Isabel out of Richmond, VA I met an adjuster that lived in Calif. on the west coast. He had flown out, bought a truck when he got there, & planned to sell it when he left. I don't know that I would do it that way, he said that he had been doing it that way for years, & that it worked for him.
To answer your question, "I don't think that it matters where you live!" Live where you want to make your home. You can make it work where ever you live. |
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Tom Toll
USA
154 Posts |
Posted - 03/24/2004 : 10:52:04
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| Just don't move to Arkansas. We don't need 39,000 adjusters here. It is, however, a good central state to go anywhere. Climate sucks on occassion though. Tornadoes, ice, and some snow, but life is not perfect. |
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ckleisch
USA
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Posted - 03/26/2004 : 14:22:25
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| I live in NE NC and I am always right in the middle of everything. i am 4 hours maximum from most of the central seaboard and stay busy all year especially after storms and everyone else has gone home. |
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PBMAX
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Posted - 03/30/2004 : 15:43:53
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GOOD TOPIC [HUMORS & STIMULATING]
KEEP IT GOING |
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LarryW
USA
126 Posts |
Posted - 03/30/2004 : 21:10:43
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| If you want to be in the center of earthquake claims, move to California. Tornadoes, move to Oklahoma. Hail calims Colorado Springs, CO. (the hail capitol of the U.S.). Flood claims, New Orleans or North Carolina. Wind claims, maybe the windy city. Go figure. |
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Edited by - LarryW on 03/31/2004 17:04:49 |
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alanporco
USA
112 Posts |
Posted - 03/30/2004 : 23:10:42
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| I live in L.A. I like the weather, I can golf year round whenever I'm not working. I fly if need be. I prefer to drive mainly because I've gotten to see areas of this great country that I otherwise surely would never have seen. This is truly a glorious continent. We are blessed. |
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Todd Summers
USA
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Posted - 03/30/2004 : 23:15:52
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LarryW, Co. Springs is interesting, please provide a source for that. Having lived in Denver for several years, and having worked hailstorms mostly throughout the middle plains of the U.S., my first impression is to disagree with that. But I may be persuaded by statistics...
Please elaborate and list sources.
Thanx. |
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LarryW
USA
126 Posts |
Posted - 03/31/2004 : 17:03:34
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Todd: I have no statistics available, but I would imagine there are some somewhere. Perhaps this is some sort of urban legend, but I have heard it several times over the years. I know they do get a lot of hail there. Here is a link with information about colorado hail wherein they say the eastern slopes have the highest hail frequency.
ttp://www.ci.boulder.co.us/publicworks/depts/utilities/natural_hazards/hail.html |
Larry Wright |
Edited by - LarryW on 03/31/2004 20:06:51 |
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fivedaily
USA
258 Posts |
Posted - 04/01/2004 : 08:34:54
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I can't think of one time in the last 5 years that my employer has declared a hail cat in CO.
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sbeau4014
USA
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Posted - 04/01/2004 : 08:46:03
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| Own some acreage just to the north of Branson, Mo in the Ozarks. No house on it yet, but haven't had any time off for over a yr so I'm not missing much there. It will be an ideal spot to home base as it will be within a day of any storm in the midwest, plains, TX, OK, and the gulf states (wind, hail, tropical). Only areas not too close to is west coast (fires and quakes are not that common) and the east coast that pretty much only has hurricanes that I have any interest in working, and those you always have a few days notice anyway so you have time to "head toward the storm" before it hits. It has 4 seasons there, great views, and lakes out the yazoo for recreation. |
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Catmannn
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Posted - 04/01/2004 : 19:54:25
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Larry,
Don't know about anybody else, but I worked a Farmers Hail Cat in Colorado Springs in the spring of 2002. It would be my guess that Farmers does not have a lock on Colorado policies.
Looking back at the 54 Cats I worked Dallas/Ft. Worth wins my prize for the HAIL Capital of the world.
Have you got you toes into the Pacific Ocean Yet???
Honolulu, Hi gets my vote of the best place to work a small wind storm.
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LarryW
USA
126 Posts |
Posted - 04/01/2004 : 22:08:14
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Dave, I have worked there once myself spring 92. Here is a link which states in part: "The development of a long-term, 100-year hail-day database, deemed adequate by the insurance industry for defining trends and fluctuations.
The nation's areas of greatest hail frequency are along and just east of the central Rocky Mountains where point averages vary between 6 to 12 hail days per year."
the link: http://www.bbsr.edu/rpi/meetpart/nov00/changnon/
No, I lost my surfboard. I agree with the small windstorm statement. |
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alanporco
USA
112 Posts |
Posted - 04/02/2004 : 00:32:10
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| Interesting how this thread has wandered away from the original post about the best place to live to where is the frequency of hail the highest. I worked a hail storm in Denver. The joke at the local branch was that no one brought a new roof in Denver, they just wait for the next hail storm. So maybe Denver is the place to live. |
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