Yeah, several weeks ago we had an unexpected flash storm, all was calm and then we had sustained 60-100mph winds for a few hours. Knocked out electricity for us

Yeah, several weeks ago we had an unexpected flash storm, all was calm and then we had sustained 60-100mph winds for a few hours. Knocked out electricity for us and a million others for a couple days. A ton of my neighbors had trees that had fallen on their cars or roofs. Whole trees in the road. Spent the next day helping my older neighbors pick up the damage because the city won't send anyone out to do it. As bad as it was, I can think of a dozen or more worse storms I've been in, with power outages lasting for weeks or months or flash floods submerging everyone's homes. Many of my friends were a part of the Cajun Army everyone heard about in the 2016 flood. Roofing companies make a lot of money where I'm from. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Louisiana_floods https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Louisiana_floods > Because numerous homeowners who were affected were without flood insurance, the federal government provided disaster aid through the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).[3] The flood was called the worst US natural disaster since Hurricane Sandy in 2012. But this is the most sinister part. Most flood zones are correlated with impoverished people due to reasons you can guess, and insurance companies refuse to insure these homes against the only real threat in the area, thanks to lax state regulations; instead, the federal government is forced to make up the slack. The quality of recovery between the poor and well-off in these extreme weather events is vastly different.