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Originally Posted by iamnotafraid
It's weird. My anxiety over those storms is so bad that I don't even like to say their names. I hate feeling that way about it.
Sorry to derail this thread.
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No problem. I know precisely what you went through. I don't say the name of the storm that got us, either. It was very serious, though... I had to swim out of my house and across my yard holding my dog above my head. I had to go buy dry clothes (while wearing soaking mud covered ones) that day because all mine were ruined. We had flood insurance and were fully insured (despite having to pay a total of 2 grand for all our deductibles), but we didn't know we needed to have a rider policy so our temporary housing would be paid for while our home was reconstructed. So we lived in the upstairs spare bedroom in our house with no HVAC for 6 months while our place was reconstructed. It was hell on Earth. FEMA told us for the past 2 years they'd buy our property, but ended up refusing to each year. We eventually had to just move and rent the place out... our anxiety was so terrible every time it rained.We tried not to let the whole experience poison us, but unfortunately, stuff like this just affects us all in the strangest ways.