"Hilton" wrote in message news:O5b7f.1103
Right now (1pm West Coast time) on cnn.com, there is a picture of
numerous overturned planes. Presumably insurance pays for this and
since I pay for insurance, should I feel a bit bummed that these owners
didn't fly their planes to safety and help lower my insurance costs?

That assumes the aircraft were airworthy, the weather was flyable as
equipped, the pilots were current, that they didn't have higher some
more-substantial priority, and that they didn't in fact try to move them
someplace safe.

After Hurricane Andrew, for example, I volunteered for a day at an FBO at
Baton Rouge to which planes from New Orleans had been evacuated. The storm
missed NOLA and hit Baton Rouge and the flight line looked like airplane
wrecking yard.

-c