{"id":3891,"date":"2011-08-26T12:04:35","date_gmt":"2011-08-26T20:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.TripInsuranceStore.com\/blog\/?p=3891"},"modified":"2024-06-30T23:42:36","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T05:42:36","slug":"do-callers-think-we-were-born-yesterday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/do-callers-think-we-were-born-yesterday\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Callers Think We Were Born Yesterday?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"right\"><a title=\"Subscribe to my Wall Street Journal Recommended Blog\" href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/wCXYr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Subscribe<\/a><\/div>\n<p>I received this call yesterday August 25, 2011:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Caller: I need travel insurance that will help me if there&#8217;s bad weather. Especially if the place we&#8217;re going is damaged.<br \/>\nSteve: Where are you going?<br \/>\nCaller: The Outer Banks of North Carolina.<br \/>\nSteve: When are you going?<br \/>\nCaller: I&#8217;m driving there on August 30th for a three week trip.<br \/>\nSteve: Is anything forecasted?<br \/>\nCaller: Not as far as I know.<br \/>\nSteve: I&#8217;m looking NOAA&#8217;s website and nothing will cover you due to Hurricane Irene.<br \/>\nCaller: It&#8217;s not forecasted to hit North Carolina, but I really want coverage in case the Outer Banks are affected.<br \/>\nSteve: I&#8217;m sorry, but none of our plans will cover you.<br \/>\nCaller: I called ______.com and they said I could buy a policy.<br \/>\nSteve: You can always buy a policy, but it doesn&#8217;t mean your claim will be paid.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Look at what I found on the National Hurricane Center&#8217;s website:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IreneTrack\" src=\"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/graphics\/IreneTrack082511.gif\" width=\"455\" height=\"400\" border=\"0\" align=\"center\" title=\"Hurricane Irene's Track on 8-25-2011\"><\/p>\n<p>I also discovered that there&#8217;s something called &#8220;Tropical Depression TEN&#8221; that could be an issue. I advised him to not waste his money on travel insurance since nothing forecast is covered.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s not the answer he wanted. He reasoned with me for 20 minutes, but the answer was still the same. He eventually said he was taking his business to ______.com because they are happy to take his money. However, as I say on <a title=\"What's the bad weather coverage?\" href=\"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/travel-insurance-bad-weather-and-natural-disaster-coverage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TripInsuranceStore.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>This is important<\/strong> &#8211; While anyone will sell you travel insurance at the last minute, claims under bad weather coverage from known events are not covered. If you&#8217;re traveling soon and bad weather is forecast or known, you will not be covered for bad weather if you&#8217;re getting your travel insurance today. That&#8217;s because the bad weather isn&#8217;t an unforeseen event.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Take a look at this link to see more about Bad Weather coverage: <a title=\"What's the bad weather coverage?\" href=\"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/travel-insurance-bad-weather-and-natural-disaster-coverage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/travel-insurance-bad-weather-and-natural-disaster-coverage\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Subscribe I received this call yesterday August 25, 2011: Caller: I need travel insurance that will help me if there&#8217;s bad weather. Especially if the place we&#8217;re going is damaged. Steve: Where are you going? Caller: The Outer Banks of North Carolina. Steve: When are you going? Caller: I&#8217;m driving there on August 30th for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vent-spleen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}