Hurricane season has arrived....
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You keep betting against climate change Trad. The people with money in the game disagree.
Human caused warming is making flooding events more severe.
As in, a Cat1 Hurricane ballooning to a Cat4 in 12 hrs.
Great Floods are etched in the earliest writings from the dawn of human civilization.
Which has nothing to do with the fact that human driven warming is worsening the problems.
Imma save this one for the immigration debates:
"People have been migrating between North and South America for the past 20,000 years!"
This keeps some people from evacuating the next time, when it’s worse, and they get killed. Don’t let it guide your decision next time
Unfortunately, you are correct. The vast majority of policyholders in Florida are not aware of this. Citizens was set up by the state to be the insurer of last result, for those living in high risk areas that could not get insurance from a private insurer. It is now the largest insurer in Florida and it's rates are generally lower than what the private insurers are charging. When the big one hits a major population area, a lot of non-citizens policyholders are going to be pissed, including me.
FWIW, most of the Friday night high school football games have been postponed in the Indianapolis metro area. High winds are the primary cause.
Just heartbreaking and sickening to see how many people whose lives are devastated by losing their homes and possessions; all the folks who live far away from 'hurricane landfall areas', hundreds of miles inland.
FEMA:
The uber-rich folks do not want to pay higher taxes to fund this; it is literally what their playbook states, and what key GOP members of Congress have been saying for years. They always squawk when it's not "their" state being helped (or when it's "Blue" areas). Those folks are awfully quiet this week...
WTF are "localities and states" going to do when these kinds of disasters hit? Are folks who vote for these idiots realizing what's going to happen if that next disaster hits them, and FEMA has been gutted?
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The “Uber rich” typically have no mortgages on these enormous properties and they also tend to self-insure so any damage is a cost they’re willing to risk and absorb. The property taxes on these estates are already in the six figures, even in “low tax” Florida.
I’m not defending them in any way but “thems the facts” as they say.
I’m not defending them in any way but “thems the facts” as they say.
