Florence Forecast To Become A Major Hurricane; Risk To The East Coast Is Rising

[Hortensis]

42. Exactly.

We're not as used as you to hurricanes either, though. Coming from California, our first real, personal experience, from a safe distance, was Irma, which we expected to permanently and completely destroy both land and mobile home of the one sitting low on salt water and eventually the other of our properties, which we'd lightheartedly purchased inland 2 hours away so they probably wouldn't both be taken out in one storm. She mostly went over both, suckING most of the water out of neighboring Tampa Bay for one and dumping its billions of tons elsewhere. An astonishing miracle that won't be repeated.

It's still likely the first will fall to rising seas first or developers, though. There's no effort to build sea walls in that town, and we just got warning that a developer is clandestinely trying to buy up enough units to take over our park. Nothing new except the clandestine.

Unless we attack the severe inequality of wealth the way our predecessors did, this is the end of the era when view and waterfront properties were available to citizens of ordinary means. But not the end of ordinary citizens being taxed to protect these properties.