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In reply to the discussion: This will get lost in the GD thread. I just have a hard time and need to rant over this Ian bullshit [View all]Butterflylady
(3,542 posts)23. I do believe the poster was talking about those that build the homes.
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This will get lost in the GD thread. I just have a hard time and need to rant over this Ian bullshit [View all]
Cheezoholic
Sep 2022
OP
Mr. Fields, there's a difference between my state's negative weather and yours
jmowreader
Sep 2022
#21
Richardhead Leadership isn't responsibile in whole or part for the temperatures, really,
soldierant
Sep 2022
#137
Kinda like building a house too close to Amazon river if you know it will flood yearly and be gone.
TigressDem
Sep 2022
#10
Maybe not greedy, but perhaps selfish. They want to build on a sand spit then we
catbyte
Sep 2022
#44
shifting sands. You can't fix stupid with money though. They should not even allow construction.
Evolve Dammit
Sep 2022
#111
Home builders greed. Some of those islands are completely covered with houses.
fightforfreedom
Sep 2022
#93
I've always been a weather/earth sciences nerd, which is ironic because I live in one of
catbyte
Sep 2022
#77
I'm not complaining -- I love it here. I grew up in Charlevoix and it was a little piece of heaven.
catbyte
Sep 2022
#104
Understand your point, but there are enough disasters of all sorts throughout the nation. Was a
allegorical oracle
Sep 2022
#53
Real estate developers have dominated Florida legislatures since the 1920s. In the 1960s, they
allegorical oracle
Sep 2022
#61
I know. Yes he said the whole thing was surreal and the stuff of nightmares.
Irish_Dem
Sep 2022
#130
Yes but my point is that also the Fiji people take sensible precautions to prevent deaths.
Irish_Dem
Sep 2022
#80
I lived in Orlando during college. Learned enough to know it won't be year round for me.
TigressDem
Sep 2022
#13
Excellent. I haven't lost power and Internet or cable during any hurricane.
jimfields33
Sep 2022
#55
back in 2009 we were looking at warm weather places to move to from wisconsin
moonshinegnomie
Sep 2022
#25
I have mixed feelings about people who choose to live in hurricane prone areas.
Lonestarblue
Sep 2022
#32
You are right but the ebb and flow of understanding this will be slow in coming.
Tadpole Raisin
Sep 2022
#33
Couldn't agree more. Grew up a few miles south of Indian Rocks -- a family friend had a tiny log
allegorical oracle
Sep 2022
#41
I was born and raised in FL, all my family is here and I don't want to leave them.
lark
Sep 2022
#79
You're right, of course. But those Michiganders and NJites coming to live on the coast are, by
Scrivener7
Sep 2022
#83
I used to love FL and sought out the most remote, unspoiled places. It is way too overbuilt for
Evolve Dammit
Sep 2022
#110
Since most people don't have common sense, it may need to get a bit more draconian.
roamer65
Sep 2022
#131
The answer would make right wing heads explode, but long ago there needed to be federal zoning
LT Barclay
Sep 2022
#146
The Federal Flood Insurance program should pay off ONE total claim. No more.
oldsoftie
Oct 2022
#154
I've seen examples where folks have used those low interest loans to go from shacks near the water
LT Barclay
Oct 2022
#162
I'll take hurricanes over tornados any day, lots of time to get ready & evacuate if you need to.
EX500rider
Sep 2022
#149
I just watched Beach Front Bargan Hunt. A couple was looking at Condos in Treasure
applegrove
Oct 2022
#151
even before Ian, i always wondered WHY people moved to Florida!!! I went there in December
samnsara
Oct 2022
#157