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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]Evolve Dammit
(16,725 posts)110. I used to love FL and sought out the most remote, unspoiled places. It is way too overbuilt for
me at this point, and the politics are insane. But yeah, if you can't respect the ways of the natural world, don't complain when something bites you. Literally of figuratively.
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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