88% of Gulf residents have not reinforced their homes (hurricane season)

[SoCalDem]

Mason-Dixon poll..


Well gee whiz.. why the hell not.. I mean people cannot find enough ways to spend all that extra money they wade through every day.. It must be knee-deep in the dining room, alone..

:sarcasm:

[pitohui]

1. i don't understand this story

if by reinforce, they mean put hurricane clips on the roof, everyone who has already replaced their roof has done that as a matter of course and legal requirement, at least in louisiana/mississipi gulf coast area

if by reinforce, they mean board up the windows w. storm shutters, you don't do that until a storm is actually announced and on its way -- i get the impression this is what they mean because of the reference to people putting masking tape on windows to strengthen them, an old technique from the 70s that doesn't work but is also NOT done until the storm is actually underway

the code requirements in florida are already so high that a great many people are forced into living in trailers, that can't be secured, meaning their only alternative is evacuation in advance of a storm -- yet it is more difficult to evacuate florida because of the high population


many homes have not yet even been rebuilt or replaced in louisiana/mississippi, in those cases nothing exists to reinforce

it just sounds like "fake fact" to me, doesn't make any sense off the cuff

i read it yesterday and i'm pretty much still scratching my head...it seems eerily like they are trying to blame the victim in advance, because there WILL be storms

[SoCalDem]

3. That's exactly what they are doing.. So when the houses blow away

they'll drag out this "report" and say.. "Well 88% of the people "ignored" advice".:puke:

[madrchsod]

2. worse- they can no longer afford insurance

and if they wish to sell and move they can`t because the buyers won`t be able to purchase insurance or afford it if they could..
new orleans is the conservatives wet dream..kill the federal governments roll in rebuilding and dumping the problem on the "states rights" and last but not least sending democratic voters to the wind.