The wife is gonna nag and want changes/improvements to your house anyway, so why not let hurricanes and your insurance company help you out with it?
I love living in Florida and plan to move back there as soon as is humanly possible. Hurricanes be damned. I won't be building any houses right on the coast, or owning one, any time soon though. Pure insanity.
Best reason so far, still not convincing enough. Add to that the heat and stiffling humidity and the pastel houses and it's a safe bet I won't ever reside in Florida for a long period of time. But to each his own. I just don't like my own to be blown away on a yearly basis.
Not socialistic at all... just common sense. Ultimately, the taxpayer pays for all this madness, in either higher rates for private insurance or bailouts via Disaster Area federal declarations... thus, innocents far removed from such disasters tend to pay for them, year after year. What would be the harm in some common sense declarations: -Only new construction of cement or cinder block buildings along coast? -No new construction of any kind in America's flood plains? Again...no socialistic intent; common sense!
Yes - regulations proposed and implemented from thousands of miles away by a centralized government. Nope - nothing like socialism at all. And btw, don't like it? Tired of stupid floridians getting payouts from insurance companies, including some of your dollars? Then don't buy homeowner insurance and subsidize these people. Put your money where your mouth is.
I don't think that's a fair argument at all. Homeowners insurance is completely stupid not to have, practically a neccessity like electricity or water. It's not something you don't buy as a form of protest, it could ruin your life to not have it. Maybe someone could start an insurance company that will not sell to people (or sell at a much higher price?) in certain high risk areas at all, thus keeping the rates low and stable for people like, say.. ME, who live in a practically disaster-free (knocks on wood) area.
It's highly preferable to the "Suck your blood dry and give you malaria mosquito season that we have at our lake cabin in Northern Minnesota. Edit: Despite that season, property values are still skyrocketing, don't ask me why.
I don't think he was really serious but in any case, for most people it's moot because their lender requires it.
I'm not totally serious...but if someone is so worked up about hurricanes and insurance payouts...you don't have to be a part of the system. You can rent, w/o insurance You can move to Montana, buy a cheap plot of land, and build your own house or buy a trailer and not really have to deal with banks. Oh, there's lots of reasons why those may not be good choices, but there's always an out. But if these choices are too inconvenient for you - you take what comes with it. Which is being a part of the insurance industry. or you can whine and complain and try to write a new self-serving law/regulation. Besides, even if his cockamamie ideas were implemented....would anyone's insurance actually go down...or would we all just be paying for another Lexus and McMansion for an insurance executive who is handed a better profit margin?
OK, so to summarize, no one should live in: mudslide areas, river floodplains, near coasts susceptible to hurricanes, areas where tornadoes might hit, where there could be grassfires or wildfires. I suppose Chicago's out of the question as well since they are also susceptible to that 200 year fire every so often. OK, so no one can live in the parts of the country that I've greyed out then. So now we have to figure out how to fit 200 million people into a concrete bomb shelter in Minot, North Dakota.
Are you kidding, look at all those trees, we'd surely burn to death in a season or two: Minot is much safer:
ITN, I served with Tom Paine. I knew Tom Paine. Tom Paine was a friend of mine. ITN, you are no Tom Paine
DJPoopedhisPants and Tom Paine sitting in a tree, making love...perverts! How about Washington? You make love with him? Good Lord!
I always ran into problems trying to understand what Paine was thinking when in the first section, Of the Origin and Design of Government in General. With Concise Remarks on the English Constitution, when Paine states: Is Paine saying that a perfect society would be one without government, because it's citizens would do as they should? So actually while advocating limited government and representation, he was actually saying that a communal utopia would be ideal. This leads me to believe Paine was a communist, then I really start to get confused.
If you were to add colors (say red and blue), what color do you think most of the states that aren't greyed out be?
And its completely wrong too. Jeb Bush is governor of Florida. If he becomes president, well, DC residents better board up their windows. http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/research/roth/vaclimohur.htm Hmm...the last surge in hurricane activity was in the 1950s...
Like this retarded journalist attacked by a falling tree? http://www.dembloggers.com/story/2005/7/10/20537/3688 (Geraldo meets tree)
Jeb Bush is doing a pretty good job in Florida. I won't be surprised if he runs for President one of these days.