... Destroy my house FIVE times, I am a dumbass.
... Destroy my house FIVE times, I am a dumbass.
doesn't anyone down there build houses out of materials that will survive the local weather conditions?
I couldn't get past the first page without losing IQ points. Damn E36 M3ty writing.
Woman: "That's the 15th time a storm has destroyed my house..."
Interviewer: "What are you going to do?"
Woman: "Well we're gonna rebuild..."
0 federal dollars should go to rebuilding houses BELOW typical storm surge heights. I'm sorry people living below sea level 2 miles from the ocen your welcome to rebuild your house yourself but if you want any FEMA dollars your going to have to move.
I'm 100% behind federal funds helping to rebuilding Hurricane flooded areas.. . In north Texas.
Lesley wrote: I couldn't get past the first page without losing IQ points. Damn E36 M3ty writing.
You didn't lose points because of the writing. You lost them because of whom they were writing about. The writing was OK if the "journalist" and her "editors" want to portray morons as victims or as learning-opportunities.
Ms. Martinez isn't the "unluckiest woman" in America but she qualifies for many other "awards".
Didn't read the article, but it's pretty common for wealthy people. Get killer insurance, get a new house and a pile of cash every few years.
In reply to poopshovel:
Yea that's a pretty common practice in the Carolinas and beaches in Florida, you know the built on stilts over the ocean ones. From my understanding it's also the federal government that insures those houses because public firms won't touch them. (insert snark about free market and fraud/waste/abuse)
Yep, guarantee you she's covered by the federal flood insurance program. That means that her insurance to rebuild is subsidized by our tax dollars.
Wonder what a house weighs... could you make a hollow bouant concrete "foundation" and then chain the thing to some sort of anchor...
In reply to imirk:
And to think.. around here, the state LOST a court case that a homeowner brought up after the beach replenishment programs blocked part of his view of the water by building sand dunes...
I hope he enjoys the ocean when it rushes in his front door.
The0retical wrote: In reply to poopshovel: Yea that's a pretty common practice in the Carolinas and beaches in Florida, you know the built on stilts over the ocean ones. From my understanding it's also the federal government that insures those houses because public firms won't touch them. (insert snark about free market and fraud/waste/abuse)
Yeah. Forgot that part.
How about taking those areas that are repeatedly hit and turn them into parks. DON'T LET PEOPLE MOVE BACK IN!
Oh wait, that would mean over half of La. would be parkland. But it'd be real purty!!
SC has coastal zones that relate to flooding, in some zones even the fed insurance can't be bought. A state rep was caught trying to get an exemption for a sand bar so some jerk who bought it for nearly nothing could carve it up and drop McMansions on it, all federally subsidized of course. Yeah, it's only taxpayer money.
Then there's the woman who bought a house on Folly Beach and sued the city because she wasn't allowed to build a wall to fix the beach erosion. The really funny part of that: her lot used to be 3rd row back from the beach. Hurricane Hugo turned it into oceanfront. She builds a $800,000 house and is shocked, SHOCKED! to find the beach is washing away.
nocones wrote: 0 federal dollars should go to rebuilding houses BELOW typical storm surge heights. I'm sorry people living below sea level 2 miles from the ocen your welcome to rebuild your house yourself but if you want any FEMA dollars your going to have to move.
Thank you.
oldsaw wrote:Lesley wrote: I couldn't get past the first page without losing IQ points. Damn E36 M3ty writing.You didn't lose points because of the writing. You lost them because of whom they were writing about. The writing was OK if the "journalist" and her "editors" want to portray morons as victims or as learning-opportunities.
"This time, Martinez witnessed herself as Hurricane Isaac pummeled her Braithwaite, La. home while she and her family huddled in the attic."
Martinez lost four other homes in the last 50 years Hurricanes Betsy (1965), Juan (1985), George (1998), and Katrina (2005)."
Define "OK"
Woody wrote:nocones wrote: 0 federal dollars should go to rebuilding houses BELOW typical storm surge heights. I'm sorry people living below sea level 2 miles from the ocen your welcome to rebuild your house yourself but if you want any FEMA dollars your going to have to move.Thank you.
But wait! It's not NOLA's fault! They need to make the laws of physics illegal!
Lesley wrote:oldsaw wrote:"This time, Martinez witnessed herself as Hurricane Isaac pummeled her Braithwaite, La. home while she and her family huddled in the attic." Martinez lost four other homes in the last 50 years Hurricanes Betsy (1965), Juan (1985), George (1998), and Katrina (2005)." Define "OK"Lesley wrote: I couldn't get past the first page without losing IQ points. Damn E36 M3ty writing.You didn't lose points because of the writing. You lost them because of whom they were writing about. The writing was OK if the "journalist" and her "editors" want to portray morons as victims or as learning-opportunities.
I concede; you got me.
I read that first sentence with the word(s) that should have been written in the first place. The second sentence would have benefitted from proper punctuation.
What was most irksome was the lack of info that would show the "victim" as one who is truly unlucky, stubbornly stupid, or abusing the ineptitudes of government largesse.
Lesley wrote: I couldn't get past the first page without losing IQ points. Damn E36 M3ty writing.
That happens a lot on Yahoonews.
There is a reason that the company with the most home insurance policies doesn't insure homes in Florida.
mtn wrote: There is a reason that the company with the most home insurance policies doesn't insure homes in Florida.
i remember my homeowner's insurance (State Farm) almost doubling after a hurricane went thru the gulf coast in '02.. my house was in MN.. yeah, i know they aren't supposed to do that, but it's been my experience that insurance companies do pretty much whatever they want when it comes to finding excuses to raise insurance rates.
novaderrik wrote:mtn wrote: There is a reason that the company with the most home insurance policies doesn't insure homes in Florida.i remember my homeowner's insurance (State Farm) almost doubling after a hurricane went thru the gulf coast in '02.. my house was in MN.. yeah, i know they aren't supposed to do that, but it's been my experience that insurance companies do pretty much whatever they want when it comes to finding excuses to raise insurance rates.
That's because they were insuring houses in Florida back then. They took a bath on those homes, and had to jack the rates everywhere. They don't insure homes in Florida anymore.
Lesley wrote:oldsaw wrote:"This time, Martinez witnessed herself as Hurricane Isaac pummeled her Braithwaite, La. home while she and her family huddled in the attic." Martinez lost four other homes in the last 50 years Hurricanes Betsy (1965), Juan (1985), George (1998), and Katrina (2005)." Define "OK"Lesley wrote: I couldn't get past the first page without losing IQ points. Damn E36 M3ty writing.You didn't lose points because of the writing. You lost them because of whom they were writing about. The writing was OK if the "journalist" and her "editors" want to portray morons as victims or as learning-opportunities.
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