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Originally posted by spunky1
What is more baffling to me is why do people keep rebuilding there?..I would move to a safer location.I know it's beautiful ,but I couldn't go through this all the time
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They DON'T go through this all the time. I have family in FL and some have been there for 40+ years. On the ocean (both sides), ICW and rivers. None of them have had more than $1-2K in hurricane damage TOTAL all those years.
Like any natural disaster, you can't pick and choose who's going to be hit. My son is in Biloxi where they thought Ivan was going to come ashore. They were bunkered down for almost a full day, never even had much rain.
400+ miles away, I had 10 inches of rain in less than 6 hours, major flooding, entire homes were taken when the rivers overflowed and I didn't have power for 40 hours. Same storm.
You're going to have natural disasters EVERYWHERE.
That said, I think there needs to be regulations about where to build as far as the water is concerned. There are homes in the Outer Banks of NC that are taken into the ocean every time there's a N'oreaster
I also don't think the government needs to pay for private citizens to rebuild on the waterfront. But that's just me
