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    How many times will we rebuild?

    Climate change is wreaking havoc on many places. How many times, will we spend all of our money rebuilding year after year after year, until we deem, certain places no longer habitable? How much are we willing to pay on our insurance's? Our high premiums are paying to rebuild peoples homes, who knowingly live in places that are sure to be destroyed again next year, in many cases. At what point will we realize it is futile? Will we wait until the sea burries them?

    I know this is a controversial subject. But lets have at it.

    When we pay double and triple on our insurance, it is like a redistribution of our wealth. Our money is being transferred to the wealthy who wish to live in the path of natures furry, and we are paying for them to rebuild their homes, year after year.
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    Where is climate change weaking havoc? Be specific.
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    I would not even call it climate change.
    I would call it greedy builders being greedy.

    EXAMPLE:

    I was a kid in 1963 when Hurricane Carla devastated the Seabrook and Kemah areas, and ripped Galveston a new one.
    How many other hurricanes hit that very same area and tore the place up again and again each and every time?
    yet right after each one, you see people rebuilding.

    OK, enjoy for another ten or twelve years or so, but then you will be doing it all over again.

    You don't even have to believe in the bible to know to not build on a sandy foundation, yet they do it all the time.
    One apartment complex even filled in sections of a fault line and built on top of it.

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    Ah, c'mon, Chris... You know there were never hurricanes along the Eastern Seaboard until recently.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Retirednsmilin308 View Post
    I would not even call it climate change.
    I would call it greedy builders being greedy.

    EXAMPLE:

    I was a kid in 1963 when Hurricane Carla devastated the Seabrook and Kemah areas, and ripped Galveston a new one.
    How many other hurricanes hit that very same area and tore the place up again and again each and every time?
    yet right after each one, you see people rebuilding.

    OK, enjoy for another ten or twelve years or so, but then you will be doing it all over again.

    You don't even have to believe in the bible to know to not build on a sandy foundation, yet they do it all the time.
    One apartment complex even filled in sections of a fault line and built on top of it.

    It's like in Texas, in the Spring, the rivers flood. So why the hell do people build right along the rivers?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Chris View Post
    It's like in Texas, in the Spring, the rivers flood. So why the hell do people build right along the rivers?
    I have never understood this.
    Why do people build on bottom land in Liberty County when they know damb well the Trinity River will be flooding it each and every year.
    Even worse in a bad storm.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chris View Post
    It's like in Texas, in the Spring, the rivers flood. So why the hell do people build right along the rivers?


    I think the topper of toppers is that stone Japanese marker form the 1200's that says " Build nothing below this marker due to tsunamis".

    ...and then a tsunami came and wiped out everything below the marker.

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    Which place is rebuilt year after year? No place. The Bahamas were not destroyed last year.

    It's this kind of nonsense that makes one want to shove democrats off a cliff someplace.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chris View Post
    It's like in Texas, in the Spring, the rivers flood. So why the hell do people build right along the rivers?
    Natural disasters hit every single inch of this country. Floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, wildfires, avalanches and so on...

    What do you recommend we do? Go back to living in caves?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Agent Zero View Post
    Natural disasters hit every single inch of this country. Floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, wildfires, avalanches and so on...

    What do you recommend we do? Go back to living in caves?


    East Texas

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