The US is not ready for this upcomming hurricane season

Mike Watkins ^ | 05/07/06 | Mike Watkins

[eastforker]

Might be a typo, the V is right next to the b.LOL

[jammer]

Not ready for a spelling contest either.

[ARCADIA]

"Every Keys resident I spoke with said really 2 things. They estimate only 15% (at most) of the residents evacuated for Wilma, and there have been too man false alarms in the last few years."

I have been down here a few decades and I will say the same thing: evacuation is not an option. These storms are a reality for 6 months of every year, they impact the entire length of the state and then some, and warning are only issued 24 hours before the hit. You would be turning the entire state into a snowbird preserve.

The way out of this is to build adequate structures. Instead we have been adding hundreds of thousands of high-rise condos all along the beach front. Our electrical system still dangles from poles, ready to kite and fail with the first winds, leaving us without communications or supplies. We are setting ourselves up for a massive loss of life, and it will all be about the lax regulation and over exploitation of the local marketplace.

[processing please hold]

Back in the day, if a hurricane destroyed your home you were $h!t outta luck. It's the price you pay for living in a hurricane prone area. How however, it's suddenly the presidents headache if your home is destroyed. Bring back to good old days in this situation.

[eastforker]

We are setting ourselves up for a massive loss of life, and it will all be about the lax regulation and over exploitation of the local marketplace...........With the billions of people that inhabit this earth I find it hard to understand the uproar about the death of a few hundred people that were too stupid to get out of the path of a potentialy deathly situation.

[ARCADIA]

How however, it's suddenly the presidents headache if your home is destroyed. Bring back to good old days in this situation.

The feds have underwritten the insurance industry, the financing, and provided some of the key infrastructure (including highways and flood control). It is one thing to buy a hunting shack for a few bucks in some back woods swamp; but, that is not what is happening in one of the nation's fastest growing and most expensive markets. They created this beast, and now they are responsible for it.

[italianquaker]

part of the problem is that old people here in the keys will not leave there pets because thats all they have for family and monroe county doesnt allow pets in there shelter.
Plus to cover there a-s they were ordering mandatory evacs for a trop storm(holy overreaction batman)

[processing please hold]

They created this beast, and now they are responsible for it.

Then they need to get out of that business. They are rethinking FEMA.

Where does it say that Bush and the American taxpayers are responsible for paying for food, housing, clothing, utilities and anything else for lazy bums that would rather suck on the teet than get off their azzes and work. We tired of paying for their socialist attitudes..."I'm owed" mantra. They aren't owed anything. Louisiana is a welfare state, that's how the dims and liberals keep their voters in line.

[Ingtar]

I laugh at the thought of our president trying to get out "actuarially unsound" in a speech. But you are correct in that we have underwritten too many disasters that should have been privately covered over the years.

[verity]

All your points are worthy of repeating over and over again.

I strongly suspect that those who can influence building codes are in the pockets of the developers and builders.

[redfish53]

lol

[Dick Bachert]

I believe both Bush 41 and 43 suffer from some form of dyslexia. Both had problems assembling coherent sentences longer than about 15 words. 41 often spoke in jerky 2 to 5 word phrases, "Not prudent" being one of my and Dana Carvey's favorites.

And will SOMEONE please hang a poster in the Oval office declaring "It's 'nuCLEAR' not 'nuculer' and 'strategy' not 'stragery'."

The Bush family -- on the Walker side -- tout their connection to George III with whom we had that unpleasantness in 1776. This could explain many contemporaneous events. May be all that British royal in-breeding.

Where DO we get these people?

[Old Professer]

Vulnerable fits the context.

[Sender]

Comparison of surface water temperatures in the gulf between last year (Katrina) and this year:

Looks like a banner year for plywood, batteries and bottled water.