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(ABC News)   Floridians vow to be Floridians. Mother Nature is giddy while insurance executives are nervous   (abcnews.go.com) divider line
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3655 clicks; posted to Main » on 09 Oct 2022 at 9:35 PM (23 weeks ago)   |   Favorite    |   share:  Share on Twitter share via Email Share on Facebook



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koder [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2022-10-09 9:10:35 PM  
Insurance execs aren't nervous if the government always helps guarantee the policies.
 
pastramithemosterotic
2022-10-09 9:41:23 PM  
Y'all keep paying a ton of money to vacation and have second homes down here, so why wouldn't people rebuild? The tourist market demands beachside bars with fruity cocktails and bad Jimmy Buffett impersonators
 
rzrwiresunrise
2022-10-09 9:42:44 PM  
My favorite part is how these are the same ppl who will complain about govt waste
 
Bennie Crabtree
2022-10-09 9:43:02 PM  
What horrible people. The children they raise are going to be incredibly farked up. It's like they not only want to fail at everything in life (by flooding it), they also want to establish their whole identity based on disastoursly (not hyperbole but actual natural disasters) bad choices. That's going to be imprinted on the next generation like a big boot with cleats.
 
olorin604
2022-10-09 9:43:35 PM  
Hey evil wasteful socialist government, you are obligated to spend a billion rebuilding this seawall so I can rebuild my house without it being washed away by the tides.
 
Churchy LaFemme [OhFark]
2022-10-09 9:44:28 PM  
Federal government insurance subsidies for one disaster per homeowner. After that you're on your own. Quit bailing out shiatty decisions.
 
Bennie Crabtree
2022-10-09 9:44:53 PM  

pastramithemosterotic: Y'all keep paying a ton of money to vacation and have second homes down here, so why wouldn't people rebuild? The tourist market demands beachside bars with fruity cocktails and bad Jimmy Buffett impersonators


You cna probaby get away with it for a while, by ruthlessly taxing vacation properties and AirBNBs. For a few years, you might even make vacation properties uninsurable and idiots from Canada would still pay to rebuild them.
 
waxbeans [TotalFark]
2022-10-09 9:45:49 PM  
To be fair it's not like we will make coastal cities into wild life refugees
 
Raoul Eaton [TotalFark]
2022-10-09 9:46:57 PM  
"....entire neighborhoods reduced to rubble after menacing storm surge and Category 4 hurricane force winds ripped through southwest Florida on Oct. 28."

So there's going to be another one?  How do they know?
 
Dustin_00 [TotalFark]
2022-10-09 9:47:06 PM  
I just looked at Google Maps and random street views of Mexico City, FL that was hiat 4 years ago by Hurricane Michael.

People say they're gonna build back but it looks like they see the new insurance requirements and then rebuild their lives somewhere else.
 
DaAlien
2022-10-09 9:49:05 PM  

pastramithemosterotic: Y'all keep paying a ton of money to vacation and have second homes down here, so why wouldn't people rebuild? The tourist market demands beachside bars with fruity cocktails and bad Jimmy Buffett impersonators


Is there any other kind?
 
Dodo David [TotalFark]
2022-10-09 9:49:33 PM  

pastramithemosterotic: Y'all keep paying a ton of money to vacation and have second homes down here, so why wouldn't people rebuild? The tourist market demands beachside bars with fruity cocktails and bad Jimmy Buffett impersonators


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ctighe2353
2022-10-09 9:52:06 PM  

pastramithemosterotic: Y'all keep paying a ton of money to vacation and have second homes down here, so why wouldn't people rebuild? The tourist market demands beachside bars with fruity cocktails and bad Jimmy Buffett impersonators


It's really cheap for most people to vacation in Florida since most of the country can drive there.  I drive there from NY and you can get an apartment like rental at the liki tiki for about 140 a night which has a kitchen, laundry and you can get 6 people in it.  Great pools, nice bar, minutes from Disney and the beach.
You can do a cheap Florida vacation and have just and much fun and relaxation as if you spent more.
 
Dodo David [TotalFark]
2022-10-09 9:52:10 PM  

waxbeans: To be fair it's not like we will make coastal cities into wild life refugees


The wild life returns to Miami Beach every Spring Break.
 
Conservative Evangelical Millennial Cyclist
2022-10-09 9:52:43 PM  

Dodo David: pastramithemosterotic: Y'all keep paying a ton of money to vacation and have second homes down here, so why wouldn't people rebuild? The tourist market demands beachside bars with fruity cocktails and bad Jimmy Buffett impersonators

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waxbeans [TotalFark]
2022-10-09 9:53:07 PM  

Dodo David: waxbeans: To be fair it's not like we will make coastal cities into wild life refugees

The wild life returns to Miami Beach every Spring Break.


🙄 buy ppl out and they will fark off.
 
cyberspacedout
2022-10-09 9:57:22 PM  
Uh, yeah. Remember, this is the same country that rebuilt stuff in New Orleans after hurricane Katrina.
 
Conservative Evangelical Millennial Cyclist
2022-10-09 9:58:36 PM  

cyberspacedout: Uh, yeah. Remember, this is the same country that rebuilt stuff in New Orleans after hurricane Katrina.


Thanks, Obama.
 
Call the Guy
2022-10-09 10:08:07 PM  
It'd be real boot-strappy of Florida to self-insure against hurricanes

Tell you what, Florida, the rest of the country will take any migrants you round up, and you can pick up the check on this and future hurricanes

Damn, I'm a deal maker, just like Trump and Elon. Perfect deals...
 
shinji3i
2022-10-09 10:08:42 PM  
Dear Floridians,

I live in an area that gets frequent hail but I don't want to move, could you guys cover my damaged roof please?

v/r

Guy you've been leeching from for a while
 
RepoManTSM
2022-10-09 10:15:17 PM  
I keep saying all the Great Lakes states and provinces need to secede and hoard all the fresh water, but also to stop bailing out Florida.
 
FarkingChas
2022-10-09 10:18:25 PM  
Meh. There is no place to build in Florida that is immune to hurricanes. Best thing to do is to require sturdier buildings. But the conservatives will not do that.
 
Disappearing Hitchhiker
2022-10-09 10:18:54 PM  

waxbeans: To be fair it's not like we will make coastal cities into wild life refugees


As they should be
 
shinji3i
2022-10-09 10:19:06 PM  

Dodo David: pastramithemosterotic: Y'all keep paying a ton of money to vacation and have second homes down here, so why wouldn't people rebuild? The tourist market demands beachside bars with fruity cocktails and bad Jimmy Buffett impersonators

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Dodo David [TotalFark]
2022-10-09 10:23:41 PM  
As I see it, the problem with rebuilding in Florida isn't the risk of hurricanes, but rather, it is the elevation.

From WLRN 91.3 FM in Miami, Florida, 18 May 2021:

"In the 30-year lifespan of a typical mortgage, some parts of South Florida could start to see floodwaters regularly soak their streets, yards or even their homes. Local governments are planning on more than a foot of sea level rise by 2050, and Miami alone could see high-tide flooding about 150 times a year by then, according to a NOAA analysis. A report from consulting firm McKinsey found concern about sea rise could send Florida real estate prices tumbling as much as 15% this decade, years before floodwaters even touch doorsteps."
 
skinink [OhFark]
2022-10-09 10:27:36 PM  
Ship all those people to Martha's Vineyard.
 
hissatsu [TotalFark]
2022-10-09 10:27:37 PM  
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beth_lida
2022-10-09 10:42:53 PM  
I guess they're hoping for more socialism.
 
4seasons85! [TotalFark]
2022-10-09 11:06:47 PM  
I eat the desire to rebuild, especially after you've been devastated. It's kind of like a coping mechanism or some form of hope. But at some point you need to look at reality.  That can be very difficult.  Unfortunately they will be hit again. It's only a matter of when.
 
OptimisticCynicism [BareFark] [OhFark]
2022-10-09 11:12:28 PM  

4seasons85!: I eat the desire to rebuild, especially after you've been devastated. It's kind of like a coping mechanism or some form of hope. But at some point you need to look at reality.  That can be very difficult.  Unfortunately they will be hit again. It's only a matter of when.


That and people will keep developing high risk areas(coastal and wildfire zone) without caring about the inevitability.
 
dkulprit [TotalFark]
2022-10-09 11:12:49 PM  

koder: Insurance execs aren't nervous if the government always helps guarantee the policies.


Not so much.  Certain areas yeah, but multiple insurance companies have gone bankrupt in Florida recently with many more on the brink.

They just need to make insurance premiums so expensive that people are dissuaded to rebuild in certain areas or if people are willing to pay them it doesn't cause them to go bankrupt.

I don't care if insurance companies go broke, but it appears only they have the power to stop people from building in areas they shouldn't.
 
waxbeans [TotalFark]
2022-10-09 11:49:24 PM  

4seasons85!: I eat the desire to rebuild, especially after you've been devastated. It's kind of like a coping mechanism or some form of hope. But at some point you need to look at reality.  That can be very difficult.  Unfortunately they will be hit again. It's only a matter of when.


Pay people to leave and they will. 🤷‍♂
 
patcarew [BareFark]
2022-10-09 11:56:58 PM  

4seasons85!: I eat the desire to rebuild, [...]


Om nom nom
 
jmr61
2022-10-09 11:59:12 PM  
Everyone who has ever had their homes destroyed by floods says the same thing.

And most all of them do so.

And they have or will get their homes destroyed again by floods.

All rocks are moving downhill in the face of gravity.  Some are just moving more slowly than others.
 
Bungles
2022-10-10 12:02:01 AM  
A few decades and the argument will be moot anyway, as much as Floridians do their King Canute impression. Or as it's spelt in Old English, King Cnut.

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fullyautomatic [OhFark]
2022-10-10 12:21:04 AM  
On one hand, I'd be all for stigginit to any insurance company profits, but the sad truth is, the insurance behemoth isn't about to let their profit margins take a hit.

The only ones getting stiggin are all the Jane and Joe Does half a country away with ever-increasing bills so Bubballoo "The Gator" Hickney can rebuild his trailer shanty and paper thin walled crab shack for the 10th time in an obvious environmental doom zone.
 
Tom Marvolo Bombadil
2022-10-10 1:34:21 AM  

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I hear there are some huge tracks of land to be seen along the beaches in FL.
 
4seasons85! [TotalFark]
2022-10-10 1:41:34 AM  

patcarew: 4seasons85!: I eat the desire to rebuild, [...]

Om nom nom


Haha!! Whoops! In all fairness I was hungry when I typed it!
 
Dodo David [TotalFark]
2022-10-10 3:31:50 AM  

waxbeans: Pay people to leave and they will. 🤷‍♂


That might work for retirees, but what about people who still have to work for a living?
Do you expect them to move elsewhere without guaranteed jobs waiting for them?
 
Space Station Wagon
2022-10-10 5:38:43 AM  

waxbeans: To be fair it's not like we will make coastal cities into wild life refugees


WE won't make coastal cities into wild life refugees. However mother nature is going to start turning them into barrier reefs.
 
NephilimNexus
2022-10-10 6:12:07 AM  
Floridians whose homes and businesses were destroyed during Hurricane Ian are adamant about rebuilding the communities that were destroyed

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NathanAllen
2022-10-10 7:49:38 AM  
Rebuild all you want, on your own dime.
 
anticontent
2022-10-10 8:00:31 AM  

Dodo David: pastramithemosterotic: Y'all keep paying a ton of money to vacation and have second homes down here, so why wouldn't people rebuild? The tourist market demands beachside bars with fruity cocktails and bad Jimmy Buffett impersonators

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The fark kinda boomer comment style is this
 
HotWingConspiracy
2022-10-10 8:07:27 AM  
No red state bailouts.
 
Erma Gerdd
2022-10-10 8:08:19 AM  
"... Category 4 hurricane force winds ripped through southwest Florida on Oct. 28."

So we have 18 days to prepare?

/future Florida man predicts
//proofing is dead
 
Lamberts Ho Man
2022-10-10 8:51:20 AM  

koder: Insurance execs aren't nervous if the government always helps guarantee the policies.


Or lets them set the rates in accordance to the risk.
 
waxbeans [TotalFark]
2022-10-10 9:50:48 AM  

Dodo David: waxbeans: Pay people to leave and they will. 🤷‍♂

That might work for retirees, but what about people who still have to work for a living?
Do you expect them to move elsewhere without guaranteed jobs waiting for them?


The payment should have an amount of equal to 4 months salary of their current job. That way they have 4 months to get a new job. Gezz you want people out or not?
 
Smelly Pirate Hooker
2022-10-10 12:57:26 PM  
Insurance execs aren't nervous. They just won't write up policies in more of Floriduh. No problem for them.
 
Smelly Pirate Hooker
2022-10-10 1:00:11 PM  
Also: Some of these people (not all of them) voted for this.

"Free enterprise." Little to no govt. regulation. Making people pay for their own stuff instead of expecting a government handout.

They literally voted for what they're going through now. It's kinda difficult to feel very sorry for them.
 
ansius
2022-10-10 1:06:00 PM  
Floridians: Get slammed by increasingly violent climate events.

Also Floridians: Vote for politicians who vow to enact policies that will stickit to those pesky greenies and who have constructed political personas based around how much they reject climate science.
 
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