OK, I’m gonna break my rules and get emotional. I own property in Florida, in the 3rd most likely to get hit by a hurricane county in the country. It’s 10 miles inland but only 10 feet above current sea level, and it’s a 28 year old mobile home only rated for 100 MPH winds. I inherited it, and the developers never disclosed that it was likely to get by a major hurricane every 17 years on average. Big oil has yet to disclose to us that their product would cause global warming which causes more and more intense storms. Mom and dad trusted the oil companies and the developers and probably put over a hundred thousand dollars into their Florida retirement home, and a global warming fed hurricane will ultimately turn it into scrap wood and mold…
We were lied to, cheated, swindled, robbed, etc. and there’s no point in denying it.
My cynical side says that an honest politician will never be re-elected, never mind elected in the first place. But while the hurricane survivors deserve all the help we can give them, they deserve honesty too…
We have to rebuild safely way from the flood plains to withstand the strongest winds and then some. We have to stop dumping carbon into our atmosphere, creating a greenhouse that will ultimately be too hot for us to survive. Period.
Sassy Democrat 