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Originally Posted by catzmeow
JC: You are so right. The only way that developers can build in hurricane zones and sell the homes is to get them federally insured through the federal flood insurance program. We should consider either doing away with that program entirely for new development, or requiring homeowners to bring their dwellings up to a hurricane-resistant standard in order to acquire this insurance. I have no sympathy for people who live in a hurricane zone and aren't prepared. I've spent ten years here now, and you'd have to be functionally retarded not to understand the possible ramifications.
It's so bogus...
xoxox,
Catz
(florida girl)
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I remembered way back when Florida got hit by hurricanes couple of times in a year. All we can hear is to REBUILD the city, the town with government aids. Then again they build the same kind of wood framed houses, which cannot protect people from hurricane disaster again and again. Money are wasted, people are killed, structure are damaged, houses are destroyed ... hurricane after hurricane. Our lumber industry is so powerful; they can actually lobby our state and federal government not to set up a strong building code to protect people from hurricane disasters.
How many American people will actually study the prevention of hurricane from other countries and learn the lesson. We trust our government to protect us, our government has not yet come up a strong building code to help people understand that there is a way to protect your life and property when Hurricane hits.
Our media is not reporting, Our government is not responding, Housing industry won't volunteer to tell, Lumber industry wants you to live comfortable in a wooden framed house... Somebody in our government need to take a look and realize that we need to do something to prevent natural disasters, we can't just pray to the Lord every time when we see a storm approaching us on the map.