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by bearjaws 266 days ago
What about the vast swaths of people not in flood zones with hurricane proof homes.

Been through 11 storms with only power loss and 3 pieces of siding coming off my home here in central Florida. Helps that many communities are 10-40ft above the water table.

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People like to beat up on Florida just like they like to beat up on Texas because their identity is tied to a political party. I was born in Port Orange and lived through a couple hurricanes there, ow I live in Dallas and have had some close calls with tornados. Weather is def. a thing and it can get real bad but people lose perspective because of the whole red/blue thing.
No, I beat up on Florida and Texas because we’re expected to spend hundreds of billions to keep these places habitable every few years when large swaths of the state are torn to shreds and in exchange they vote for people who want to literally kill me.
Government spending on social services it out of control until my flood zone house built with every corner cut collapses.
>hurricane proof homes.

No such creature.