Next message: Ken James: "Re: lv-ab: your risk, not mine"
On Tue, 4 Oct 2005 11:34:54 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:
>> There is NO
>> place that anyone can live that doesn't have
>> hazards. You chose the
>> hazards that you are comfortable with or more
>> comfortable with.
>
>Yes, it is true -- life is invariably fatal.
>
>However, there are those who are willing to take more
>risks than others, and for that I applaud them, but I
>do not wish to subsidize them.
>
>> Their
>> desire to live on the coast is greater than their
>> fear of storms. And
>> the fact that they live there means that you and
>> others can vacation
>> there or visit in your boat.
>
>And that somehow makes me responsible for supporting
>them when their house gets washed away???
>
>NOT!
>
>> >There's plenty of room in other parts of the
>> country
>> >that don't have these problems.
>>
>> No there aren't. EVERY place that people can live
>> has some kind of
>> problem. There's no free lunch.
>
>Sorry Grandma, but I've never even come close to
>having my house wash away, or get buried in a mud
>slide, or fall down in an earthquake, or get
>devastated by a tornado.
>
If you live in Massachusetts, you have ice storms and blizzards
instead. And tornados are everywhere. You don't have to live in the
midwest to have tornado damage.
>Typically there are a few places that suffer the worst
>of natural phenomenon most of the time. It may be
>true that no place is absolutely safe, but it is also
>true that some places are almost sure to have
>problems.
>
>Just consult any flood map, and then see what you have
>to pay for flood insurance. In Massachusetts, and I'm
>sure anywhere else on the coast, you can find out from
>the insurance companies exactly what level of risk
>your house is in by its location.
>
>A friend just bought a house in a flood zone
>designated with some alphabet letter and called a high
>velocity zone. These things mean a lot to the local
>building regulations, to insurance companies, and to
>the cost of your flood insurance. And they mean a lot
>to your liklihood of losing your house during a major
>storm surge.
>
>All you have to do is choose a house a few feet higher
>up the street, and you are no longer at risk. But
>people pay double and triple for the privilege of
>living right on the water, and also double and triple
>their chances of being washed away in a storm.
>
>That's fine for them to make that choice. And it's
>fine for me not to have to help pay their damages when
>they get washed away.
>
>And these aren't poor people either. Obviously.
>
>And it simply isn't true that there aren't safer
>places to live than the riskiest locations.
>
>I have no idea why you would think otherwise.
>
I think otherwise because I've lived all over the country, from Boston
to Key West to California. I know there are hazards everywhere.
grandma Rosalie
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