I built it all the same! Just to show em!

It sank into the swamp...

So, I built a second one! That sank into the swamp...

So I built a third one! That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp!

But the fourth one stayed up!

Same mentality...

Or more to the point. If you have the money to build a beachfront house, why are you not building it to be virtually indestructible? Like one of those indestructible monolithic dome homes.

We can build concrete structures that will laugh at hurricanes. We can build them with their living areas raised well above the ground so water can simply flow underneath and around them. Sure, it's more expensive to build this way, but it can be done. And really, I would argue that if you can't afford to build such a home, you simply cannot afford to live right on the beach.

I was just driving around the beaches of Pinellas County (Tampa Bay area) today. Entire neighborhoods are destroyed. Beach front condos, restaurants and stores, also destroyed. In many areas, anything ground level got flooded/wrecked by storm surge. I saw several boats in places there are not supposed to be boats.

If Tampa Bay takes a direct hit right now it's going to be really fuckin bad for a lot of people.

What's also scary is that right now everyone has been piling up debris, ruined appliances and all manor of belongings outside for disposal. Piles ten feet high along every street. All this shit is about to be flying around in hurricane force winds and storm surge. Is a recipe for disaster.

They also had sunk all their savings into that rebuild. How do you think about trying a third time when you have nothing to even work with?

I don’t know if this is the case for that couple, but a lot of insurance requires that you rebuild on the same location. We need to change laws so that this isn’t the case anymore. It is a massive problem.

literal sunk cost fallacy

It was a pleasant surprise to hear the Meterologist on the video in that article specifically explain warming oceans from carbon are causing the increased frequency/intensity.

This happened in 2005 as well, except with 3 hurricanes; Francis, Ivan, and Jeanne. I doubt climate change has gotten better since then.

My moving date was literally scheduled for this upcoming Friday… I pick up the u-haul on Tuesday, and my lease in Colorado starts on Tuesday of next week. This thing is trying to keep me here in hell.

I'm on the team running the weather machine this time. We are very excited for this run!

After gathering so much data from the last several storms, we finally have the power to call hurricanes and tornadoes exactly where we want them to go!

We'll be feasting on the fetuses Boden personally hands us after this run, fellas!

Run! Be safe but Run!

Im from Florida and it's so frustrating that we are always just 1 or 2 percent away from voting out these morons but we all have to suffer because the old people vote their shriveled asses off.

You presume that that information reaches them and that they're willing to consider it.