I helped for years trying to maximize state and city building code enhancements and enforcement. Now it is demonstrated that little works against nature’s fury.
One wonders why our employers are asking so much more from employees to even have health insurance for families, then ask why every year rich people’s houses are torn down by a storm and we all have to pay for it.
That’s what insurance is about. And the rich not only have insurance, they have re-insurance, which is basically insurance on their insurance.
Folks build by the water always, but no-one sells flood insurance but the federal government. If your house is taken under, chances are we all, all the taxpayers, will pay to have your seaside home rebuilt.
What happens to the other folks, you never ask, as your mansions are rebuilt in a disaster zone. Is it because you don’t care that a walk-up in Queens has no water or power? There’s no food, power or water or a way to flush the toilet. You have a whole-house generator. There may have been a ten-minute glitch in your life.
That’s how we get through hurricanes in the south. Be prepared weeks or months or years beforehand. Know that FEMA and Red Cross will not help at all. OWS seems to be on game in NYC because they know how to live in parks for a year so have exactly the stuff hurricane survivors need.
If you see my old commentaries from Hurricane Ike, I believe OWS survivors should be at least paid to consult with federal agencies, if not given contracts and be paid to do this stuff much better than bureaucrats can. Then give it over. They’ll become bureaucrats, too, and it’ll change again as it needs to do to protect us.
Things change. I used to be emotional about it but thanks to dear friends, I’m now pragmatic. Dee
ps OK I’m also somewhat emotional.
Cooking with Dee 