i feel badly for them as well...everyone lost everything...
That's just the thing. Nature does its thing. Always. Man can control it to a point, but it's a delicate thing (forestry comes to mind). The earth is an organism (oh gawd, please don't think I'm a tree hugger...but). It changes, and always will. We can only control it so far. We can't control the weather. The insurance companies are seeing the writing on the wall, and they're bailing. They've been pulling out of Florida for years, or making it bloody near impossible to afford what little insurance is available.
Not entirely. I've been saying for 15-20 years auto manufacturers stop doing business with and in Calf. Do not make auto's to their standards. Once the start walking everywhere, with no food to eat, they will sing a different tune right quick like.
Is that the same as living where hurricanes frequently happen ?
Yes, it is. When you choose to vote for nearsighted simpletons who think they are smarter than God (or nature, if you prefer) who make decisions which increase the inherent danger of naturally occurring phenomena, you are contributing to the problem.
I live in Florida. Yes, we are subject to Hurricanes. That is part of living in Florida. That is not the issue at hand. The issue is that, yes, while we have chosen to live here and accept this consequence of living in Florida, we have not elected officials who are exacerbating the effects and damage from these storms. California and Californians have. From pizz poor forest and water management, not building the reservoirs to hold water, rerouting the water to the ocean for "environmental" reasons and to save some stupid minnow, to cutting the Firefighter budget by over $17 million and favoring DEI over adequate staffing of firefighters, they have done this to themselves out of their own ignorance and virtue signaling. They do things in California that they want to make the Standard throughout the entire nation. Every single regulation, ban, emission standard, environmental standard, medical standard, mental standard, etc. that they do in California, they want to enforce as the law of the land in every single state in the union. Well, we now see the consequences of their ideology. The damage, loss of life, loss of property, loss of wildlife, loss of forestry, is a direct result of the leftist/marxist. DEI, virtue signaling policies that they voted for. Their chickens have come home to roost, and they expect to be bailed out of the consequences of their own actions. While I do have sympathy for those who did not vote for or contribute to this, they chose to stay for whatever reason. Life is about choices.
You're missing the point. I did not choose to vote for the the simpletoned vision-impaired idiots you say i chose to vote for.
Leave California. I did.
I was just making a point using someone else's logic. Not mine. I was just drawing parallels. Good weather, beautiful country, crazy people, etc.
That's just it. We WERE in the process of leaving California
The Red States should prohibit any CA licensed vehicle from entering their states.
Hope you get better real soon.
My point was that people have to make choices based on their priorities, things happen in life which drives those decisions. Those are things beyond our control, versus those things which are. We would like to leave the part of Florida we are in, but choose not to due to family, her mother is not doing well.. That is a choice due to a priority. Just like you, and many others. That was part of what I was trying to convey. Not everyone is making those decisions blindly.
Sorry to hear it my friend. We're all pulling for you man.
Thanks for the well wishes.
They didn't stop them for emissions check, they stopped them for a safety inspection. Still a stupid thing to do.
Got it. You didn't vote for the misguided lot that runs the state.
Sounds like it's a matter of the limits of perception, the breadth of perspective, interpreted through the degrees of values, And that's OK.