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Sunday, August 27, 2006
Give up on Florida
This morning, mother nature decided to tell the naysayers to go f*** themselves, as the first hurricane of the season formed and started barreling towards Florida.
In other news, homeowner's insurance premiums all throughout the country are almost certainly going to go up to cover the boneheaded stupidity of people who keep moving into the giant bulls-eye we call the Gulf Coast. And in still other news, my Republican-voting family, who bitch all the time about intrusive government and high taxes, are applying for federal grants to fix up a family member's house in the Keys that was totalled by Wilma last year. Of course, by 'fix up', I mean that we're all paying to have them install granite countertops, solid-wood cabinetry, and quite nice tile backsplashes. All this in a house not much bigger than a postage stamp that's gonna get totalled yet again when the next hurricane blows through. |
3 Comments:
I'lll never understand the attraction of Florida. A significant chunk of my family is there and more keep on moving in. I think they're nuts. Not to mention, it will only be about 20-40 years before that place ends up under water if we don't get rid of these damn Republicans.
3:37 PM, August 27, 2006
It's pretty, I'll give you that. But there seems to be (among my family, at least) a collective group-think that goes something along the lines of "well, anywhere you live, there's going to be natural disasters. Just look at the tornadoes in the midwest, or earthquakes out west".
It's completely and utterly delusional, since a major earthquake strikes once a decade, if that, and tornadoes have a pretty limited swath. Hurricane season, on the other hand, seems like a game of craps where a 50-mile or more path gets cut through. And if you don't get hit this week, the one next week just might get you. And if this year doesn't do you in, just wait until next year.
Then add that to totally incompetent disaster planning, where the only route in or out of town (in Key West, for example) is a single 100-mile long road that island hops across two dozen bridges.
But it's pretty, and you feel like you're in a Jimmy Buffett song when you're down there. Fucking Jimmy Buffett
10:08 AM, August 28, 2006
Pretty? You mean all that asphalt and strip clubs as far as the eye can see? Maybe when you're looking outwards Florida is pretty, but I just can't get past the general clutter of sprawl, asphalt and ugliness of the mainland.
3:47 PM, August 28, 2006
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