Weather events that are recurring in origin from the tropical regions of oceans such as Hurricanes are the best reasons to NEVER live in an area that is ALWAYS and continually affected by them.
Oh, it is cool to say I live near the ocean, next to the ocean or in a city next to an ocean or Gulf.
But let's face it. Hurricanes are nothing new. SEVERAL happen each year and always creates consternation with people tying to figure out where the next one is going to go. Then when it does hit the mainland, as if we expected it to just disappear into the sky or something, everyone is non-prepared, surprised their house is flooded or destroyed, and food and water are scarce commodities because there are millions of others just like you who should KNOW that if you live in a flood plain or anywhere close to a large warm body of ocean you are going to experience hurricane season....
The thinking, or lack thereof, amazes me.
WHY would ANYONE want to go through this continually throughout a lifetime????? DO they just LOVE devastation, risking life, enjoy hardship??
Oh, I know some will say that it is really neat to go to the beach. Great! I do to. On vacation and never when there is a tropical depression headed that way....
So I just cannot help but wonder if people simply do not think of these things when settling down and sinking roots somewhere or if there is any thought process at all?
I really just do not get it and have never understood this. A lot of hurricanes have come and gone in my lifetime and Ribit's and DGP's.
Yours too.
SO I suppose repetition does not make an impression on anyone.....
I feel for the victims of Hurricane Harvey and those who will be of Irma.
But in my mind, I keep asking WHY do they live there???
The entire GULF area is a disaster waiting to happen... You're only lucky if someone else's OX is gored and not your own...
These are just things I think about when these events take place.
I have helped financially with relief in Texas. I will again for Florida.
However, I must say that at some point in time I have more empathy for people who have suffered an earthquake and had devastation because those are totally unpredictable. And MANY who live on those Islands in the
Gulf and Caribbean are too poor to go anywhere else.
Anyway, just thinking out loud and wondering if anyone else wonders these same things???
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