Hey all you DUers who think Florida residents deserve what happened because they chose to live here.

[Warpy]

76. I don't blame people who live in harm's way

I blame the fucking developers who saw only profit when they crammed as many houses as possible on top of drained swamps and wrecked ecosystems and without adequate escape routes. I blame developers who are still building hguge suburban tract housing developments up in Sinkhole Alley, not mentioning the risk to buyers. I blame the businessmen who put out the cheery "Y'all come on down where it's WARM" brochures that neglected to mention any of the risks, especially within a mile of the coast where storm surges are the most dangerous and most especially on barrier islands that should never have been developed all to hell with only one causeway for thousands of people to use to evacuate to the mainland.

I don't blame the people who bought into the idea of perpetual summer, no more snow. I've been through winters in NY, New England and the upper midwest and I eventually wanted to escape, also. However, developers have pretty much ruined that state for the foreseeable future. It was never meant to be paved over with asphalt streets and parking lots and miles and miles of houses in the suburban sprawl pattern. Florida has a habit of fighting back and a lot of those people will get hurt.

They don't deserve it. The real fault lies with the developers and their marketers.