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Boomer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-05-04 05:12 PM
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Can the Florida coast remain habitable?
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Assuming that the hurricane season Florida is experiencing this year is typical of the climate extremes of global warming, how much longer can anyone afford to live along the Florida coastline?

Insurance losses are going to be tremendous, and it won't take more than another season like this one before it will become difficult, if not impossible, to insure houses on the coastline. And why mobile home construction is even legal in coastal areas beats the heck out of me. Not only are mobile homes prone to destruction, they also generate air-borne debris that creates even further destruction on more stable buildings.

Re-building communities every thirty or forty years is evidently considered feasible in that area, but rebuilding every five years is going to be economically ruinous.

Given the Bush family record for corruption and cooperation with big bidness, I don't expect that Jeb will encourage the logical responses: strict building codes that mandate costly hurricane-resistant building construction and restrictions on overdevelopment in low-lying coastal land.

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