Here's the thing about stupid people and natural disasters.
When people lives in hurricane infested Kansas, it used to be they built a storm cellar underground. Now they live in mobile homes. When those get utterly destroyed and people die, we can't talk about it. Cause people died. And we have to throw a sadness party.
When people choose to live on the coasts and participate in a broken system of poor housing construction and low preparedness, we are supposed to pray and then blame God if people die. Heaven forbid we ask the question, why are there people living there in the first place, or at the very least, are there not any other building conditions we could enforce to help people live better?
No, no, people want to have a house on the beach that looks just like a house in downtown Savanah, and apparently it is their right as an american to do so.
Great. It's our right as an american to be a moron. To act like and idiot. You know what it's not our right to do? Expect everyone else's help and kindness as payment for our selfish and idiotic actions.
I can't understand why it is so taboo to talk about. No one is willing to think creatively about any of it. It seems like we think we can have normal sewer systems, normal roads, and normal homes in these areas that are struck year after year after year and not one person is willing to step forward and say, "We can't do this anymore." I am not talking about some desalinization method for sewage water, or building on stilts, I am talking about something completely revolutionary. A change in which people wont be able to just plunk down a house on a piece of property and get the insurance company to fix it when it is inevitably destroyed. Something that wont have counties shelling out millions every year to fix eroded beaches.
It might be that we can't live on some beaches. It might be that we can't go to some beaches. It might be that coastal regions become off limits save for natural preserves and daily tourism. No overnight structures. Maybe camping. We have so little respect for the way the coastal system works, and year after year Hurricanes come and try to teach us a hard lesson that we pay out in tax dollars and human life. When do we get tired of it?
The system is broken. As it is now we have cities and infrastructure locked into these coastal areas with no easy way to extricate them. And maybe that's not the right answer. But we should at least be able to discuss that living there, and building there, and being there is not the wisest life choice in light of the events that are there. People in California accept that earthquakes are going to be in the future and plan accordingly. They build accordingly. How is it that we sill have trailer parks mere miles from the NC coast? Hotels that are built with sub-standard materials, and building codes that allow all kinds of person homes to go up. If people aren't smart enough to do something proactive (which is arguably their right) then we at least shouldn't feel like we are required to pity them and bail them out when the inevitable doom comes to their doors. At the very least can we not build mobile homes in places like Atlantic Beach, NC?
When people lives in hurricane infested Kansas, it used to be they built a storm cellar underground. Now they live in mobile homes. When those get utterly destroyed and people die, we can't talk about it. Cause people died. And we have to throw a sadness party.
When people choose to live on the coasts and participate in a broken system of poor housing construction and low preparedness, we are supposed to pray and then blame God if people die. Heaven forbid we ask the question, why are there people living there in the first place, or at the very least, are there not any other building conditions we could enforce to help people live better?
No, no, people want to have a house on the beach that looks just like a house in downtown Savanah, and apparently it is their right as an american to do so.Great. It's our right as an american to be a moron. To act like and idiot. You know what it's not our right to do? Expect everyone else's help and kindness as payment for our selfish and idiotic actions.
I can't understand why it is so taboo to talk about. No one is willing to think creatively about any of it. It seems like we think we can have normal sewer systems, normal roads, and normal homes in these areas that are struck year after year after year and not one person is willing to step forward and say, "We can't do this anymore." I am not talking about some desalinization method for sewage water, or building on stilts, I am talking about something completely revolutionary. A change in which people wont be able to just plunk down a house on a piece of property and get the insurance company to fix it when it is inevitably destroyed. Something that wont have counties shelling out millions every year to fix eroded beaches.
It might be that we can't live on some beaches. It might be that we can't go to some beaches. It might be that coastal regions become off limits save for natural preserves and daily tourism. No overnight structures. Maybe camping. We have so little respect for the way the coastal system works, and year after year Hurricanes come and try to teach us a hard lesson that we pay out in tax dollars and human life. When do we get tired of it?
The system is broken. As it is now we have cities and infrastructure locked into these coastal areas with no easy way to extricate them. And maybe that's not the right answer. But we should at least be able to discuss that living there, and building there, and being there is not the wisest life choice in light of the events that are there. People in California accept that earthquakes are going to be in the future and plan accordingly. They build accordingly. How is it that we sill have trailer parks mere miles from the NC coast? Hotels that are built with sub-standard materials, and building codes that allow all kinds of person homes to go up. If people aren't smart enough to do something proactive (which is arguably their right) then we at least shouldn't feel like we are required to pity them and bail them out when the inevitable doom comes to their doors. At the very least can we not build mobile homes in places like Atlantic Beach, NC?