Well see, there's a few problems with that. You need to own the house to have flood insurance for one thing. Once again, a little matter of resources.
Also, most of the damage to my stuff was caused by structure damage from heavy rain, not flood exactly, which is defined as water through the door. Most people who did have insurance did not receive a payout for this reason. This was especially true at the higher elevations where I was.There was a flood but it was a symptom of the storm that caused the actual damage. Then black mold finished off the job. Rather than explain all that each time, I just say that it was a flood. But you have shifted the argument from "fixing" people to did I personally learn anything from the experience. Um. I moved to Albuquerque, which is considerably higher and drier. But unless you want to say that living in Texas is an example of a poor personal decision -- I grant you that there might be an argument for that ;) -- you're still full of it. And again, why do you care? Why do you have to condemn someone else for their past problems? Deal with your own ;) Saying that you want to help the poor is a crock. You need to get clear on the concept before you can make any productive suggestions. I'm done here. On 6/27/07, Gruss Gott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dana wrote: > > My point being that not everyone who is currently having money > > problems needs "fixing" or education. > > > > So you're saying you learned nothing from your experience to prevent > it again? Huh. I thought only teenagers knew it all. > > My wife and I just made it through a flood 4 years ago that took 50% > of the houses in our neighborhood leaving the owners with nothing > because none of them have flood insurance. They still had to pay for > a ruined house and there was no FEMA money for any of them because it > wasn't a disaster zone. > > We got lucky, but we learned something: buy flood insurance. We also > learned that insurance agents won't sell it to you unless you live in > a flood plain so you have to threaten them to get it. Now we have it. > > So there's 2 ways to look at it: > > 1.) An act of God got me, it's not my fault, I could've done nothing > to prevent it, tax payers bail me out, or > > 2.) You damn well better get flood/earthquake/everything insurance no > matter where you live because it'll save your ass and then you don't > have to count on the charity of other to bail you out. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJQ Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:237443 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
