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07-29-2006, 08:20 PM
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Originally Posted by f8nacn
They had confidence that they would be safe there...it turns out it was quite the contrary....yet that is known looking back, not when faced with difficult decisions. How many of us would willing leave our homes, our tradition, our heritage? Most of us would wait or even attempt to ride it out because we don't want to leave that which we value.
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No....sorry, but if the national weather service comes on TV three to four days prior to a hurricane of astronomical proportions slamming into my home on the Gulf Coast.....I am moving my family out of there without question. Don't be an idiot. I think most of us would sacrifice a home and traditions so as to not be killed. I can take my insurance and build a new home.
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07-29-2006, 08:28 PM
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Originally Posted by macallan25
No....sorry, but if the national weather service comes on TV three to four days prior to a hurricane of astronomical proportions slamming into my home on the Gulf Coast.....I am moving my family out of there without question. Don't be an idiot. I think most of us would sacrifice a home and traditions so as to not be killed. I can take my insurance and build a new home.
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And how many of them actually had insurance...let alone flood insurance? And to quote you - don't be an idiot!
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07-29-2006, 08:32 PM
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If you don't have insurance, that sucks. Its nobody's fault but yours. However, staying in town will have no effect on whether your house gets destroyed or not.
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07-29-2006, 08:35 PM
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People don't have health insurance, people don't have life insurance, people don't have flood insurance...all for one reason or another! Yet why are we being judgmental or hard on people when we don't know their personal circumstances!
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07-29-2006, 08:39 PM
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Because we think its ridiculous to hear about how the government failed them.
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07-29-2006, 09:23 PM
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Originally Posted by shinerbock
Because we think its ridiculous to hear about how the government failed them.
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And for some they have...that is their reality...
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07-29-2006, 09:26 PM
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How have they failed them?
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07-29-2006, 10:15 PM
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Originally Posted by f8nacn
And how many of them actually had insurance...let alone flood insurance? And to quote you - don't be an idiot!
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I'm not being an idiot. You claimed that "most of us wouldn't leave our homes or heritage".....and I refuted your claim. I don't know how many did, nor is it my concern. Frankly, I wouldn't live on the gulf coast, let alone somewhere below sea level on the gulf coast if I didn't have the means to have something as basic as flood insurance.
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07-29-2006, 10:29 PM
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Originally Posted by macallan25
I'm not being an idiot. You claimed that "most of us wouldn't leave our homes or heritage".....and I refuted your claim. I don't know how many did, nor is it my concern. Frankly, I wouldn't live on the gulf coast, let alone somewhere below sea level on the gulf coast if I didn't have the means to have something as basic as flood insurance.
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That's definitely your choice! But how many people have the choice to move from a place that they were born (without the financial means)?
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