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-Re: Our wishes for your safety in the U.K. ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2000 11:01:07 -0800
Subject: Re: Our wishes for your safety in the U.K.
I was struck by a couple of points Pewit made in his posting about flooding
in England.
1) ...we build in what were flood plains of rivers -
and then wonder why the water floods the area. In fact the government had
recently designated one of the badly flooded areas for housing development,
such is the pressure for homes in the South East of England.
2) ...if these poor people were under-insured before it means they are going
to be un-insurable in the future.
Pewit is speaking here of England, but the same problem exists elsewhere in
the world. The coastal plains of Bangladesh are periodically flooded and
swept away by devastating monsoons, but the press of overpopulation demands
rebuilding in the same area. Harder to understand is the rebuilding of
luxurious homes in such enclaves of wealth as certain areas of Southern
California, repeatedly ravaged by wildfires, and along the coast of the
Carolinas on the eastern seaboard of the U.S.A., wiped out time and again by
hurricanes.
Pewit's second point, dealing with insurance, covers the financial part of
an answer, but not the mind-set of people who can perfectly well afford to
relocate, but don't. Why? Because they can easily afford the hike in
insurance rates after each widespread disaster.
The quintessential example of this class of thinking may be a
Hungarian-born, once glamorous film star, the much-married Zsa Zsa Gabor.
Several years ago when I lived in Southern California, the lady's home near
Los Angeles burnt to the ground in a fire that consumed dozens of
luxury-class homes. She and most of the others rebuilt on the same spot,
which was struck again by wildfires several years later, and today features
multi-million-dollar mansions which will probably bite the dust again.
Go figure!
Of course, In Zsa Zsa's case, it is perhaps a different matter. All she has
to do is marry again. She once spoke of herself as "an excellent
housekeeper...I have kept the house of every man I ever divorced!"
Subject: Holidays hard when you lose your mate
Hi,
Thanks,
Subject: Re: Holidays hard when you lose your mate
Hi Joe,
Hugs,
Subject: Re: Holidays hard when you lose your mate
Joe:
John
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