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[OpEd] A few words on natural disasters

Now with all these natural disasters some are complaining about what they can do when things are not going the way they wish.

Now it's with flooding on their own properties. I wouldn't go into the reasons, yet the reasons are obvious even when they don't wish to put the blame where it truly belongs.

The reasons they are complaining though is because they refuse to have insurance. Too expensive they claim.

What they don't as well consider is that as well is their own fault!

You buy a home in a expensive area. Fix it up with expensive landscaping. Put in expensive items in their homes, then complain that they can't afford the insurance.

That reason is complete insanity! You want to have something nice, yet don't wish to consider the area in which you buy.

I simply cannot have any sympathy for that total idiocy.

There's a reason why you don't buy properties where natural disasters are prone. Why I looked at the places that I even rented.

If I couldn't get out, I simply didn't live there. If a property was in a frequent hurricanes, tornadoes, or hightide areas, again I simply wouldn't live there.

You have no reason for which to complain, if you should live in those frequently known problems.

This is not even a lack of compasion reason. For you basically asked for the problem to occur.

End of rant! 🙃
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KiwiBird · 36-40, F
Insurance costs can be extremely high in flood prone river areas in Australia. The current flooding in the lower Murray is at near record levels the highest in 70 odd years. A typical home may cost $1,500 to $2,000 pa to insure (Building Only) In a flood plain that cost will be closer to $50,000 pa
So consequently many cannot afford Insurance. You pays your money or take a chance.

You wouldn't get flooded out every twenty years. If you invested say half that 50k in blue ribbon shares you would be well in front. Self Insurance would be the way to go.
DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
@KiwiBird It might not be a problem if the same darn problem didn't happened every cotton picking year.

Yet every year they do complain. 🤷🏻‍♂️

They expect the state or county to fix a problem that they themselves don't want to touch.
KiwiBird · 36-40, F
@DeWayfarer We gave up picking cotton. The State is certainly picking up a fair bit of the tab.
DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
@KiwiBird well with cotton it's one natural resource that we don't have to import. It was found growing here when Columbus discovered the Americas.

The state refuses to do anything about the same insurance companies that those same wealthy have forced apond everyone else.

It's the wealthy that have stock in the companies that they themselves refuse to buy.