26 August 2005

unprepared

You'd think that Florida, being hit by hurricanes on a fairly regular basis, would be prepared for hurricanes to hit. Not living there, I don't know why they're not. It seems to me that some things would be so obvious as to be required of all buildings, but aren't (although these look better). build firehouses, armories, and schools like giant bunkers, with a few extra floors on top so there are survivable shelters above floodwaters. I'm not from Florida though, so I may be missing something. Maybe there's something in suntan lotion that makes prior planning a bad thing.

Goe, just wondering.

3 comments:

Goemagog said...

hello.

Goe, waving from up north and over yonder.

Jim said...

While there will be a need for the industrial base and ports to recover, The big Eazy might be the big gone.

There is precident for the effects of something like this.

Rach - wondering if the disaster scenerio sci-fi movies were right about how fast humanity degenerates after all.

Goemagog said...

galveston was wiped out during a hurricane a century ago. the city fathers decided to hurricane proof their city. it's withstood everything since then. everything in new orleans and baton rouge has been hit over and over and they've done absolutely nothing whatsoever to prepare for it to happen again. it happened again and now we're all getting stuck with the fucking bill. we should just nuke the area and save everybody a lot of bother.

Goe, pissed off about it