[geeks] People R Dum.

[Amy]

On Sat, 6 Jul 2002, David Cantrell wrote:
> Yup.  No sympathy here either for the dumb shits who CHOOSE to live below
> the levees on either side of their tidal river which can rise by several
> feet when there's heavy rain.

A lovely and poignant quote (from ABCnews.com's latest heart-rendering
piece on the travesty these folks are going through):

"Standing under an umbrella, Dan Ackerman pointed to the spot where a
house built on stilts had stood about an hour earlier. Now there was nothing
but the river.

'It's just gone,' Ackerman said. 'It got washed away in 1998 and they
rebuilt it. But it's gone again.'"

***

Well, Duh...

In '98 that area received about half the rain than the other week. And
these people just don't move..it's really unbelievable at times how
ignorant they're being--it's like they think the rain'll stop...or maybe
they're just cryin' wolf cause in the majority of cases, their insurance
will build them a brand spanky new house.

> What they have now is "Lewes Flood Action", a group of whiners who seem to
> spend all their time demanding that insurers insure the uninsurable and
> demanding that central and local government spend vast sums of money on
> flood defences of dubious value to protect their poorly sited homes.

Here, if you pay enough of a premium, you can get insurance. And when
things like this happen every few years, instead of saying "try moving",
the insurance companies and the Govt. start coughing up the dough and
letting these idiots rebuild.

Your town's way is far better. It makes people learn to not build where
you shouldn't. :)

--a