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Insurance is failing hurricane survivors: ‘People thought they were covered’
(www.theguardian.com)
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Whoa whoa whoa, building codes? That's just costly red tape! How will builders see ever increasing profit margins with all this government bureaucracy?! Remove the building codes entirely, let the Free Market^TM^ do an invisible handshake with Jesus, and the rest will take care of itself /s
New houses are required to be built to code for hurricane force wind here, the "post-Andrew" building code is good. Most of us don't have new houses though, my house is from the 1940s, and the one I moved from is 100 years old this year.
We do have building code, what we don't have is anyone willing to say no to developers. Sprawl, less land to absorb water. I see houses being built on seasonal wetlands, they fill them and raise 'em then the rest of the neighborhood floods in the rainy season. Nobody should be able to do that.
Restricting freedoms too?! You must be one uhv them commi an-tee-fah immigrants takin' up all our jobs and unemployment benefits! Stay away from our cats! ... unless they belong to childless women, then it's fair game! /S