03-29-2019, 02:12 AM
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13 hours ago, Thunder-Bay-Syd said:
It is madness and they do it here too. There are specific areas of agricultural land which are listed as flood plains because... well obviously they have a history of flooding. Yet some special folk decided it would be fine to build there and catastrophic flooding seems to feature more and more prominently in the news year on year.
If only there were some obvious sign that could have helped people avoid this [img]<fileStore.core_Emoticons>/emoticons/rolleyes.gif[/img]/emoticons/[email protected] 2x" title="9_9" width="20" />
In a few words ..."developers without scruples." I've seen housing developments go up in floodplains. This may have something to do with why flood insurance is not a standard feature of a homeowners' insurance policy, but has to be bought as a rider--at a very high premium. I also know the locations of at least two (very expensive) properties in floodplains; one of them is on stilts and the other can only be accessed via its own private suspension footbridge which crosses a river. Maybe they do all right, but I wouldn't want their mosquito problems.
Back to the topic ... rather than storing resources, find a way to become a producer of resources.
Me? I have one MRE in a back room, and a few cans of Sterno--and I'm thinking of wax-coating this box of strike-anywhere matches I snagged at the hardware store, just because I thought no one was making them anymore.
If it all falls down, color me gone.
