[Kool_ZX3]

NOS2Go4Me,Jul 10 2005, 03:08 PM Wrote:Y'know, places like that, Jamaica, Cuba, the RD (Dominican)... they're gorgeous. Coastlines are great, beautiful palm trees, etc etc.

However, when you're making yourself live through storm after storm... either build a better house, or move.

More money is wasted on rebuilding these places than I can really count, and we wonder why insurance premiums on all fronts are going up steadily.

I'm not saying we shouldn't help them, I'm just saying you don't build a house in the middle of a lava flow field, or in the Antarctic just because "the view's spectacular, and there's noone around for miles".

A hurricane is just another destructive force of nature. Why keep rebuilding in the path of something you know is going to eradicate you next year?
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I heard all houses as of 1992 in florida have to be built out of cemenet (foudation and walls)and reinforced with rebar