This is something that needs to be said.

Matt-hurricanewatcher · #1 Postby **Matt-hurricanewatcher** » Tue May 17, 2005 10:41 pm

Over the last 50 years it has been very quite with very few hurricanes hitting the coast line. We have tooken it like a joke in built homes,Businesses/Buildings very close to the coast. History shows that hurricanes seasons like last year is about the norm. The benny rabbit is coming back out of the bag.

We have lived with hurricanes for thousands if not hundreds of thousands of years. We need to live with them. Maybe make stronger homes/Building codes. Or better yet move inland.

What I'm trying to say why cry about something that has been on this planet for hundreds of millions of years? Why not be smart in move or build stronger? Because I went to see more discussion in less crying this year about this hurricane season. In believe me I don't went to see anyone die or loss everything. But that is what happens when you build on the coast.

That is all rant over!!!

mobilebay · #2 Postby **mobilebay** » Tue May 17, 2005 10:43 pm

WOW!!! Where did that come from? :roll:

southerngale · #3 Postby **southerngale** » Tue May 17, 2005 10:43 pm

Where did this come from?

Matt-hurricanewatcher · #4 Postby **Matt-hurricanewatcher** » Tue May 17, 2005 10:46 pm

It is common sense!

mobilebay · #5 Postby **mobilebay** » Tue May 17, 2005 10:47 pm

That was almost like a pre-season pep rally!WOW!!! :eek:

kevin · #6 Postby **kevin** » Tue May 17, 2005 10:49 pm

Dude take a couple of deep breaths.

southerngale · #7 Postby **southerngale** » Tue May 17, 2005 10:49 pm

Oh, it's gonna be a loooooong season.

Website · #8 Postby **Brent** » Tue May 17, 2005 10:50 pm

It's Mid-May... you SERIOUSLY need to relax. FOUR months until the peak.

Matt-hurricanewatcher · #9 Postby **Matt-hurricanewatcher** » Tue May 17, 2005 10:52 pm

What in the world are you people talking about? I'm saying that we need to live with them. In play it smart.

#10 Postby **ericinmia** » Tue May 17, 2005 11:10 pm

I agree....

I see idiots on miami beach complaining about loosing their docks, and windows, and this and that.

You knew this was a hurricane area, you knew you were building on an island, it is your responsibility, your problem. I don't believe these people should be getting any money from FEMA.

Just my opinion.
-Eric

Matt-hurricanewatcher · #11 Postby **Matt-hurricanewatcher** » Tue May 17, 2005 11:18 pm

I agree ericinmia,

I think also we should make it a law that no building past 50 miles from the coast for the Gulf states in the Southeastern States. We should make it parks where people could go to the beach. But no building. We would save alot of money.

depotoo · #12 Postby **depotoo** » Tue May 17, 2005 11:20 pm

50 miles???? wow! i couldn't even have my home and the city of west palm beach wouldn't even exist!

Matt-hurricanewatcher · #13 Postby **Matt-hurricanewatcher** » Tue May 17, 2005 11:21 pm

Over the long term it would save more money then having citys on the coast.

#14 Postby **vbhoutex** » Tue May 17, 2005 11:28 pm

I do think that barrier islands should be kept as just that and no one should be allowed to build on them. Nature made them in the beginning for a reason-as barriers. Manmade structures for habitation on them cause erosion etc and of course higher insurance costs for all of us. And since we can't just wipe them all clean I think that everytime a building on one of them is destroyed or made uninhabitable, it should be torn down and not rebuilt.

I rembember when almost all of Pensacola Beach had 15-30 foot high dunes, before all of the buildup(except for the areas closest to the bridge)and Navarre bridge and beach didn't exist. I firmly believe if they had been left as they were that much of the destruction in Gulf Breeze from Ivan would have been at a minimum lessened substantially. This same thinking can be applies all along the GOM and Atlantic coasts.

recmod · #15 Postby **recmod** » Tue May 17, 2005 11:28 pm

Matt-hurricanewatcher wrote:I think also we should make it a law that no building past 50 miles from the coast for the Gulf states in the Southeastern States. We should make it parks where people could go to the beach. But no building. We would save alot of money.

Now isn't that an intelligent remark....with the Florida Peninsula averaging just over 100 miles in width along its full length, I guess we will just have to evacuate the entire state and move everyone to Georgia.

--Lou

depotoo · #16 Postby **depotoo** » Tue May 17, 2005 11:28 pm

do you realize how crowded the inner workings of florida would be? i just think 50 miles is a tad unreasonable there. think about it, ok?

Matt-hurricanewatcher · #17 Postby **Matt-hurricanewatcher** » Tue May 17, 2005 11:31 pm

I'm just saying if you don't went to see hurricanes damaging your house. Or distroying your cities. I think we should move away from the coast. Where they cause most of there damage. We have to play it smart. In it will cost us less Money in more lifes.

The President needs to enforce this for our safety.

depotoo · #18 Postby **depotoo** » Tue May 17, 2005 11:34 pm

waht you don't seem to realize though is the hurricanes if intense will damage all the way across the state. true it is worse at the coast but we are talking maybe 5 miles tops inland fromt the storm surge usually.

Matt-hurricanewatcher · #19 Postby **Matt-hurricanewatcher** » Tue May 17, 2005 11:35 pm

So 10 miles would be good enough?

depotoo · #20 Postby **depotoo** » Tue May 17, 2005 11:44 pm

a lot more reasonable that 50 miles matt! but then what wouldl happen with all the building that is already there??

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