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From: Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Pearls Before Swine: Uncle At The Door
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2025 08:44:42 -0800
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On Sat, 11 Jan 2025 11:32:54 -0800, Dimensional Traveler
<dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:

>On 1/11/2025 8:54 AM, Paul S Person wrote:
>> On Fri, 10 Jan 2025 14:48:19 -0800, Bobbie Sellers
>> <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> wrote:

<<snippo more stuff>>

>>> 	So Southern California should be abandoned by all but the
>>> entertainment industry and the retirees should move to Florida.:^(
>>=20
>> Florida is out -- retirees are fleeing because of the high condo fees,
>> or some such nonsense.
>>=20
>> Well, according to /some/ online sources, anyway.
>
>High insurance costs for all the beachfront buildings that are starting=20
>to subside because of rising sea levels and the resulting knock-on=20
>effects from that like insurance companies refusing to add new policies=20
>or renew existing ones because doing so would endanger their profits.

It's either that or raise rate ... nationwide. Gotta get the money to
cover the claims from /somewhere/, and adding it to the National Debt
is not available. So far.

As other posts discussed, California is in a similar situation due to
wildfires. Which ultimately may mean "poorly-managed infrastructure,
specifically electricity distribution". Or not, as the case may be.

Up here in Washington, a few years back State Farm announced a program
where, if a forest fire threatened, they would send a contractor out
to encase the house in anti-fire foam (or something like that). And
then to remove it when the danger was past.

This would, presumably, apply mostly to houses in the more rural (but
still formed into developments/towns) areas, where the forest (and so
the forest fire) was only a few streets away. Or so I thought until LA
caught fire. There are a lot of trees in Seattle ... not as many as
there used to be, because of developers who apparently never saw a
tree they didn't want to remove, but a lot and even more in the
suburbs. We are, after all, in the rain shadow of the Cascades, and
rain shadows have lots of water and so of plant life.

However, last year's bill included the information that that would no
longer be happening. It's hard to say what the next step in this will
be.
--=20
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"