Hurricanes

I just hate the thought of another hurricane season. So many lives disrupted and so many news stories about damage and despair. So many mobile homes turned into tornado food.

Why does somebody build a million dollar home 200 yards off the ocean anyhow? I have a hard time feeling sorry for them. One big wave and whoosh, no house. Easy to see. Like living in house that leaks, the answer is "GET OUT" or better yet, don't move in , in the first place.

Yesterday in the news was a story about a 71 year old man who had lived in his house for 39 years , had no flood insurance, had never been flooded, and even though he lived in a big city (Atlanta) , he got flooded out of his house after a foot of rain fell. House basically destroyed, life shattered. Homeless after working his butt off all his life. He and his wife were OK, and they made it out alive , but still thats gotta suck. Now him, I feel sorry for. What a raw deal.

The moron who builds a house on the side of a mountain in California and gets clobbered by a mudslide or the guy who builds a big house in the middle of a forest and it gets burned down I have no sympathy for. Mountains slide, forest burn. Life goes on.

But a place that basically has never flooded gets inundated by a foot of rain from the leftovers of a hurricane and you lose everything in 20 minutes ?

Momma never said life was fair I guess.