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Message Subject Government Tells NJ Hurricane Victims to Demolish Their Homes Immediately or pay $2,000 Per Week
Poster Handle StormeyGoddess
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Some of you have no idea what you are saying!

Two generations of my family have had a house down there for 38 years. We have seen every snow storm, ice storm, rain storm, hurricane, and every likely scenario happen over that time. This was so devastating and destructive that my own eyes can not believe it. House after house, many primary homes, absolutely destroyed and collapsed. Almost every house on the block is condemned. Someone's deck was in our yard, and someone's boat was there too. It is like a bomb went off. The 70 year old guy 2 houses down from ours has been there all his life. A law abiding, tax paying citizen who kept meticulous care of his little piece of property and was enjoying his retirement. He watched every type of storm come and go over many years. When the water started rushing into his home in a split second, he ended up climbing up on his dining room table and had a heart attack.

Many of the people who live down there full time do not have a lot of money. And insurance companies will NOT offer flood insurance, because the houses are older and have "asbestos", which is absolutely bull crap. So in some cases, NO amount of money will get you flood insurance, so you don't know what you're talking about.

I could go on about the devastation, but only seeing is believing. It is heartwrenching, so try and have a heart. Many people's lives are completely destroyed.

And this, with a manufactured and steered storm MEANT to destroy, at that.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 17560134


It's still the equivalent of living on a volcano and then being surprised when it erupts and wipes out the whole village...living next to the ocean is a risk that I'm not willing to take...
 Quoting: BRIEF


It is NOTHING of the sort! There is NO comparison whatsoever to "living on a volcano", K?

Our house was over a mile from the ocean, so shut uppp!
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 17560134


I've often thought how awesome it would be for the kids and I to ride bikes down to the volcano, um, I mean ocean and jump in a boat we have docked there and go fishing, but then reality sets in and says no, that's too risky...
 Quoting: BRIEF


Call me crazy, but even with this...one day, I'm going to retire to Myrtle Beach, damn it. Or maybe Myrtle Beach will retire to me. Either way. I understand wanting to live on the coast. The beauty, the seduction. :-)

I'm seeing the devastation that can occur, and yet...there is something very alluring about living next to that amazing expanse of water we call the ocean.
 
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