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Oct 31·edited Oct 31Pinned

As an addendum, I forgot to add, speaking of the vagaries of nature, all a lot of these old guys talk about is their injuries, lol

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Nov 1·edited Nov 1Liked by William Hunter Duncan

When my bestie wanted to get out of CA she nearly got talked into a semi beach front condo in that area that was being sold by a nutrition consultant that she knew at the time. I'd like to think I talked her out of it...

(I admit mostly because I didn't want to visit her in FL...)

She then found herself a place in Asheville Nc....

Ain't nowhere safe. I just moved myself out onto what is probably an historic floodplain because the rent is cheap.

And us old folk talk about injuries because I can tell you, at 60 they all come back and haunt you. Just had the local Trailer Hauler and his lady out here doing their thing. Half the time we talked about their joint replacement surgeries and how effed up it is to be old.

Its (for me) instead of 'hope I die before I get old, but hope I die before I can no longer lift a 4x6 to shore up a porch canopy....

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Upper Midwest is about as safe as it gets, I figure. Though my liberal MN government wants to out-do Cali. As to age I long figured, when it’s time one last trip into my beloved Boundary Waters Wilderness.

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Oct 31Liked by William Hunter Duncan

Your descripion of Florida covered with sand is thought provoking indeed. Are government building codes wrong? misguided? More focused on insurers than residents? Why must it cost so much to (re)build a home? Whose advantage is that?

Must we all have a storm shelter to retire to in bad weather? Why should we be forced to live in a storm shelter?

Nice baseball diamond!

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The code meisters have no care for inflating the cost of building. It helps corporations and insurance companies, though at some point it will collapse the building economy which will reduce all their income. Though the only reason there has not been a major recession recently is because the Fed Reserve printed 15 trillion roughly during Covid which continues to float the Dow Jones.

Most of this region is basically a swamp, little of it more than 10ft above the gulf. I’m at a house on a canal right now 10ft above the average water level. The water came up 9.5 feet during Milton.

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Oct 31Liked by William Hunter Duncan

I love it! Beautifully stated William.

Yes, I could live like that :)

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