Florida Staring Down The Barrel of Ian

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by finnbow

And now I read that every single Florida Republican in Congress refused to vote for Hurricane Ian relief funds (while at the same time many lobbied for it as did DeSantis).

They knew it would pass anyway, so they were free to be stupidly consistent with previous conservative "fuck your needs" votes.

[Rajoo]

Biden should do the bare minimum and say "ask your representatives why they voted no". But he won't, even though this is a golden opportunity to own the Repugnants.

And send brooms to DeSantis and say "clean up yourself".

People living in Martha's Vineyard should send DeSatan a truckload of brooms and say go f..k yourself.

[donquixote99]

Send paper towles.

[Rajoo]

Forgot about JT's Larry Bird imitation in PR.

[Pio1980]

DeSantis asked the feds for hurricane relief. But he’s long used their cash.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/1...ities-00060020

[RickeyM]

After Ian, and now...

Alligators and snakes, oh my.

I guess mother nature's reclaiming her own.

All those nice pretty houses built right on the water's edge. All those dwellings built on barrier islands. So much development on fine loamy sand.

[Rajoo]

Sanibel island is not an island but a sand bar. Nature is reclaiming it.

[RickeyM]

Originally Posted by Rajoo

Sanibel island is not an island but a sand bar. Nature is reclaiming it.

They allowed people to build on a sand bar?!?

https://www.sanibelisland.com/

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by RickeyM

They allowed people to build on a sand bar?!?

https://www.sanibelisland.com/

All of the barrier islands on the East Coast are sand bars. Hell, Miami Beach is (mostly) a man-made sandbar made by dredging sand up from Biscayne Bay in the 1920's. Even worse than these sandbars are the places like Cape Coral that was basically oceanfront marsh that was drained by canals and left horrifically exposed to the elements. Here's a really good article about Florida coastline development in general and Cape Coral in particular.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/ar...estate/671629/

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by finnbow

All of the barrier islands on the East Coast are sand bars. Hell, Miami Beach is (mostly) a man-made sandbar made by dredging sand up from Biscayne Bay in the 1920's. Even worse than these sandbars are the places like Cape Coral that was basically oceanfront marsh that was drained by canals and left horrifically exposed to the elements. Here's a really good article about Florida coastline development in general and Cape Coral in particular.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/ar...estate/671629/

Meanwhile we bluestaters are obligated to funding rebuilding these peckerwood's castles built on sand while they talk smack with their hands out.

Florida is a lost cause with sea levels rising. Every 'King tide' has the ocean pouring out of manholes into the street. How the feck is that sustainable? smh