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That’s why I escalated in my original post. Did you read it? We pay for 1 in 100 years. Sure. What about 1 in 20? Maybe 1 in 10? Uhhh 1 in 5? Let's look at
by Swizec 9y ago
That’s why I escalated in my original post. Did you read it?
We pay for 1 in 100 years. Sure.
What about 1 in 20? Maybe
1 in 10? Uhhh
1 in 5?
Let's look at some stats. The east coast gets devastated by some hurricane or another about every 5 years right? Like absolutely trashed. Other years it gets milder hurricanes.
At what point do we require hurricane insurance of everyone near the Atlantic Ocean? Or at least some sort of federal hurricane tax. We KNOW it’s going to hit some part of the coast super hard every small number of years. Why are we so surprised every time?
I mean, look at this wikipedia page on hurricanes in the US[1]. For the past 160 years we've had between 10 and 25 hurricanes hit land every decade. That's an average of 1 to 2.5 hurricanes PER YEAR.
Why are we so surprised every time?
Something that happens every year is not a rare event.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_hurricanes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_hurrican...
- chrisco255 9y agoWe already do require flood insurance for anyone who lives in flood plains, which are defined by the 100 year high water mark in each area.
- rhizome 9y agoI'm not an actuary, so I'll have to defer my quantitative analysis, but: Or at least some sort of federal hurricane tax We already have this. Federal income taxes are what's used to fund FEMA, which admittedly only handles one aspect of a complex disaster, but if I take your point correctly it would provide a narrowing of the issues.