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What I believe is that my city came together in a time of great stress and has been prevailing. What I believe is that my city's people decided that it was mor
by angersock 9y ago
What I believe is that my city came together in a time of great stress and has been prevailing.
What I believe is that my city's people decided that it was more important to have growth and to bounce back than to limit itself in the face of known weather.
What I believe is that we are richer and more diverse because of the lack of zoning and because of aggressive (if irresponsible) development, and that more people had better lives than would have if we'd said "oh well i guess we should give up".
What I believe is that none of the people who haven't lived here for years have much useful to say that isn't just virtue signalling and apocalyptic rubbernecking.
And lastly, calling our people irrational while you enjoy the fruit of our labors in the form of cheap gasoline, cheap imports, and good cancer care I believe is extremely tacky.
- QAPereo 9y agoAll of your beliefs are fine, but your city still drowned, and will again with increasing frequency. As a species, we need to learn to start discussing these issues instead of always reacting to them after the fact. The pepole who are going to suffer most are the ones who do what you do, and believe uber alles, because while it's your human right, nature just doesn't care at all.
- angersock 9y agoWe'll be fine in six months, and humming along in another six.
- QAPereo 9y agoYou might be, many others will remain devastated.
- graeme 9y agoAt how much cost in emergency aid from elsewhere?
- cmurf 9y agoAfter coastal Texas gets $120+ billion courtesy of the Federal government. If this was a free market state's rights kinda program, Texas should raise the cost of it's exports and fund this rebuild entirely on its own.
- sapienthomo 9y agoAfter every household in America ponies up $1000 to rebuild your infinite spreading plane of HEB parking lots. You're welcome in advance, mr. bootstraps.
- surgeryres 9y agoHEB is awesome though. And so is Bucy's. Thanks in advance.
- mozumder 9y agoOK now how much of my money would you like me to pay to you to make sure that you are fine?
- selimthegrim 9y agoAs a resident of New Orleans, I'd like to know your ideas about how to deal with subsidence?
- AndrewKemendo 9y agoI grew up in Houston, all my family is there still, and I agree with this article as well as the OP. Argue the man on his points, not your feelings.
- cmurf 9y ago85% of Harris county residents do not have flood insurance. Mortgage companies colluded with homeowners, land lords, and politicians to complain about big government regulations making people's homes too expensive by requiring it. And now here are those mortgage companies and homeowners and landlords asking to be bailed out, to rebuild, to change no behavior. This is worse than just paying people to sit on the sofa. That's cheap compared to this. At least they spend that money and it involves no asset destruction. Houston is basically asking the country to refund bad choices, transfer wealth back into physical assets located in coastal Texas, which will inevitably be destroyed again at some point in the future. shrug Fine. But I think flood insurance should be mandatory. And it should be at cost (no profit). But it should not be subsidized. And I think that's the same for any coastal area. And for people who live in fire prone forest areas. But I will bet money that Ted Cruz and Texas politicians will be begging for more money than Katrina. And the next time there's a hurricane not in Texas they'll all bitch and moan about how most of that money is pork, and then vote against it just like they did with hurricane Sandy.
- 1_2__4 9y agoGood lord get over yourself.
- urbanj 9y agoWhat I believe is that you're a cunt. Hey, this belief thing is great.
- dang 9y agoWould you please not post rants like this to HN, regardless of how tacky other people are?
- QAPereo 9y agoAgain, no need to be rude in getting your point across.