I buddy of mine happen to be in Southwest Florida recently. He took a boat tour out of Ft. Myers. It’s surprising how much hurricane damage is still evident. I was last in that area in 2019. It doesn’t look like it did back then.
Florida has always had problems with abandoned boats. The coast is littered with wrecks. Judging from my friend’s photos there are a lot more of them. Places that used to have them removed appear to have given up.
There’s also a lot of infrastructure that hasn’t been rebuilt. It appears they are still cleaning up debris out of the water. To be fair, some areas were hit pretty hard. A marina we used to stay at had all their boats and docks dropped into the parking lot. It doesn’t look like they recovered.
We see areas in the news that are hit with disasters. Then we forget about them. New stories drive out memory of the old stories. For the people who live in those places the nightmare doesn’t end so quickly. Sometimes the money to rebuild just isn’t there.
The more disasters that hit an area the less likely recovery becomes. Hurricanes are getting worse and doing more damage. Flooding is an issue. When places have “100 year floods” every other year something is wrong. Forest fires can quickly decimate thousands of acres in very little time.
Add in things like higher insurance rates, tougher zoning laws, and outrageously expensive building materials and it’s no wonder places remain trashed.
-Sixbears
Is a sad situation, insurance troubles, and the ever declining of social assistance from neighbors, civic pride keeps on failing.
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6 bears how much time have you done in 3rd world countries? We're rapidly moving to look just like them. Boats wrecked on beaches there however are generally rebuilt or stripped to rebuild others as they are NOT pleasure craft but working boats. Junk in the streets and yards.
But let's welcome more "newcomers" hand them pre-paid credit cards and cell phones to restore our country, just like the countries they left in such fine condition.
Your forefathers didn't sneak into America for a loaded credit card and cellphone I bet. Mine didn't. Needed PROOF of NOT Needing Public Assistance, No communicable Diseases (TB and such) and could be kicked out of America if they became a public burden.
THOSE were the Nation of Immigrants Builders.
My ancestors thought of borders as hindrance to the free passage of goods and people -and acted accordingly. Small scale smuggling was the norm along the border. Workers easily crossed borders to work whichever mill was paying better at the time. That's how so many of my extended family are on both sides of the border. Guess that makes me one of the bad people. Good thing my ancestors got in before they raised the requirements.
DeleteTax paying employed people are not "Bad People", even if they played fast and loose with the Canadian Border.
Delete"Bad People" are the takers and swindlers who somehow can "walk" from Central America and arrive in clean new clothing looking well fed.
Seems more than a few find violence a well paying "job" in our fair country.