On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 14:29:20 -0400, Reginald P. Smithers III penned
the following well considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:

wrote:
| On Oct 24, 12:57 pm, HK wrote:
| Gene Kearns wrote:
| On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 13:00:40 -0000, penned the
| following well considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:
| |On Oct 22, 6:35 pm, "Reginald P. Smithers III"
| wrote:
| | Gene Kearns wrote:
| | On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 09:14:20 -0400, HK penned the following well
| | considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:
| |
| | CNN had a feature on Lake Lanier this morning. Apparently water levels
| | are way, way down, and if there isn't some serious protracted rain soon,
| | a goodly portion of Georgia will be facing drought.
| |
| | Meanwhile, the video showed the shorelines of the lake line with dead
| | shellfish and fish, left behind as the water receded.
| |
| | What's the impact on boating?
| |
| | Looks like it is getting tough on the Great Lakes, too....
| | http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/22/ny.../22oswego.html
| |
| | Well, I am not going to let them come down to Lake Lanier and use our
| | water, that is for sure. - Hide quoted text -
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| |
| |Now THAT'S funny! News report this morning says that the Corp will
| |take 6 weeks to review the release of water from Lanier! WTF? They
| |know damned well how much water they release, and how to fix the
| |problems.
| Seems to me that GA, as first steward in a serial path, is responsible
| for controlling the amount of demand on a finite supply. They have
| allowed expansion beyond what nature is willing to provide, on an
| ongoing basis. They need to stop whining and address the *real*
| problem..... allowing overpopulation in sensitive areas.
| This is just as stoopid as building on the shoreline and wanting
| somebody to buy you out of trouble when a hurricane makes your
| dwelling disappear.
| Indeed. It also annoys me that my homeowners' premium reflects the
| losses for those who choose to live dangerously. I chose NOT to build my
| house on the edge of insanity, and yet my premium covers some of the
| cost of providing insurance for those who do.
|
| If you live on a low shoreline, or in a flood plain, or in an area of
| earthquakes or frequent hurricanes or forest fires, the cost of
| providing you with insurance should be borne by you and others who live
| in dangerous areas like yours, not by me.
|
| I live next to Cheseapeake Bay, but my house is approximately 120' above
| sea level. If we're flooded out by the Bay, well, so is the rest of the
| east coast all the way to Ohio.- Hide quoted text -
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|
| I agree that you and I shouldn't have to pay for someone else's
| indescretions. But, in a free society, people are allowed to move and
| build. Maybe you are causing my health care premiums to rise because
| you're close to a body of water, and creating a greater risk of you
| getting a disease from mosquitoes. There is no perfect place to live,
| and no perfect solution. Where you live is, in fact in a higher wind
| speed area, and that burden falls upon others in their insurance
| premiums.
|
|
|Harry is safe from floods, but anyone on the coast is more likely to be
|hit with a strong hurricane than one who lives inland. I really don't
|know if insurance companies charge a premium based upon location, but
|they really should.

Oh.... you bet they do! Either that or they refuse coverage all
together. One approach:
http://www.insurancejournal.com/news...7/23/30901.htm

Insurance is a managed risk. The problem arises when the risk is
unmanageable. If you build right on the water, you know you are going
to float away every 4-5 years.... Harry is at more risk with regard to
hurricanes than somebody living safely in Kansas.... but then, there
*are* those tornadoes.....

I don't know where you would live, if you sought *no* risk. I am quite
sure that if you build clearly in harms way...... it's just a matter
of time.....

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