The Houston Gang

That paragraph shows great ignorance of economics.

...and what about the other side of the equation. Leftys never look at the whole picture.

As did this one.

Broken windows are great for the economy. Too bad we don't have more cat-4 hurricanes.

Please, enlighten us as to the "other side of the equation". Demonstrate your superior education in economics.

No, that was a sarcastic response. The second sentence should have made that pretty clear.

OK, I know it won't help a lefty understand economics (an impossibility) but the opportunity lost from the money that now has to go into replacing those vehicles exceeds the economic gain from the companies making the replacements.

As you'll note above, the statement was simply that it's likely that the automakers will have higher output the next couple of quarters, which may make investing in them more attractive. In no way can the statement be confused as making any comment on the overall economic picture related to the replacement.

As usual, you've jumped to a conclusion that allows you namecall, like any 4th grader.

Now, you want to talk politics, we can discuss the lack of zoning in the Houston area that led to many houses being built in flood zones, and the inability of congress to write rules restricting the application of government backed flood insurance to locations that should never have been built-on in the first place. Perhaps pay off once, but never again for the same property.

No, the implication is that it the economy is improved. It's certainly not, though GDP might be (since it's an artificial number).

I would never overestimate a lefty, such as yourself.

OK. ;~) Mind you I have a very good friend/neighbor that moved here almost 7 years from Indiana. He was way anxious to go through a hurricane. I warned him a few years ago to be careful what you wish for. His home is actually the lowest point in our neighborhood and he had water up to his front porch. He wants nothing to do with a hurricane ever again..and he had no damage at all. I just get a little touchy when it comes to hurricanes and what they bring.

Sell your insurance co stocks, and don't bitch when your insurance rates fo up

DerbyDad03 wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@googlegroups.com:

You'd want them to be stored within easy distance of rail lines, because on land railroads are the way to move them efficiently. I'd probably scatter them about: a small pile in Chicago, a small pile in Cheyenne, a small pile in Kansas City. Maybe about a train's or two's worth. That way, when disaster hits the trains can all originate at different points and hopefully won't disrupt too much traffic on the railroads.

Some prestaging may be useful, but you'd probably be better off loading the trains as the storm is hitting rather than trying to prestage and finding the forecast was wrong.

Puckdropper

Or the units damaged by the storm.

Hate to have 200 container homes floating around Houston or the Bif Eazy during the storm - - - -

Geez, pick at nits much?

Whether you start with a container as a framework or whether you start from scratch and build a habitation that can be handled using standard container-handling equipment, you end up in the same place, and whining about how it can't be done is just obstructionism.

So it's better if factories or stores or farms are in flood zones?

The whole point of goverment flood compensation (it's not "insurance" in anything but name) is that it pays for damage to properties that no insurer in their right mind would cover.

It is one thing to insure in a 500 year floor plain and something else for houses built right on the beach. I don't feel to bad for someone that builds 40 feet from the high tide line. It is not "if" but "when" and don't ask me for a handout to rebuild your $3million beach house.

No, you simply do not build at all in those zones.

Still clueless? Flood insurance is sold by insurance companies and is backed by the government, FEMA FEMA will "LOAN" money to those that have no flood insurance

Again with the strawman. Why build anything in a flood zone?

Which would leave half of the southern coastal USA swampland - like it was before the developers moved in.