Full quote from the Senator many voted for:
"We're talking about damn fools that have built houses on the edge of the sea for as long as man could remember and against every advice anyone has given," A.R. "Babe" Schwartz said.
Your friendly US Senator from Galveston, Texas
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26780578
Lose your house or have damage to a hurricane, and you can't repair it.
"Those whose homes were destroyed can collect insurance. But it is unclear whether those whose undamaged homes are condemned under the Texas law will get any compensation, from the state or anyone else. Land Office spokesman Jim Suydam said the agency used to offer people up to $50,000 to move, but he didn't know if that fund still exists."
This country sucks on hurricanes.
I'm a little unsettled about this one. Looks like a lot of Galveston residents aren't going to be residents much longer. Yet I don't know if merely owning property in these areas is the owners' fault. And I have direct experience with these types of zoning laws: I chose to do a facelift on my garage, because if I tore it down, I'd have to move my pool. So these folks performed a facelift on their houses, to be on the beach. And now, boom. They own property which has no value since they can't build on it.
"We're talking about damn fools that have built houses on the edge of the sea for as long as man could remember and against every advice anyone has given," A.R. "Babe" Schwartz said.
Your friendly US Senator from Galveston, Texas
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26780578
Lose your house or have damage to a hurricane, and you can't repair it.
"Those whose homes were destroyed can collect insurance. But it is unclear whether those whose undamaged homes are condemned under the Texas law will get any compensation, from the state or anyone else. Land Office spokesman Jim Suydam said the agency used to offer people up to $50,000 to move, but he didn't know if that fund still exists."
This country sucks on hurricanes.
I'm a little unsettled about this one. Looks like a lot of Galveston residents aren't going to be residents much longer. Yet I don't know if merely owning property in these areas is the owners' fault. And I have direct experience with these types of zoning laws: I chose to do a facelift on my garage, because if I tore it down, I'd have to move my pool. So these folks performed a facelift on their houses, to be on the beach. And now, boom. They own property which has no value since they can't build on it.
