This is Why I Don't Live Back East

The weather east of the Rockies can be horrendous, and Hurricane Florence merely proves my point.  It is going to take weeks and weeks for these Carolina towns to be back to normal.

And then the idiot politicians allowed rich people to build homes right on the goddamned beach ala Malibu, California, but the latter is less prone to severe weather than the East Coast.  It is infuriating.

I am glad Oregon does NOT allow any private homes on any of its beaches.  The entire 300--plus miles of Oregon coast is open to the public.  No houses next to each other.  All of it public land.

That is the way it should be.

I used to know this guy from where I worked years ago.  It was a book distribution company.  He was one of these retired career military guys and a raving wingnut.  He quit the military when Bill Clinton became president, which shows you how nonpartisan this guy was and is.  He left the  book distribution employer, bounced from senior management job to senior management job, from company to company, most in book distribution, and he finally ended up in Jacksonville, North Carolina, one of the main centers of this hurricane. It is a pure whitebread town.   His entire family I believe is career military; hell, even his third wife, a nurse, works at the Naval Hospital around Camp Lejeune.  Anyway, the idiot decided, because his wife was staying at the hospital since she had to stay to help deliver babies, he would stay for the duration of the hurricane with her.  What a damned idiot.  Meanwhile, the rest of his family and the dogs went up  the eastern seaboard to New York where his other kid  lives.  I look on his Facebook page to see how he is faring.  I guess his house is still intact but one of his trees bit the dust.

You couldn't PAY me enough money to live back there.