August 16, 2004
Places not to live: part 62
Frustrated in Florida...
Many of the people hit by Charley lived in mobile homes and lost almost everything
You know, there are very few things in life dumber than living in a mobile home in a part of the world that's popular with hurricanes: it's not a question of if you're going to lose everything, it's just a matter of when you're going to lose everything.
Not that I'm unsympathetic to these people, because I am, but methinks a slightly more thoughtful local/state government [I mean, they knew all about hurricanes, right???] might have saved them from ever being in this predicament in the first place.