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[–] 42 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Massive flooding of whole cities is simply not an insurable thing. Not even with all the reinsurers in the world can you pay out a city of millions. Most sane countries don't even try.

I live about 5m under sea level. Should de dikes breach and my polder flood (and I don't die horribly), the insurance company pays fuck all. The Dutch state has a giant mountain of cash sitting by for cases like that.

Of course, handing DeSantis a giant pile of emergency cash would just mean it instantly gets turned into bribes, so that wouldn't work for Florida.

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    Fun fact, the biggest point in Florida is currently 345 feet above sealevel. (it’s somewhere near the ballsack.)

    The average is like 100

    It’s a very bad state to ignore climate change in.

    (Edit fixed the stats.)

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