Steffany Ritchie
1 min readOct 7, 2022

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I mean, where do you suggest all 20 million of them go? Should everyone in California get out too? All pile onto the tornado plains? The desert? It was a horrible disaster that happened in Ft. Myers, it was one of the few beach towns left with so many wooden structures, that will probably all change now for better or worse. Natural disasters are horrific and likely to keep getting worse but I don't think we can just run from them either. The sea temp in the gulf coast area where my Mom lives is currently 78, btw. Florida offers many people a place to call home, my Mom lives there, for 20 years, this so easily could have been her but she cannot afford to move to another state and get the same quality of house she has now. The insurance companies need to be kept in check on a national level, they can afford to take these hits with the amount of money they make. I do think Florida has gotten away with minimal hurricane preparedness on a state level and that has to change, there need to be clear evacuation routes and established shelters, hotels need to be made available as emergency shelters and decisions need to be made earlier. It is far from ideal but it is unrealistic in the current economic climate to expect people to move, especially those hit hardest by this.

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Steffany Ritchie
Steffany Ritchie

Written by Steffany Ritchie

Nicheless. American in Scotland. Publisher of "Cancer Sucks, So Let's Talk About it More"

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