Nix Bits

This Time Magazine article asks the question “Could Florida Survive the Big One?”  I think the answer is “no.”  Americans, it’s time to consider abandoning the state of Florida.  We can just move Disneyworld and Universal Studios a few hundred miles inland to somewhere near Atlanta and it’s all good.

Florida is just kinda out there like a sitting duck. I’m not a geographical, hydrological, meteorological or any other kinda expert but it’s pretty obvious when you look at a map.  It’s going to happen one day.  And it’s going to be really expensive. Why should the rest of us pay to clean up what we know is inevitable? All those “snow birds” need to stop expecting the rest of us hard-working taxpayers to bail them out. It’s time to cut our losses.

Clearly Florida is way too risky. The insurance industry sure thinks so:

Industry actuaries say the problem is simple: Florida’s insurance rates, high as they may be, are not high enough for a state with an estimated 25% of America’s high-risk property.

And as an added bonus, no more “hanging chads” messing with our electoral college.

This is in response to the inevitable post-Gustav, post-Katrina editorials I recently read but will not link to.  I will, however, link to this excellent Louisiana Weekly rebuttal: