So, let me get this straight, a little help?

Question

Every year for centuries wildfires hit Californmia in that one area, people know this yet build million dollar houses there. Explain to me, why I am supposed to feel sorry for idiots with more money than brains.

Answer 1

I agree with you completely.  The same holds true for people who build homes on the ocean and when it's destroyed they  want tax payers to bail them out.  If a person wants to take a chance and build in a risky area OK, but don't expect me to pay for it if it 's destroyed.

Answer 2

same reason you might feel sorry for people that build on beaches when they get wiped out by storms, and people that build on lowlands and get flooded, and people that live on the flanks of active volcanoes when they erupt, and people that die of drug overdoses.  The humanity (empathetic aspect) in me feels for the loss, but at the same time I recognize the loss is largely of their own making.

Answer 3

I say the h**l with them.

It is like on Long Island NY they have Dune Road, every few years the water comes up and takes out houses, and they rebuild with our tax money. But it is also a private Road that we can not go on.

I say s***w them let them pay to rebuild.

Answer 4

Whether anyone is asking for your pity is debatable. What is interesting is that humans do build homes and other structures in the most dangerous and illogical of sites,

i.e. a Linear Accelerator built directly over and along the San Andreas Fault adjacent to Stanford.

And there's about  50,000 souls still living at the base of Mt. Vesuvius.

That's the question? Why would anyone want to live in New Orleans 2 inches above Sea Level?

Make your own connections

Answer 5

People build houses after fires hoping that the government will prevent this from happening again....plus fires don't pick areas to burn it happens,

Answer 6

We have the same problem here in NY.  People build million dollar houses on the beach of Long Island and when there is a severe storm the houses get washed into the ocean.  Then they expect the government to pay them for their loss.  I do not understand how they get away with it!

Answer 7

They have money. They have insurance. Let them rebuild.

That's life sometimes. Luckily one of my summer homes there isn't threatened.