I am also not sure that the Outer Banks have been wiped out by hurricanes. Kitty Hawk usually gets some damage because of the proximity of those older cottages to the ocean, but no newer real estate has been washed away, to my knowledge, at least not in mass quantity.

Effects of Hurricane Isabel in North Carolina
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The effect of Hurricane Isabel on North Carolina was the worst from a hurricane since Hurricane Floyd made landfall in 1999. Hurricane Isabel formed from a tropical wave on September 6, 2003 in the tropical Atlantic Ocean. It moved northwestward, and within an environment of light wind shear and warm waters it steadily strengthened to reach peak winds of 165 mph (265 km/h) on September 11. After fluctuating in intensity for four days, Isabel gradually weakened and made landfall on the Outer Banks of North Carolina with winds of 105 mph (165 km/h) on September 18. It quickly weakened over land and became extratropical over western Pennsylvania the next day.

Isabel produced moderate to heavy damage across eastern North Carolina, totaling $450 million (2003 USD, $495 million 2006 USD). Damage was heaviest in Dare County, where storm surge flooding and strong winds damaged thousands of houses. The storm surge produced a 2,000 foot (600 m) wide inlet on Hatteras Island, isolating Hatteras by road for two months. Strong winds downed hundreds of trees of across the state, leaving up to 700,000 residents without power. Most areas with power outages had power restored within a few days. The hurricane directly killed one person and indirectly killed two in the state.

Absolutely. At least we think for ourselves and don’t quote the party line.

And if things get too shiny, we fight back;)

Is the earth turning in the opposite direction? LOL

I do leave the middle of the road…but not always in the direction you might like. That’s the problem with us moderates. We can go either way.

I am sure we will have other agreements.

Uninsured vehicles and drivers should NOT be on our roads period. Seems pretty simple NO INSURANCE then you have NO DRIVING PRIVILEGES. Driving is a privilege not a right. The valid insurance policy should have to be produced anytime you are conducting business at DMV. I know they send random letters requesting proof of insurance. That’s a waste of paper and postage and not protecting the citizens of Virginia.

What is the reasoning behind the fee to have an uninsured vehicle? Why not just ban it all together?

“The $500 Uninsured Motor Vehicle (UMV) fee, which is paid to the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV), does not provide any insurance; it only allows you to drive an uninsured vehicle at your own risk.”

Even then, the problem is that a lot of vehicles on our highways are not only uninsured, they do not pay the $500 fee either.

I think you can pay to not have insurance….like a liability fee…uninsured motor vehicle fee. Hell I don’t know. It would never occur to me to do something so irresponsible.

Can someone else chime in on how this works?
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M64 is the best it seems (c;

I believe there is a law that people have auto insurance. My point was, I do not like having to pay uninsured motorist insurance. If they do not have it, they get a fine, usually less than the premium for a year and a slap on the wrist to get proper insurance. This isn’t pointed at ILLEGAL aliens particularly, just all that drive.

I like impounding the car and jailing the owner/driver. I think 10-15 days in jail would get the point across. This would allow a bit of an impound fee to incur as well. Consequences, now if that happens, it would have been cheaper for them to have auto insurance to begin with. Consequences, that is what has to happen, a deterrent for not doing what you are suppose to.

It sort of makes you wonder who really is the stupid one.
I would like for there to be mandatory auto insurance. If you don’t have it on the car, the car doesn’t go on the road. If someone is caught without insurance, the car is impounded and the driver or owner or both jailed.

I have a serious take no prisoners attitude on this one.

I am also not sure that the Outer Banks have been wiped out by hurricanes. Kitty Hawk usually gets some damage because of the proximity of those older cottages to the ocean, but no newer real estate has been washed away, to my knowledge, at least not in mass quantity.

Exactly, why should I pay for someone that doesn’t carry car insurance? I pay my premium why should I pay theirs to?

The reason is because we are not rich and don’t get catered to. Those stupid enough to build in those situations, deserve what they get. It all boils down to consequences. There are none for them. The Gov’t will sweep in and fix everything for them because they are stupid.

http://www.floodsmart.gov/floodsmart/pages/faq_types.jsp

I would like see homeowners who have NOT built on sand, as it were, band together and invite underwriters to bid on their collective business. There are actually quite a few of us around who don’t live in palaces constructed on mud hills, barrier islands, flood plains, and beneath levees.

And since the Feds love to throw our tax dollars that those who do, maybe there oughta be a special tax credit for people who don’t live in idiotic places.

The same holds true for those in CA on the hill sides. It rains, dirt erodes and the houses fall down the hill. I guess it is because they get the help, they continue to build on them. I am tired of paying for it. We need to look into this type of spending and get a cap on it. Once the amount budgeted has been used, that is it. No more money. If you happen to have a disaster in the last part of the year, then too bad. The Gov’t needs to budget the money to last all year long.

I can’t print money when my bills are due and I do not have enough to pay them, so why does the Gov’t get to?

This is what I was afraid of. The Gov’t rewarding people for making bad choices.

Look at all of the people who have high priced diggs on the outer banks. Everytime a hurricane wipes them out, they rebuild with the help of the feds and insurance companies. Next hurricane and they do the same thing. You can’t build a house on a flood plane, but it’s okay to get wiped out everytime a hurricane comes through. No logic!999

http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html

This is a link to Center for Immigration Studies

“This study is one of the first to estimate the total impact of illegal immigration on the federal budget. Most previous studies have focused on the state and local level and have examined only costs or tax payments, but not both. Based on Census Bureau data, this study finds that, when all taxes paid (direct and indirect) and all costs are considered, illegal households created a net fiscal deficit at the federal level of more than $10 billion in 2002. We also estimate that, if there was an amnesty for illegal aliens, the net fiscal deficit would grow to nearly $29 billion.”
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This isn’t some right wing group, it is the Gov’t telling us how much this will cost. Given that it is based on the 2002 census you will have to do some math to see what the increase would be proportionate to the number of ILLEGAL aliens that have entered since the 2002 census was taken.