Horrible. Is it that the orgs that would help don’t have enough funding or was it something about these cases in particular that made them difficult to be helped?

Congrats, Florian!! Well deserved.

Have loved this poem for a while. Also, ooof.

Ah, so they are fine as long as the coverage limit exceeds the amount outstanding of the loan.

Great article. I wonder how many of the stories mentioned in the article are for houses with a mortgage? I would be surprised/even more alarmed if banks were allowing borrowers to under insure to that extent, but it could happen

the undulating marsh grasses at sunset, golden against the deep blue inlets? the paddling water birds, the messy osprey nests?

“This is happiness… this is what heaven feels like. Everybody else is jealous of us.”

Big issue with these kinds of bills is how do you know that the work has actually been done and is maintained - esp if it involves gardening. Inspecting costs ~$200. Too high for most insurance policies to handle. And of course, it matters what your neighbor (who is insured by somebody else) does...

(I am specifically looking for county/tract outlines for 2010, which used to be available in Tigris. Thank you, by the way, for your work on that excellent package!)

Thanks for the alert! This seems to only have 2020 Census boundaries, not older years. Is this right or am I missing something?

Census geographic shapefiles via the R Tigris package are down as of today. Definitely no private companies like oh say insurance companies care about where things are located 😡

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