Zoom out: Prospective buyers are getting priced out. Home and flood insurance rates in Florida have skyrocketed as much as 400% over the past five years, and those premiums will likely only get worse after this year’s hurricane season. Disaster models are projecting an average of $35 billion in damages from Hurricane Milton, according to Enki Research.—ML

Zoom in: One homeowner told the Wall Street Journal he’s been trying to sell his ~$580,000 suburban Tampa house for eight months, but he hasn’t even received open house visitors.

STORMS BRING COMPLEMENTARY PROBLEMS

The housing market is hurting
Milton and Helene are compounding another problem: People aren’t migrating to Florida like they used to.

With Tampa’s housing supply up 58% and demand down 10% in August, half of the area’s for-sale listings had gotten price cuts as of a month ago, according to the analytics firm Parcl Labs.

S: Morning Brew

THE REAL STORM WE FACE...

ON this date in 2001 - Rush Limbaugh, the consummate asshole, announced to his listeners that he was totally deaf in his left ear and had only partial hearing in his right ear.

The condition had happened in a three-month period.

Bun Man just turned to me and said "What's the problem, he never used his ears for listening anyway..."

Amen, little buddy, Amen...

On the debates, the campaign and life...

Theater is Theater...

We live our lives now to receive faves and likes, not to solve anything.

TOPICAL

#pups4peace

Ken-Dogger: Hey Hoot
Hoot: Did you see that story on climate change yesterday? Kinda said we’re not really doomed.
KD: Saw that, but it did say we need action now.
H: Oh Crap, you mean legislators have our fate?
KD: Yep, and they will wait for the 11th hour for someone/something to save ‘em.
H: Like some technological improvement?
KD: Yes, a tech breakthrough, but it needs to be a real one.
H: IKR, the breakthroughs we’ve been having are ‘Give Me a Break, I’m Through.’

"Indulging in a fetish of commercialized individualism, we did away with the public realm, and with nothing left but private life in our private homes and private cars, we wonder what happened to the spirit of community.

We created a landscape of scary places and became a nation of scary people."

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From a Great Book, 'The Geography of Nowhere'...

"When they come to chronicle the decline of this civilization, they're going to wonder why we were debating flag burning, abortion, and broccoli eating instead of the fundamental issues of how we live and use the environment."

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I don't want to be the one who

CALLS THE QUESTION

on the confidence game we're all playing with our monetary system.

We all take risks choosing the places where we live.

Those risks are taken by individuals and often by towns and cities.

Given we aren't doing JACK SHIT on any effective climate change action, how much collective risk does a country take?

Morning Peeps,

I'm sleeping better and longer...Found a new ENT surgeon friend Saturday night at the PEO event, and now doing a generic Flonase each night before bed, and it's helping.

Slept straight through to 0400, I never do that.

Playing in the Men's League again this morning, gives me a morning teetime at this High Season time of year here. And guess who came in first last week? THE KID

Will there be Iranian jets following the path of Milton because that's what they tried to tell us in the early 2000s?

Or is this just the Democrats' scheme to turn Florida and Texas blue?

JUST CHECKING...

In the USA, don't we lock up HABITUAL CRIMINALS?

#45 IS THE POSTER CHILD OF HABITUAL CRIMINALS...

As we said our goodbyes to summer, important to remember...

And The Sweet Secret Of
A Summer Place
Is That It's Anywhere
When Two People Share
All Their Hopes
All Their Dreams
All Their Love

#minhowlkinmoments

Pedro X. Molina sharing JD's self-portrait

WHEN LIFE MATTERS MORE THAN LEGACY

Sadly, the only lesson he has learned is to do it again, only with greater vigor this time around. He is, as Bannon said last time, sure to declare victory, and to pursue it in the courts, even if he loses at the ballot box. Only a decisive defeat will stop him and his crew. Indictments were not enough.

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https://www.arcamax.com/politics/fromtheleft/susanestrich/s-3438119

Susan Estrich on Repubs

The common theme of the Republican efforts is shrinking the voter rolls of those who are more likely to vote Democratic, whether it is mail-in voters or legal immigrants or even the disabled, and to give local election officials more freedom to refuse to certify the results. Which is exactly what Donald Trump tried and failed at in 2020.

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Historybook: Edgar Allan Poe dies (1849); World’s oldest airline still operating, KLM, is founded (1919); American cellist Yo-Yo Ma born (1955); US invasion of Afghanistan begins (2001).

"They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."

- From Edgar Allan Poe's "Eleonora"