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Deuxcents

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14. Your point is well taken

Reply to Think. Again. (Reply #11)

Sat Jul 5, 2025, 11:31 PM

Jul 5

I have been thru many hurricanes in my life and I can say that they have become larger and much more ferocious because of human indifferences and lack of action to take care of our environment. My point is.. no matter how advanced we’ve become technology wise, we are not in control of how these storms..any storm will turn out. A wobble here or there changes a lot of things like direction, speed and ultimate damage. We can’t control that. I certainly agree we’ve been warned for many years and evidence of what could happen if we don’t take action to change our behavior but we didn’t and still don’t have the will or leadership to change..and that is what we can control.

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