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<DIV>In a message dated 9/7/2004 10:20:55 AM Eastern Daylight Time, jlarryh@iquest.net writes:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT face=Arial>Why would guys volunteer for this? They get paid double time from the time<BR>they leave, until the time they get home, 24 hours a day. They do earn it.<BR>:-)</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>
<DIV>Nice to know that folks choosing not to live in harm's way have to subsidize people living in 'Paradise' without state taxes, etc. Florida was basically unihabitable until air conditioning (courtesy of John Carrier and electricity) arrived in the 1940's. While living in Ohio in 1992, I dumped my Allstate insurance after hurricane Andrew gave them allowance to raise my home insurance rate in Ohio 50%. Screw that. I went with a more local insurance outfit and saved big-time. Hopefully recent deregulation of electric company outfits will allow me to switch providers if they try to make me pay for companies charging for doing interstate business and repairs in Florida. I'll find a way to switch them, too. Hurricanes are part of life down there. They should pay the costs of living there. No disrespect to the linemen, workers, etc.</DIV>
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<DIV>-Karl.</DIV></BODY></HTML>