Dr. Kim Wood

Harvey demonstrated that with its ridiculous five feet of rain record.

Yeah, yeah.

So I try to meet people where they are.

You know, if I'm having a conversation with somebody about something that they clearly really care about and I have information that might change their perspective on what they're thinking about, such as retiring on a beach, I try to highlight, like, these are the things that you want to think about.

So I shouldn't throw them under the bus, but my parents were thinking about doing something like that.

And I was...

pretty emphatic about the things they would need to consider if they wanted to live in a place like that.

And they ended up retiring to Phoenix.

So a different set of problems.

But yeah, it's tough because I understand the call of the water.

There's something special about having easy access to a beach.

But everyone needs to assess their own personal level of risk and what they're willing to take, you know, based on their financial resources, physical resources, time resources, that sort of thing.

And so when people are thinking about building something really cool in a risky place, it's like

If you're going to do that, think about these, you know, unlikely but increasingly risky scenarios.

Yeah.

So that you go in with both eyes wide open.

And if something were to happen, hopefully you've got plans in place so that you can get out of there alive because that's what matters in the end.

Choosing a place to live is hard.

Packing up all your stuff is hard.

You know, I never want my advice to be, oh, just move, because it just it doesn't account for the lives people are actually living.