Good morning radicals. Happy Monday to you and welcome to Radical Personal Finance,

the show dedicated to providing you with the knowledge, skills, insight and

encouragement you need to live a rich and meaningful life now while building a

plan for financial freedom in 10 years or less. Today we're going to talk about

insurance, practical insurance. If you're anything like me, perhaps you've been fascinated and I'm not sure the right adjective to use I was

I was going to say impressed but that makes it sound positive just fascinated and and

I don't want to use horrified because that's just far too strong at

Interested let's just go with interested if you're anything like me you've been interested to watch the unfolding disaster in Houston, Texas right now with the, and all throughout

that part of Texas, with the impact of Hurricane Harvey. And it seems as though the situation is bad and just

simply getting worse. Perhaps most dramatic simply because of the number of

people affected.

Houston of course being about the fourth largest metropolitan area

in the United States and being deeply, deeply impacted.

And talk about a huge disaster when you have this many people affected by a disaster

you can get wall-to-wall coverage.

And so I've been fascinated.

I love the world that we live in with the access to the internet to be able to pull up the local

live streams from the TV station.

So I've been watching that over the weekend.

And I thought it'd be helpful to share with you just some simple ideas that may be of use to you as you consider a disaster.

Very little of this will be helpful to listeners in Houston or the surrounding area, but my intent is to help all the rest of us who are not in that specific situation.

Anytime you hear about a disaster, hear about a problem, I think it's very helpful to use the

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