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Excuse me. I do not see how a few houses in WI can compare with the level of devistation that occured in Katrina. From what I saw besides New Orleans the houses were distroyed from LA to Daulphin AL, nearly 100 miles. Nearly all houses were completely removed with in a mile of the beach. This includes the major cities of Gulfport, Biloxi and Pascagoula. Damage varied all the way to Starkville MS, some 265 miles inland.
We had a tornado travel through here a few years back. People could go and stay with friends and family. Where do you go when the whole area is damaged or distroyed? What do you do when you have to travel 100 or 300 miles to try and find a place to stay. How do you rebuild when you are 100 miles from home?
To put it into prospective. The damage from Andrew was 1/2 what Katrina did. Hugo was 1/7. Your local tornado? 1/10000?
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I am not disagreeing that it would nice if the smaller disasters had some help. I likely understand this better than most. The house on the hill you mention was built after the other house was struck by lightning and burned to the ground. Yes I had insurance. The best I could find and I still ended up building it myself and loosing vast somes of money. The idea that insurance will make it all better is do do! For your information that was the second house we lost to fire. I had to rebuild that one too so I think I know more than most.
I also have seen some of the people displaced and only a small rotten percentage get the media attention. I garantee that if I spread a wide net around your neighborhoods I would end up with a few bad actors. I know I would here.
I agree it is stupid to allow people to build along the shifting sandy shores. Where I grew up you did not own any of the beach and had to build a long way back from the highest water mark. All below was public lands. They should rethink the building along the shore, especially with global warming, but I doubt they will.
New Orleans in sinking. Part of the reason is the Army Corps of Engineers and the channeling of the Mississippi for river traffic. The soil to build up the delta is now being flushed out into the Gulf.
Poor planning? I don't think much is thought through in this country, just wait until it all blows up in your face and then try to patch it back together.
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