The real question here is why continue the insane path of federal subsidies, tax breaks, low interest loans, grants, and government flood insurance shifting the problem from private investors to public taxpayers while ignoring the most inherent risks to life and property in order for the wealthy to rebuild on or near barrier islands and coastal flood plains with the assurances that these 3 million dollars in property investments will always be covered by their government.The insanity is mind blowing that our government is pushing the wealthy to build million dollar homes right on the waters edge with the guarantee the government will bail or buy them out in the case of a natural disaster.
Not only is this a problem it's depleting the resources for those who truly need the funds and have not built in flood prone areas but for which climate change and global warming along with the altering humanity consequences results in a different more disturbing set of results.
Attention is given to areas that are below sea level, those losing sand from beach erosion so quickly they must truck it in from other countries especially in Florida, the epic storms that are literally ripping sea towns off the map in Long Island NJ and surrounding locations.
We cannot continue to rebuild in these locations unless we use smart intelligent new ideas to solve the problem rather than band aids to throw money out the window.
This brings to mind a recent idea in using stormwater management as offered by Henk Ovink from the Netherlands and his story with CBS can be found here: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/storm-wa...
One thing is for sure mother nature is mad as hell and we must address the issue head on or face disasterous consequences for our future and that of our children's futures
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