Re: OT: followup on New Orleans - disgraceful


"Joerg" <notthisjoergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hello Winfield,
>
> >>All persons moving back into the affected area should be required to
sign
> >>a release form stating that they know the area is potentially dangerous
and
> >>relinquishing any and all rights to request Federal assistance in any
form.
> >
> > You're proposing to extend that hard-line position to the entire
> > coastline from say North Carolina to the Mexican border, I assume?
>
> Jim has a point. It does not make sense to rebuild when you know that
> the same thing could (or rather, will) happen again. When most of the
> houses too close to the water flooded down the American river out here I
> could not believe my eyes when residents elected to rebuild at the very
> same spot. I hope that at least the insurance companies socked them
> since I do not wish to pay for the foolish decisions of other. It is
> time that people take responsibility for their own decisions.

I recently bought a new house in the floodplain of what is now a managed
drainage channel (rock rubble sides, grass-grwoing fabric in the bottom).
The plain has not flooded since white men settled here and dug the original
drainage ditch. In order to get the loan, I had to buy three years of flood
insurance.


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