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It's unconscionable that EVERY stinking year, hurricanes come, and FEAM or no FEMA, the recovery usually ends up looking like Amateur Hour.
The volunteers work their asses off,down in the "trenches", but the higher-ups seem to get very little right..
There simply has to be some real attention...serious attention to how to develop/re-develop the coastal zones. The price to "fix it" only goes up, and there are people in Florida who still have damage from LAST YEAR'S storms, and got more damage this year.
These are not "surprise" storms like tornadoes..They are predictable, and the experts know exactly where the vulnerable places are..
Starting with North Carolina, and ranging all through the gulf to the end of Texas is and always has been a danger zone for half a year..every year..
Whether it's beefing up levees, breahwaters, jetties..whatever or restricting growth in prone areas, or salvaging wetlands and barrier islands that were meant to be a buffer zone.. something has to be done..
Here in CA, they passed strict laws regarding building ..to prepare for quakes.. They can and will still happen, but at least the state is addressing it.
All we see in the storm coast states is more growth, and higher and higher concentrations of people in vulnerable places..
Just this morning I heard that 2 more insurers were pulling out of Florida...
I know that the "bosses" in some of these areas do not believe in Global warming, but scientists..real scientists need to be included in the commission...
Perhaps there could be a pool created to hold funds for the storms in the affected states, so they would not have to try to patch together a crazy quilt of local/state/federal intervention.. the way it is now, only gives cover to each group.. they all blame each other, or like Jeb, issue a sarcastic "Blame Me..but don't criticise me" edict..
Thirsty/hungry people don't really are about who's to blame.. They want food water shelter...not photo-ops and excuses.
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