[texas booster]

So the coastal land in Texas slopes gently from the Gulf of Mexico north and east for a few hundred miles.

Should we ban all construction for land below 50’ above mean sea level? How about residential construction banned, but allow commercial construction? There goes all the lake front and ocean front property in the US.

What would you do with Florida, Maryland or any other city that developed as a maritime city (NYC, Boston, Philadelphia)?

How close to rivers should we be allowed to build?

It is not as easy as many would suggest to ban all new construction, or to not allow rebuilding after a disaster.

And which disasters will be the “banned” disasters?

[Dilbert San Diego]

The liberals would like to make these decisions based on their own hysteria, based on their own subjective criteria.

[grania]

Construction should be banned within the flood plain and areas that absorb rain in storms. Those areas, which are really an extension of the body of water, should go back to their natural state. What's there should stay unless it's destroyed by a coastal storm.

It's not easy. I'm happier with a reality check that doesn't acknowledge global warming but does acknowledge irresponsible building of coastal areas as the reason, globally, there are so many horrific weather tragedies in those areas.