Totally Agree. The government should insist on buying the property and turning it back into orange groves with a 200 year "no build" clause in the deed, if they pay out on it. People who take care of themselves, or private insurance. No problem.
What I would like to know is why they allow mobile homes in hurricane areas. I know they now require 'tie downs' for them, but that just keeps them in the same spot as they are torn apart by the wind.
My father's house is on an outer island and is made of steel and concrete, and the windows are so thick and heavy I could barely move them. Those are the building codes on his island. They will save lives, property and money.
Bingo.
As a resident of New Orleans for all of my life, I agree with you. We keep hearing how DOOMED we are, yet local government still collects for the levee board, wants to build a multi billion dollar stadium, approves new housing
( slab type yet!) in swampland, and wonders WHY they can't attract business here!
Florida is a peninsula. Flat, water on three sides, and is exposed to hurricanes full power every time. This is NOT new!
WHY would they build kit housing again? WHY would they allow ANY trailer parks in the future? Trailers are unsafe in lesser winds than Bonnie had. If it had been a minimal hurricane or T.S. with 100 mph winds, trailers would have STILL been destroyed. ANY community looking at the open Gulf will be slammed the worst. Inland is never as bad.
Was Orlando destroyed? Why not?
Where it is and how it's built.
Trailers should be banned in Florida, and in ALL communities facing the Gulf/Atlantic. And anyone CHOOSING to stay in such an exposed area has no business being surprised when they get wiped out.
Hurricanes have been the same since we started recording them. It just seems that people have gotten more stupid.