Would be interested if any Federal money was used in rebuilding after the last one.
There are many portions of California just not meant to have houses. It's a geologically young and seismically active environment with steep slopes, and a fire and flood problem exacerbating that. It's not like there isn't enough room in the country to build where you're either not going to be on a landslide or under one.
Amen. It is like building in a flood plain, 100 feet from the Mississippi. DUMB.