Maybe 'cause homeowners (like me) are supposed to take care of things like this with their own insurance and NOT suck it out of the taxpayers?
Where in the Constitution does it say the Federales must help people who build their homes on coastal sites below sea level, rebuild said homes when Mother Nature catches up to 'em?
You ought to hear some of the excuses that insurance companies are using to wriggle out of paying. I wish my local paper had the letters to the editor online. People here in Calcasieu Parish are being told their damage from Hurricane Rita is from earth movement IOW, an earthquake.
Don't count on insurance to pay when they have two catastropic events less than a month apart in which one is the costliest in the history of the US. People who have paid years and years are getting shafted left and right.