Somehow I’m having trouble feeling sorry for folks who had homes on the beach and failed to take basic precautions.
These folks are insisting taxpayers pay for their lack of flood insurance. The politicians are also loading this bill chock full of pork.
Sorry, I bought a home built to withstand everything up to a Cat 3. I maintain my property to protect it from storm damage.
Those that had federal flood insurance should have been paid at least a month ago but congress hasn't passed a law to pay those claims and that is the responsibility of the government since it is the federal government who issues these flood insurance policies and people pay those premiums every month.
Yes, it is foolish to build your house on sand anywhere near water - the Bible says build your house on rock, not sand.
It is a truism that water will go anywhere it can - it's just waiting for an opening/a hole, of any size. We have to have water to live but that water in mass can destroy everything we have and kill us, too. I have respect for the power of water.