It doesn’t happen inland. That’s the point.
Folks shouldn’t live in low areas that are prone to hurricanes.
The problem with this idea is that civilization throughout history has always sprouted and grown along coasts and rivers. It is the way things are and have been since the dawn of time. There is no place on earth that is really safe from the weather. In CA you get earthquakes, (also in NY, though most aren't aware of that). On the coasts, you get hurricanes. Along the mississippi river, you get periodic flooding. We have to watch out for Tornadoes here in DFW. You get wildfires all across the west. There really isn't a safe place on the planet, because the planet was not designed to be 'safe'. We've always had to scratch out an existence in the face of drought, flood, and whatever else it dishes out to us.
Houston is a major shipping point for both goods and energy. Should we shut all that down because it's not 'safe'?
What is needed is rational pricing for insurance. I know folks who have lived in Houston for decades, and this is the first time they've been flooded. That is why you buy insurance. If you don't bother to protect yourself, I don't have much sympathy for you, but there are plenty of responsible folk out there who do. If you're willing to take the risk and pay the cost, more power to you. Unlike New Orleans, most of Houston is not below sea level. Sure you have flooding when you get a good rain, but unless you are stupid as to your location, it's all out there in the streets, waiting to drain out into the Gulf, as planned. Most areas of Houston are designed to flood to a limited degree to facilitate drainage over what is essentially a really flat surface to the gulf.
For myself, I moved away from the coast because I really can't say that I care for the combination of heat/humidity. I also don't particularly care for hurricanes, but what we're looking at here is essentially what folks are saying is a 500-year event, which is not something that can be efficiently planned for.
I don’t think that’s the answer... there’s a nice example out on the 205 near Tracy, house built on ~20 foot high berm...
Arguments to get people out of flood plains only serve government and environmental orgs purposes. If you cap payouts, or don’t insure, or only allow it once or twice it’ll work out fine.
“It doesn’t happen inland. That’s the point.
Folks shouldn’t live in low areas that are prone to hurricanes.”
So... in -your world-, we should vacate New York, Florida, Louisiana Mississippi, the Carolinas, and Texas? And even more comically, you claim floods never happen in Missouri, Iowa, the Dakotas, Minnesota, Ohio, etc. “Doesn’t happen inland”...LOL
I want some of the dope you’re smoking.
>> Folks shouldn’t live in low areas that are prone to hurricanes. <<
Until fairly recently, MOST people in America lived near a coast. Inland cities like Dallas and Phoenix are novelties.