Yep...Hurricane Audrey in the '50s wiped Cameron, LA out, killing over 600 in the storm surge. But they built right back on the beach. Now we are supposed to be shocked that the storm took everything back out to sea again. Whatever is built back will wind up the same way...maybe in 2 years, 10 years or 50 years, but it will be flattened.
No more building on the beach or even where a storm surge could get them. Insurance companies won't insure for flood damage either at all or the premiums are out of sight. Then when something like this happens to enough people, their elected representatives make sure that the more prudent among us get stuck with the bill through our taxes, higher insurance premiums or both.
The grasshopper and the ant plays out continually in a "democracy".