People shouldnt be living on the east coast where hurricanes can get them.

[Eko]

Except for those in the shipping industry, we need to have that or all of our goods would cost way more because they would mostly have to be shipped from the west coast. And for their family's, cant expect people to live without their families, and then we need stores for them and their families, so people to work in those stores, and schools, and governments and sanitation workers and teachers and construction people and police and fire department and hospitals and,,,,,
of course this is

Eko.

[snowybirdie]

1. Thought Democrats

believed in choice. Tired of seeing folks here decide what's best for me. Love your post!

[brooklynite]

7. C'mon: "I hate X and so should you" posts are a standard around here.

[hlthe2b]

2. With climate change, nearly anywhere can become a risk for wildfire or grassfires. And even more for

tornados and earthquakes. So while I cannot defend building (or re-building) in areas that are known at high risk for erosion and flooding--nor on barrier islands, I certainly can't point the finger at those in coastal areas.

[Silent3]

3. Risk/no-risk binary thinking doesn't help here

Risk comes in degrees. When people decide where to live and develop housing, the degree of risk (not the absurd binary choice of risk/no risk) associated with a particular location should definitely be taken into account.

If an area is predictably risky, people who choose to live there, at the very least, should be expected to pay an insurance premium to live there. That's the whole idea behind mandatory flood insurance.

Those developments in Florida where everyone had a canal in their backyard... those were absurdly risky and probably never should have been built.

[Phoenix61]

4. You're right, they shouldn't have been.

I live in Florida but there’s not a snowball’s chance in hell I’d live on a barrier island. Once upon a time the only structures on them were little vacation cottages filled with hand me down furniture.
Fingers crossed FEMA pays them out then refuses to insure any structures in those places.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

5. People like to feel like their own decisions are what have kept them safe, and telling others what

they should or shouldn't do gives them that feeling, whether it's where to live, how to eat, what they should do with their vocations, how to be in relationship with others -- all of it.

[brooklynite]

6. Well, I'm in Brooklyn HEIGHTS so I'm good.

[enid602]

8. Stilts

Just make insurance available for all re builds and new builds built on stilts.

[Stuart G]

9. The original post is ..."Not Nice"

[Chainfire]

10. Mars may be the only safe place to run away to.