urricane Harvey was a disaster foretold.
Nearly two decades before the storm's historic assault on homes and businesses along the Gulf Coast of Texas this week, the National Wildlife Federation released a groundbreaking report about the United States government’s dysfunctional flood insurance program, demonstrating how it was making catastrophes worse by encouraging Americans to build and rebuild in flood-prone areas. The report, titled “Higher Ground,” crunched federal data to show that just 2 percent of the program’s insured properties were receiving 40 percent of its damage claims. The most egregious example was a home that had flooded 16 times in 18 years, netting its owners more than $800,000 even though it was valued at less than $115,000.
How Washington Made Harvey Worse
And everyone should have seen how the towns on the upper Mississippi and Missouri were just rebuilding in the same damn place. And TODAY you can buy a really nice new home in the Lower Ninth in New Orleans, even though it's been designed to be the first to be flooded since the 1920s.
Cruz bitches about Sandy, but the houses along outer Long Island were put on stilts, and building codes in ala miss and La got stronger ....... but it seems to me we just rebuilt where it flooded. Something like 60% of Americans live near coastal areas, but JFC move inland a little bit.
Crushed by Katrina, Mississippi's Gulf Coast rebuilds and rejoices a decade later
On Mississippi’s Gulf Coast, what was lost and gained from Katrina’s fury
Nearly two decades before the storm's historic assault on homes and businesses along the Gulf Coast of Texas this week, the National Wildlife Federation released a groundbreaking report about the United States government’s dysfunctional flood insurance program, demonstrating how it was making catastrophes worse by encouraging Americans to build and rebuild in flood-prone areas. The report, titled “Higher Ground,” crunched federal data to show that just 2 percent of the program’s insured properties were receiving 40 percent of its damage claims. The most egregious example was a home that had flooded 16 times in 18 years, netting its owners more than $800,000 even though it was valued at less than $115,000.
How Washington Made Harvey Worse
And everyone should have seen how the towns on the upper Mississippi and Missouri were just rebuilding in the same damn place. And TODAY you can buy a really nice new home in the Lower Ninth in New Orleans, even though it's been designed to be the first to be flooded since the 1920s.
Cruz bitches about Sandy, but the houses along outer Long Island were put on stilts, and building codes in ala miss and La got stronger ....... but it seems to me we just rebuilt where it flooded. Something like 60% of Americans live near coastal areas, but JFC move inland a little bit.
Crushed by Katrina, Mississippi's Gulf Coast rebuilds and rejoices a decade later
On Mississippi’s Gulf Coast, what was lost and gained from Katrina’s fury
