Excellent correction.

You mean the humanoids in governments make...I have Never observed a Conscious Human making a mess of things...unless of course, the work is in progress.

Either that or she's just trying to clean up the messes we seem to make ;)

Mother nature can sure be a slob when she wants to.

Thanks, and they are. My brother and family was in the western part of Houston and just saw a lot of rain. My sister and family were located on a slight hill, so they were an island in the storm - they could barely leave their house for three days. Now there's just a ton of cleanup to be done.

I think that a lot would change if not for the Federal Flood Insurance program... Take that away and either people would build with hurricanes in mind or move!

It seems to me that there are places where people
should just not attempt to live. If they are that sub-
ject to natural disaster, why build cities there in the
first place.?

It's a more plausible explanation than the nonsense they keep coming up with!

Maybe climate change was coming from the prior administration's interest in "fixing" things, rather than its typical general drain on everything, focusing the giant damping field on the US.

Oooooh, shiny. How much can I give you to put my name on it? [/sarcasm]

I love the assumption that if it didn't work, the government wasn't involved enough.

Yeah...if you follow that thinking I have a bridge to sell you...

Lol. That one made this whole post!

Absolutely right

In the pioneer days with many moving west, always they would seek out places chosen because there was water for all and feed for the travel-group and their horses.
Nothing in that proved to be good reason to chose floodplains in which to live, and nothing today justifies subsidized flood insurance.

I live in las vegas where it gets quite hot (115 degrees and more) during about three months, and if there was some sort of disaster which destroyed electric power, many people would die. There is very little underground building (basements) where people could stay reasonably cool. I can just hear the leftists trying to save the people here who didnt think for themselves but just assumed that civilization will protect them from the naturally occurring heat.

Maybe the government should change the plumbing codes to require each plot of land have containment walls around it and the ability to boil off or get rid of 50 inches of rain that falls within those walls in some other way. If only THAT had been in place, nothing would have been underwater. Of course, who would have built there in the first place, but thats an unintended consequence....

I dont want to contribute to bailing out the people in Houston who didnt take proper precauctions or who relied on the government bailouts.

The leftist mentality is to do whatever you want, and the government (meaning the other people) will bail you out if something goes wrong. THAT is what caused the destruction in Houston.

Those a cool observations to be sure. GEt rid of government subsidized flood insurance and it might convince people NOT to build in areas subject to such disasters. There are a lot of other areas on higher ground.

I agree get rid of subsidized insurance. If you live next to a river, expect that it will overflow its banks occasionally. Insurance companies should obviously charge more for a house next to a river or in a low lying area

Leftists ALWAYS have hidden agendas, and one should not listen to what they say and take it at face value.

Big government almost always CANT do good things because of the way political decisions are made. Its rather simple actually.

I live just south of Houston in Pearland. I commented before that our planned community of 20,000 had only 12-13 homes flooded. That is due to good engineering for flood control. Yes, the streets were rivers, but that is part of the plan. Now, the point. The topology of Houston says "flood me." It was, as mentioned, a swamp. It does not matter whether there are zero or a million zoning, etc., regulation. Houston, with 50+ inches of rain, is going to flood. (What city wouldn't?) The only way not to have floods in Houston is to not have Houston.

Now THAT'S funny...something like gasoline on a fire???

Good article for terrible Economics...and no, not funny, except perhaps as black humour. (Which I suppose is racist to say now.)

Here's an excellent antidote from FEE with example after example of how much the free market is helping Houston...

https://fee.org/articles/the-private-...