• @beezzeeb
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    1015 hours ago

    if it is, i would like that to be corrected for areas that continue to be disaster zones. i would rather pay to help some people move once than rebuild 3 or 4 times each over their lifetimes.

    • @[email protected]
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      514 hours ago

      The FEMA flood insurance has some requirements about flood prevention activities to continue being eligible. This is just regular old private insurance though, so it’s not the general public paying the price. At some point government might step in to backstop or subsidize it though.

      • @[email protected]
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        311 hours ago

        And yet…

        https://e360.yale.edu/digest/thousands_of_us_homes_keep_flooding_and_being_rebuilt_fema_insurance_louisiana

        More than 2,100 properties across the U.S. enrolled in the National Flood Insurance Program have flooded and been rebuilt more than 10 times since 1978, according to a new analysis of insurance data by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). One home in Batchelor, Louisiana has flooded 40 times over the past four decades, receiving $428,379 in insurance payments. More than 30,000 properties in the program, run by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, have flooded multiple times over the years.

      • @beezzeeb
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        314 hours ago

        Ah, seems reasonable. Yeah, even paying for rebuilding with better materials and methods for the disasters might be even cheaper than moving large groups of existing people. But, please stop building stick and paper houses in these places lol