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mellincf
How much longer can we afford to bail out cities that build 50 feet above sea level and then put thousands of miles of pavement on top of floodplains? How much money are we going to throw at people who deny climate science and rebuild over and over in hurricane zones? Leaders have either mostly ignored long-term considerations of climate change, as has Texas Governor Greg Abbott, or who, like Florida Governor Rick Scott, have actively suppressed discussion of the concept. That chemical plant which exploded near Houston was the result of Texas politicians taking half a million dollars to fight safety rules of the EPA. Texas won’t use their own disaster relief fund and doesn’t deserve a dime of our money.
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Unfortunately, people will always want to live and work in floodplains. For agriculture the floodplains are the richest soil. Farmers have lived and worked along the Nile in Egypt from time immemorial.
Some of the most beautiful views in the world are alongside of bodies of water. Go almost anywhere and you will find that a piece of property on the water costs more than property of the same size a half-mile away.
If people were daunted by natural disasters, San Francisco would never have been built. Nor New Orleans. Nor would the Florida Keys be occupied after a long series of hurricanes over the decades.
Rebuilding has nothing to do with the nonsensical allegation that these people are "deniers of climate science," a ridiculous phrase in itself.
Your drivel about fighting the EPA causing the chemical plant discharge needs documentation before I would believe it. Are you alleging that the plant did not meet all legal requirements? You have proof?
Where did you get the idea that Texas is not spending their Disaster Relief Fund money? Documentation?
I find it more disturbing that Obama's EPA prevented construction of more oil refining facilities in other states for the past eight years, resulting in severe constriction of the gasoline supply due to one natural disaster.
Yes, the oil supply is ample, but without means to refine it, the cost of gas has gone up.
That must change.
Carl in Tampa
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