Why were all the RV's left in the flood?
I understand that sometimes you can't move an RV when the water is coming up but it looks like there's a lot of RV's that were just left to flood. I mine were there I'd have moved it up the road and o...
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There is a certain amount of "existing" situations that have to be dealt with but the idea that they are "too poor to not live in a flood zone but let's rebuild in the flood zone" reminds me of the old joke about doing it twice rather than doing it right.
Building in flood zones should be strongly discouraged and removed when ever possible. This is typically a problem where state and federal govt enable local govt to do the wrong thing. New Orleans govt wanted those neighborhoods rebuilt because that translated into money. Open lots and farm land don't generate much property tax and if people move to other cities, they don't qualify for grants focused on large cities, smaller cities don't have as much political clout, so the city fights to rebuild and the state and federal govt who should be looking big picture gives in because they don't want to appear cold hearted.
Building in flood zones should be strongly discouraged and removed when ever possible. This is typically a problem where state and federal govt enable local govt to do the wrong thing. New Orleans govt wanted those neighborhoods rebuilt because that translated into money. Open lots and farm land don't generate much property tax and if people move to other cities, they don't qualify for grants focused on large cities, smaller cities don't have as much political clout, so the city fights to rebuild and the state and federal govt who should be looking big picture gives in because they don't want to appear cold hearted.
