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Originally Posted by SCORE-Cash
Andrew destroyed Homestead/Perrine. All new homes were re-built with tougher construction laws.
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The construction laws are only going to help with wind damage.....the problem here last time wasn't the wind, it was that the levies broke. The levies that were built by the federal government, NOT BY THE STATE OR CITY GOVERNMENT HERE.
Unless the construction laws dictate that houses have to be built out of 100% waterproof material, it's not going to help.
I grew up in Florida, I remember hurricane David for crying out loud, so don't tell me how great things are there and shit....if I dig through the archives of the Miami Herald and the Orlando Sentinel I'm sure I can find billions and billions of dollars of wasted taxpayer money. You can find it anywhere.
I now live 60 miles north of New Orleans, and you're in here asking whether or not we should abandon an entire U.S. city because you don't like the way the federal dollars were spent on rebuilding. (FWIW, most of that money that you "think" was spent here hasn't been spent....the "rebuilding" has been painfully slow and most of the federal dollars are still just sitting there, so even if the whole city gets obliterated this time around, very little of your tax money went towards anything that will get obliterated)
The next time there's a hurricane in your area, and FEMA is bringing in bottled water and ice and medical supplies to your neighborhood, should I complain about the money being spent there because you're the one who decided to live so close to the ocean so you should have to fend for yourself?
Gimme a fucking break man.