Originally Posted by sortie

There's only one problem with all that.

Land to live on is in short supply. There will always be people in that area wether it's
rebuilt or not. It can be full of squaters, escaped criminals, illegal immigrants all living
in shanty huts as the place becomes completely lawless or it can be rebuilt and managed.


It's like this for some people :

A. live in that crappy house over there and there MIGHT be a disaster

or

B. Keep living in the street without a house and take your chances being murdered in your sleep.

There are way more murders than floods so I would take my chances with the flood.