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Originally posted by dd74
As opposed to the poor fools who live in trailers along Tornado Alley who eventually also receive "national disaster" relief we taxpayers pay for?
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That is different, though. Owning a house in Tornado Alley does not guarantee you will be hit by a Tornado. I've lived in Tornado Alley for around 22 years, I've had some close calls, but never an actual hit.
Putting a house on an unstable sandy cliff, that experts have said will end up in a landslide, isn't a gamble, it's an absolute.
Something else to consider. National Disaster relief really doesn't help the people. It helps the town/city/providence. Wichita was declared a national disaster last December over a nasty ice storm we had. Over 300,000 people were without power for a week and more. Businesses were shut down, and we even had some deaths. The disaster relief fund didn't go into any of the Tax Payers hands, instead it was distributed to the city so that the city could use it to clean up tree limbs, and pay overtime for all the workers re-establishing power to the city and communities.
As far as I'm concerned... The city should of had the means of taking care of this themselves. It wasn't the city, or any of the city buildings that were damaged in the storm, it was the Taxpayers that took all the damage.