[MRM]

Why does someone have to be to blame? A storm stalled in an almost unheard of way because of the prevailing winds and air pressures and ended up dropping in one place all the rain that should have covered sever states. It is the most rain ever dropped in one event in North America in the entire recorded history of mankind, mostly because of the fluke of not having enough air pressure to move it along. You think people shouldn't built along the entire coast of Texas, Alabama, Mississippi and Florida forever on the off chance that an unprecedented storm might happen by and lay waste to a relatively small area within the entire gulf (Atlantic) (Pacific) coast? Or maybe humans should be allowed to build near the coastline and build the inevitable cost of rebuilding part of the coastline into the price of human development.

The cost of rebuilding is dwarfed by the cost that would be incurred by never building any flood zone on the Gulf (Atlantic) (Pacific) coasts.