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Originally Posted by Reiver
....This isn't rocket science and I've seen the homes on the outer banks destroyed/rebuilt/destroyed/rebuilt with Govt. funded insurance...that is wrong...and the majority are not full time residences but vacation homes...
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The thousands of homes you see being flooded are not vacation homes on the outer banks, most are the homes of hard-working Americans, many thousands of whom work in the petro-chemical industries. Somewhere between 25 and 30% of the total petrochemical industries in the US are located between Corpus and Beaumont/Port Arthur. Let's tell all those people no flood insurance is available and no help will be offered in your house is destroyed. Yes, there are people who take advantage of these programs and and changes need to be made to stop the abuses but the vast majority of the people whose lives are being destroyed are not in that category.
They just need help and only the govt. has the capability to help. If we go the way this thread leans.... welcome to Haiti...