Posted On: August 8, 2006, 3:40 pm CDT

Posted By: Stupid

All this stuff aside, we all know you can't tame Mother Nature. All you can do is prepare and run if necessary. I really think all this money would be better spent on building homes to withstand the weather, better evacuation plans and better response when disaster hits. I don't care where ever you live there will always be something, fires, earthquakes, mud slides, record heat, record cold, hail, tornatos(spelled right??). Where you gonna go, where you gonna hide. I do believe that all of these people living on sand bars, once the home is destroyed they should be paid the value and told that there will be no coverage if they build in the same place. Make them move off of those sand bars. There were never meant to be built on and I for one do not want to keep subsidizing these people because they are too stupid to move. But then again, are they stupid or are we stupid to keep paying them. The nation has to wake up and start taking care of their own and stop squandering money on stupid ideas. Do what they know will work.