Posted On: May 15, 2007, 2:01 pm CDT

Posted By: FL Resident

Anon, I live in NE FL and I agree; you have to ready to pay the insurance that is commensurate with the risk associated with the place where you live. Currently, they're encouraging building in the St. Louis plains. Do they understand that they are subject to flooding if they're levees break? Do they want to pay the true cost to live there? Lott lived on the beach butt didn't want to pay the true cost to insure it for flooding.
I disagree about the Feds not being invited in until too late. The Feds and FEMA were watching the situation and could have taken control at any time. Also, do we wait to be invited to other disasters around the world? No. We see they're in need and we go to their rescue. We get around the world faster than we got to New Orleans. Let's not point to who is to blame or their party affliation because I really don't care. As an independent, I believe everyone is equally responsible - residents, Dems., Reps. Do we need to rebuild? What are the alternatives? With the high unemployment, it seemed to be a place where a lot of folks would have been better off leaving. Too much money has been wasted there already in an all or nothing plan. I hate to be trite but we should be thinking outside of the box for a solution on this one and rebuilding in the same location for lots of folks may not be the right answer.