John If you read what I posted carefully you will see I stated that people harmed/damaged by unusual weather events should be helped. Your 30 inches of rain in a day and half is an unusual event. It also is more of a state wide event. This will require national help to keep the entire area from longer term economic harm.
What really brought about my post was actually some local flooding. We had 8-10 inches of rain fall in one night in the Decorah, Iowa area earlier this week. This was on top of several earlier 2-3 inch rains that kept the water table high. So it took little more rain to flood the Turkey river. The Turkey river has flooded hard 3 times in the last 15 years. I know personally of four homes that were flooded for the third time this week. The oldest of these homes is 20 years old. These homes were built right in a flood prone valley along the Turkey river. A family member rented this ground for years to farm. He would get flooded out one year out of five on average. They built homes on that same ground. There should never been homes built there to start with.
As for LA. I was down close to there right after Katrina and helped clean up around the city of " Bay of St. Louis" MS. The bridge that Rt. 90 goes across the bay was wiped out. The beach front houses were totally gone. I will have to find the pictures. It is hard to imagine the damage and the scope of the total destruction. The thing that struck me is I was uncomfortable being in that area. I just knew it would not be a safe place to be during even a mild hurricane. So why in the world did people just ignore the dangers and build there???? I KNOW "It is PRETTY" , the "VIEW" is to die for. Well a lot of people did die for their view.
So John I bet that you personally know of many fancy/high priced homes that are build in totally dangerous places, around you,just because the view is great. Those are the ones I am talking about. I bet that the Duke's of Hazard guys home is not a shack but he built it in a place that floods without just a 30 inch rain even. I do not believe you have had two of those this year???
I feel for the small owner/operator businesses in that areas. Many of them may not survive. This could be hardware store, appliance store and or a farmer. I have zero issue with private help. I think we started a lot of this with the Federal government started handing out disaster moneys. Now many feel that they should get help form the government regardless of what they have done to help cause their harm. This also hurts the private charities many feel they are paying enough taxes so the Government can handle the problems.
I am all for getting rid of all government involvement with farmers. Make crop insurance be privately funded just like most other insurance. Then the risk verses return would drive plantings and other stuff. In other words private enterprise would determine what and were things happen.
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