kpmac wrote:
Actually, Chief, most of them did not return after the last hurricane. Cajuns are resilient, but there is nothing left down there to bring them back. It's no different than living in tornado alley or in an earthquake zone or in a place that is snowed in for most of the year. One learns to adapt. Thanks for looking and for commenting. PS, they got very little assistance from FEMA or any other agency as was the case with us a little farther north.
Understood, Ken. But there are a lot of people who get bailed out by FEMA time after time, year after year to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars of tax payer money all over the country when just a little common sense would go a long way. I would love to live ON the beach somewhere. But I would live a ways back from the beach with retaining walls, etcetera and/or be willing to pay for the high priced insurance so as not to burden federal or local agencies with the expense of known consequences of my choices.
In fifteen years living in the Pacific Northwest, I have heard people bragging about getting a new house through FEMA every six or eight years because they thought they had the right to live in flood zones along the many rivers that were known to flood on a regular basis. My money and your money subsidizes their living choices.