Is rebuilding at the cost of hundreds of billions of dollars per year a reasonable solution? Eff no!

FEMA just helps enable millions of people to continue to live in areas that are getting hammered by more frequent and more costly natural disasters.

Adapt, or die. Or, just move inland. There's plenty of space in the Prairies and Intermountain West, if you can find water.

Yes, hundreds of billions of dollars per year. I meant total costs, not just what FEMA pays. Or did you forget we're only three weeks into 2025.

The cost [of natural disasters in 2024] was approximately $182.7 billion.

This total places 2024 as the fourth-costliest on record, trailing 2017 ($395.9 billion), 2005 ($268.5 billion) and 2022 ($183.6 billion). Adding the 27 events of 2024 to the record that begins in 1980, the U.S. has sustained 403 weather and climate disasters for which the individual damage costs reached or exceeded $1 billion. The cumulative cost for these 403 events exceeds $2.915 trillion.

You need millions of people to run oil refineries?

And all of those people need to live in disaster prone areas?

You're exaggerating.

Critical infrastructure for extraction and refining of oil more likely requires workers in the hundreds of thousands, not millions. And that's nation wide.

But fine, let's give you a couple million, spread out across the disaster prone areas. The cost of rebuilding after disasters would be negligible compared to what it costs as it is now when 10s of millions are affected.

Oil products can be transported inland, again at a fraction of the cost compared to rebuilding after 10s of millions are affected.

Anyway, are you arguing for handing the Federal teat over to people who

choose

Not very MAGA! More socialist...

And, which common sense should tell you, I am not talking about shutting the entire coast down and kicking everybody out. But the high-density stuff has to go, or the people living there can eat ----- and I shouldn't have to pay for it. That's the American way.