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Re:Eleven Straight Days of Tornadoes Have U.S. Approaching ‘... by orev on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @09:27PM (#20036063)
There are more options than “the current bad system” and “shut it down violently”. The FEMA insurance program can be modified so payouts have a lifetime cap, and/or once they reach a certain level, a buyout is required. It would allow people to relocate and over the long term (i.e. a generation or two), the accounting works out.

As a society who has completely failed addressing climate change, having “all of us” help pay for it is not a completely unfair way to address it.

Re:Eleven Straight Days of Tornadoes Have U.S. Approaching ‘... by sjwright on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @09:38PM (#20036117)
Areas with high risk of catastrophic natural disaster should be identified and FEMA insurance should not be given to any new residents or new dwellings in these areas.
Re:Eleven Straight Days of Tornadoes Have U.S. Approaching ‘... by Consultant32452 on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @10:34PM (#20036400)
Once you include tornadoes in the flat places, drought in the farm places, hurricanes on the coast places, and earthquakes in the earthquake places there really not much places left.
Re:Eleven Straight Days of Tornadoes Have U.S. Approaching ‘... by sjwright on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @10:53PM (#20036484)
Government bureaucracy is absolutely the right kind of answer for things like earthquakes and other one-in-a-hundred-years events. But any time a location wouldn't be considered habitable but for the presence of FEMA, Government bureaucracy is the wrong answer.
Re:Eleven Straight Days of Tornadoes Have U.S. Approaching ‘... by krainboltgreene on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @03:53AM (#20037704)
Alright, so who gets to relocate about a dozen major cities?
Re:Eleven Straight Days of Tornadoes Have U.S. Approaching ‘... by gbrown on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @10:13PM (#20036319)
Exactly