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Re:Venice Battles Flooding Amid Highest Tide in 50 Years by scarejunba on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @01:54PM (#21527910)
You don’t have to worry. The government will bail you out like they do the people who build in forest fire land and in flood plains.

EDIT: I don't think I'm wrong actually. Take Pacifica, CA for instance. Local homeowners oppose managed retreat and will ask the government to perform coastline erosion control.

Re:Venice Battles Flooding Amid Highest Tide in 50 Years by 0xffff2 on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @04:50PM (#21529991)
And yet, elsewhere someone posted a link to an article about how three large apartment buildings have already been torn down in Pacifica. The ocean doesn't care much about city policy. Eventually it's going to be untenable to resist no matter how wealthy you are.
Re:Venice Battles Flooding Amid Highest Tide in 50 Years by scarejunba on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @04:52PM (#21530012)
Oh, and we didn't pay them off via some national insurance program? I'm surprised and somewhat impressed. I'd expect those parties to have required the government to pay out.