This kind of problem isn't just caused by climate change, but also by local/State governments that keep making the same mistakes. If you notice, DeSantis is promising to build back exactly the way things were. But communities get wiped out because they don't raise the building codes enough, and communities that were wiped out grow back as places that no one can walk and that cars burn extra fuel and that don't have enough trees and ground that's not paved over to absorb the rain because to those governments, the most important goal is endless economic development and that development can only look like the same outlet malls with Cracker Barrel and Sam's at every highway intersection. And they artificially add extra highway intersections to get more of it. And they don't care about the blight in the existing towns where small businesses close and no one has jobs and there's no grocery stores because everything is at the highway intersections.

I watched it happen after Katrina, and that's actually why I moved to California. It killed me to watch the people of the Mississippi Gulf coast shooting their children in the foot.