Blaming The Wrong Entity

Steve Jackson has posted about losing his house to the flood in Austin, TX.

It seems that a lack of federal money kept people from moving out of the flood plain, so they got flooded.

I am willing to bet that there's an 1843 survey map of the area showing the entire area that's underwater as a flood plain and that there weren't any residences there for a long, long time.

It's like the people who could read those maps understood what the dangers were and didn't build anything they wanted to keep there.

Time and again I've read about a flood like this to find that the affected area was marked as a flood hazard on a 150 year old survey.

It's not the government's fault for not buying you out.  It's YOUR fault for buying a house there without checking the damn map!  Especially if you didn't have flood insurance.  Don't even whine that flood insurance in a flood plain is too expensive, Bitch, I live in a hurricane corridor and I pay for hurricane AND flood insurance.