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I haven't been in some places (such as Florida), but I have been in Louisiana. In Baton Rouge, for example, there's minor flooding after even 0.5 inches of rain. I can't imagine how many homes and other buildings would be flood damaged after a hurricane came through (and that's not even considering wind damage).

I visited the 9th Ward in New Orleans (I was a Thanksgiving guest of someone who lived there) and saw the massive concrete wall that holds back Lake Pontchartrain and the majority of homes that were not elevated above the likely flood level and thought "another Hurricane Katrina type event is inevitable here unless someone pays to elevate the homes or to buy everyone out and make this a wetland area".

So hearing about the grants, I'm glad someone was doing something (albeit it was just a trickle compared to the amount that is needed). And now? Some idiot just consigned hundreds or thousands of people to death and thousands more to life-changing devastation.