The Federal Emergency Management Agency proposed regulations Monday that would require companies and homeowners using federal funds on construction projects in flood-prone areas to build on higher ground—2 feet higher, in many cases.
The regulations stem from an executive order signed by PresidentBarack Obama in January 2015. The order requires a new flood-protection standard for infrastructure projects that use federal money and is part of the administration’s broader agenda to addressclimate change.
“This is ensuring that when federal investments are made we will rebuild higher and stronger,” Roy Wright, deputy associate administrator for insurance and mitigation with FEMA, said from Baton Rouge, La., where he was helping oversee the agency’s response to recent historic flooding that has killed 13 and displaced thousands.
Mr. Wright called the regulations the most significant flood-protection action a president has taken since Jimmy Carter.
How stupid a world, where FEMA mandates building at least 2 feet above the 100 year flood line, and people start howling, despite recent massive floods in Texas and Louisiana, not to mention Katrina and Sandy.
GOP clowns who deplore big government – which is who has to pay the insurance for these flooded homes and businesses – are yelling about regulations and government overreach. Idiots.
from Stowe Boyd http://www.stoweboyd.com/post/149369679687
