Hurricane Harvey

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And I didn't suggest relocating anyone.... just stop building new stuff there... let the old buildings decay and the people leave of their own accord.
I'm pretty sure not all the Midwest and southern seaboards get flooded every 5 years or so...

point is : if you let buildings and infrastructure crumble to the point where people move... They still need to move somewhere. So do the hurricane prone people move to tornado alley? Do the tornado alley people move to an earthquake zone? Do the earthquake people move to the hurricane coasts?

It can't be that bad... How often have you personally had to rebuild your home?
Or how many people do you know that have had to do that?

Everywhere you go has some natural disaster to weather phenomenon to contend with.

That's where frequency of said natural disasters enters the picture.
if you get your home destroyed every 300 years, it's a legit gamble.... if it's every 5 years, why even rebuild there?

The answer isn't get everyone to move it's let the people willing to put up with it stay and the people who want to get outta dodge leave to somewhere where they're willing to put up with the weather.

That ends up not being what happens.
Areas marked as prone to being hit are devalued and become places where poorer people live. Which then become poorer still when they have to rebuild their homes every once in a while.
It's not what people want... it's what they can afford.

And in the meantime, maybe consider changing building codes to respond to increasing weather phenomena in certain areas.

Building codes usually require some catastrophe to be considered for change... but it's better late than never, I guess.