FOX knows where to identify with (New York) when looking for money.
What this boils down to by FOX is SPECIAL TREATMENT for their advocacy audience. Now, that FOX found "a reason" for advocacy they can make it an election issue. Instead, Democrats should be talking about the cost of the Climate Crisis and how it has created MORE wetlands areas than ever before. They should be talking about how this is a crisis and it cannot be ignored and the people now living in wetlands are facing trouble maintaining the equity of their homes.
Get for real. If FOX can use a dreamscape of advocacy to MAKE THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT spend more monies than it normally would; then the people crying out for help need to deal with REALITY and not denial of the real crisis this country is facing.
All the Americans bemoaning their losses because of Florence also rebuilt homes in newly determined wetlands (that were originally drained of being wetlands) since these major storms. It should be a crime to rebuild in wetlands, newly created or otherwise. Draining wetlands and placing retention ponds to capture the water away from the newly constructed homes should be a crime. It is a deception to the homeowner when they do not know their home was built on newly drained wetlands.
The chronic cry for help is being repeated over and over, year after year and it is because housing developers don't care about the people that purchase their homes, they care about the paperwork that will settle the monies they will receive with mortgages. THAT is why there is no paperwork to fully disclose THE FACT the land was once home to frogs and lizards and lots of bugs before their house was erected.
September 16, 2018
By Ken Sweet and Meghan Hoyer
New York - The number of Americans (click here) with flood insurance is on the rise, yet Hurricane Florence is likely to make it painfully clear that too many homeowners in the Carolinas and other vulnerable regions remain unprotected.
Florence came ashore in the Carolinas Friday and its storm surges, flash floods and winds scattered destruction widely.
Federal data show there were roughly 5.1 million active flood insurance policies in the U.S. as of July 31, up from 4.94 million a year earlier....
