L. A. firefighters: Toxic? Burning Teslas delay firefighters

Hopefully NOT.

What's happening in Nawluns is that people are selling out and moving.
The people that are left pay 2-3x the national average for catastrophic home insurance - which is sort of why Allstate's "blame the victim" message went over so well.
Also and famously home policies do not cover flooding.....or earthquakes for that matter.
You need a 'government underwritten' (meaning taxpayer funded) policy for stuff like that.
It's a national, limited coverage policy that forces mortgage lenders to build stuff that looks like the beauty below because dot.gov gets to guess what is "in or out" of a "flood zone."


It's not just NOLA, but there are lots and lots of places that require new houses to carry flood insurance because as we found out in North Carolina a few months ago cities tend to crop up where there is access to water and arable land - meaning: It's flooded there BEFORE.

 

is this wrong, or does the metro area not represent all of new orleans?

population

 

You'll have to ask a native.
I haven't been there in years.
There's fewer people living in Nawluns now than there were 100 years ago - but it's "probably" not all because of the hurricanes - because I suspect that much of the rest of the Gulf Coast is still growing - albeit much differently now that banks and insurance companies do not happily lend money for people to build single family detached dwellings close to the water.
That's one of several reasons I no longer live there - although it did not take a hull-loss accident for me to leave.

When I lived ON the coast years ago I was introduced to flood insurance, high home owner's insurance, high taxes, too much traffic, etc..etc....
I still live close enough to have to do storm prep, but I do not have to worry about flood insurance.

Even the US government isn't stupid enough to keep buying the same people new houses every 20 years or so - and besides......the coverage is getting more expensive and less 'covery.'

 

i'm glad to hear it. i went through that on cape cod. hopefully, the same will happen in cali, but i doubt it, with the demand for housing.

 

My solar contractor is in New Orleans. So I sent them a note Saturday that they need to take care of themselves as my solar project can wait. Their safety and security comes first. They originally were hinting about a Monday, January 27, installation. Whenever they can, as they don't get the next check until they've scheduled the installation.

Bob Wilson