[tx4guns]

It happens in Texas, too. Beachfront houses are blown/washed away, and YOUR insurance premiums and property taxes (for Texans) help pay for these people to rebuild their homes and the beach. FEMA helps, too in a bad storm. In other words, they buy a house from $250k - multi million $$$, a hurricane washes it away, and we pay to rebuild it. Some areas are not insurable, and I believe the whole beachfront should be that way. It's not a matter of IF, but WHEN the big one comes!

[af_vet_rr]

It happens in Texas, too. Beachfront houses are blown/washed away, and YOUR insurance premiums and property taxes (for Texans) help pay for these people to rebuild their homes and the beach. FEMA helps, too in a bad storm. In other words, they buy a house from $250k - multi million $$$, a hurricane washes it away, and we pay to rebuild it.

Sounds like a certain river in the middle of the continent that people keep rebuilding on over and over, no matter the fact that they are living in flood plains.

I believe Texas waterways belong to Texans, but I do see more and more entities, both city/county, and private, trying to restrict access.

[Redbob]

" Some areas are not insurable, and I believe the whole beachfront should be that way. "

This of course is the answer to keeping beaches open - there should certainly be no state- or federally-subsidized insurance for ANY property owners. Remember what Padre Island looked like before the State guaranteed the property insurance there?