You also can't discount the (depressingly) massive number of people who believe that climate change is a hoax/conspiracy by… someone (used to be China was the f

You also can't discount the (depressingly) massive number of people who believe that climate change is a hoax/conspiracy by… someone (used to be China was the favorite boogeyman, but not sure who they're blaming now)… to do something or other that would in some fashion hurt the USA. It may very well be that people are buying out there under the assumption that nothing is going to change at all and that all the flooding is either just a fluke, or else won't ever get any worse than it currently is.