> No sane person builds in the 100-year floodplain! Doesn’t that describe most of Florida and the Gulf Coast? In practice many, many people are willing to buil

> No sane person builds in the 100-year floodplain! Doesn’t that describe most of Florida and the Gulf Coast? In practice many, many people are willing to build on 50-year floodplains, and not in ways that leave a perfectly good house afterwards either. No houses on stilts or anything similar.