Who pays for next year's storms?
In all the talk about deficits, the cutting of funding for this and that and PBS,
Amid all the debate about who's to blame and what's to be done,
I have not heard one word about how the government plans to pay for the next storm.

We've had two this year. What if we have three next year? Or five?
Do we keep setting up the pins so Hurricane Whoever can knock them over again, or do we stop building cheap pre-fabs and instead build hurricane-proof buildings next time?
Will anyone be able to afford hurricane-proof buildings?

When do we finally sit down and say "Global warming or not, these hurricanes are as big a threat as Nazi bombs were to England in 1941, and a similar national effort is needed as was mobilized in 1941."