Polk County Government Watch

It would seem that FEMA and the DNR is now in the business of putting local government between a rock and a hard place. Thanks to government generalities and excessive regulation, the new floodplain maps for the St. Croix river means either forcing more people to buy flood insurance to hedge against the potential of a “100 year flood,” or forcing local governments to spend exhorbanant amounts of money in fixing the maps for their areas.

This is the federal bureaucracy at work, and it’s wrong. The choice to purchase flood insurance should be based 100% on the desires of the individual with the caveat of knowing that if somebody chooses not get flood insurance while knowing they are in a risk area, any loss is their own and no others. Yes, it really is that simple.