Lest we forget, the U. S. isn’t the only place in the world affected by the weather. There have been enormous floods in India, too, as reported by CBS News:
MUMBAI, India — A five-story building collapsed in India’s financial capital of Mumbai, killing 12 people and injuring 14 others on Thursday, after torrential rains lashed the country’s west. Another 25 people are feared trapped in the debris.
Rescue workers, police and residents helped pull 13 people out of the rubble and were looking for those buried in the huge mound of mud, concrete slabs and twisted steel girders. The residential building is located in a congested lane of the Bhendi Bazaar area in southern Mumbai.
Thousands of Mumbai buildings that are more than 100 years old are at risk of collapse, their foundations weakened partly by some of the heaviest rainfall that the city has witnessed in more than 15 years.
There are places in India where rains in excess of 100 in. are not unheard of.
I have a hard time believing this. Unless there were a raft of government safety regulations, this could never happen in a free-market. Every free-marketer knows that the free-market drives out the bad actors.
When I hear that 20,000 Iranians died in an earthquake, I know this is propaganda by the safety freaks. Older places in Iran do not have building codes that entice people to build unsound buildings.
Similarly, the low death tolls from California earthquakes are fake, also. The tens of thousands of deaths are covered up by the safety freaks.
(For the dimwitted, I am being sarcastic.)