I have been following posts in my local Osteen FL group and they are talking about overdevelopment in their community.

I agree with the gripes they have about the overdevelopment because of infrastructure, the lack of care by their city and county government, and all of this is not helping their flood issues.

The issues with water in Florida, are not unique to Florida – they are much greater than just Osteen or Volusia. It is a Florida and a US coast problem, because states such as NC, TX, and LA have the same issues.

I do not believe it is easy to fix this but something should be done to fix it anyway, and I believe the government needs to enlist the help from The Dutch engineers to come up with a plan. You really need the right people for the job to do this. You also need a government that is smart enough to invest billions in prevention of floods rather than cleanup thereof.

If you look at the combined expense of these different storms in the last 50 years, Andrew, Charlie, Katrina, Ian, Maria, Helene, Milton, and then look at what it would cost to redesign the coast to stop the water from surging… and then ongoing prevention of damage, heck your insurance premiums may be able to come down!

I lived in Florida for a few years in Osteen and my sister in law still lives there. i was there during hurricane Ian and it was scary, and traumatic.

I would like to invite you to look at the Netherlands. I was born and raised in The Netherlands and my country has had to deal with water for centuries.

We have specialized engineers that deal with water, both to stop water, to properly direct water, and to retain some of the water within the country. We are known not only dor our windmills and tulips, but also for our channels and our skills to keep the water out of our country. About half of my country sits below sea level. We have dikes, dams, channels and waterworks to stop the water.

We even gained a province by pumping the water out and building the land up.

We live with 18 million people in a country that is about the size of Massachusetts and Connecticut combined.

Look at the following videos (not intended for the climate change part but it explains on what was happening in the Netherlands and how they fixed it)

Creation of Flevoland, the 12th province.

I also included a site to show to the delta works look like which was constructed to break the storm surge and to prevent the country from flooding with storm surges from the North sea, as it did in 1953.

https://www.holland.com/global/tourism/getting-around/interests/land-of-water/delta-works