Flooding is mostly an issue with the Houston storm. I don't hear much about flooding from FL or PR. That's more wind damage.

PR is not a bad place to build. It's an expensive place to live, all considered, because everything from the mainland has to be shipped there. If we have to support poor economically unproductive people, we should be doing that on the mainland where it costs us less.

Living on such an island is a luxury, and rebuilding it in place is also a luxury. We shouldn't pay whatever it takes. We should invite those who cannot stay there to leave and be helped on the mainland, clear the debt thru bankruptcy, and then without any further encouragement those strong enough will be attracted back by their own interest and ideas, to build a new and much better Puerto Rico with their own money and energy, the same way things are built everywhere else.