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Incentives and not building in flood planes. david: steve, is it politically possible to make the case now? people are still suffering. >> politically you can't do it now, david and and humanely you can't. thises about the future, in the future we should be phasing in more and more private insurance. there are plenty of competitors in the property and casualty industry. you've got reinsurance and need to engain in litigation reform which has been driving up premiums and the cost of flood insurance. so you make the reforms and in the future we'll have a more sensitive market and people will liv...

Vulnerability. reporter for the texas tribune. a year ago you and your colleagues did this report. you feared a day like this would come. when you looked into houston's vulnerability and preparedness, what did you all find? >> we basically found that local officials have allowed developers to build in flood planes and not install adequate flood mitigation measures. even if they do, they're allowed to release more water, you know, per hour, per minute than other municipalities closer to hugh houston. and there have been -- every time local officials have proposed stricter development rules, dev...

Right now is too much because our grounds are simply saturated from days and days of water that we received, you know, beforehand. so it's not going to stop. today, we are expecting more rain. >> it's pretty clear that these are conditions that have just never been seen before in oklahoma. so it's not as if people really could have prepared for a flood season. entirely unexpected? >> not quite. because in 1984, we had a historical flood here. after that happened, tulsa really took a proactive approach and spent tens of millions of dollars, billions i'm told, to build flood planes and prepare f...