No one can convince me that this was an “unintended consequence.” Via GOF in comments:
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhhkhmCbcZk?rel=0]
The .gov essentially just took their property from them without compensation.
Edited to add: Don’t forget, essentially the same thing is happening to Roger Kimball (and undoubtedly hundreds if not thousands of others) on the other side of the country where Sandy made landfall.