The question should not (just) be why build cities in the path of hurricanes - as wisely pointed out by several on this site - there are cities in the path of hurricanes, firestorms, earthquakes, tsunamis, tornadoes, etc. Not to mention cities and countries being threaded by rising oceans, droughts and other dangers of climate change. The question is - what do we do now? How do we fortify these vulnerable areas; bring help to those affected and most importantly (imho-) can this be the wake up call to switch to solar, wind, water and other nations on hazardous forms of supplying energy to the expanding populations of this still. Beautiful planet? The technology is there but the will must appear - the earth and our future generations await our response.