I love St. Augustine. And it is the oldest city by the Culture that matters, dominant Europeans. So there.
And now I will pick apart another item in OP's post (poor OP!) and it is that most climatologists have not made correlation between hurricanes and global warming. This is surprising to me, but something I learned from the editorial below from the ultra liberal St. Louis Post Dispatch editorial board in which they skewer Rish Limbaugh. This fact is not their main point, but it was containted in the editorial.
http://www.stltoday.com/opinion/edit...604c3c54b.html
which says
"...In fact, most serious climate scientists acknowledge little linkage between climate change and hurricanes in the past century. The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, in dry, technical language and numbers — science — concludes that correlation with today’s weather is difficult. NOAA scientists do say that global warming will contribute to greater weather extremes and that future hurricanes are likely “to be more intense globally and have higher rainfall rates than present-day hurricanes.”
I repeat, i was very surprised to learn this, assuming the Post Dispatch is correct.
Of course, that doesnt negate rising sea levels as a problem, as OP points out.
But no, it isn't "smart" to rebuild storm areas, always and everywhere.