When will we ever learn?  Hurricanes have been hitting the Gulf coast forever, taking many lives and causing billions of dollars in damage from wind and flooding.   Property owners and insurances companies suffer great financial losses and state and the Federal taxpayers end up covering much of the losses.  People then rebuild in the exact same place and live fat, dumb and happy until the next hurricane hits in a few years and we go through it all again.   It would not be so bad if the homes were built to withstand the fury of Cat 4 hurricanes, but they are not.  The people on Okinawa, which gets hit with four or five typhoons each year, learned how to do it many years ago.  They built homes with steel-reinforced concrete that are able to withstand super typhoons.   When a typhoon hits and passes, it is almost like it never even happened.   When will we learn?