The media and politicians are certainly looking to blame the other side.
More at the source
I highly doubt any of them mention redrawing flood maps in areas for developers.
Evidently there's a conspiracy theory being pushed that the government caused the hurricane to force people to sell their land if lithium had been found on it. And yes, some of dumbasses are taking it seriously.
You had also said you were in a lesser hit area. From everything I've seen reported, they've gone to the harder hit and larger population center areas.
Reading the history of the area for one, common sense about living in flood planes, and paying attention to weather reports that kept stating it would be bad.