“Won’t keep us from rebuilding shit in the same place even though everything being destroyed is the perfect opportunity to get people to start a new life elsewhere…”
Hurricane Helene reached mountainous Western regions of North Carolina and Tennessee, where people hadn’t ever experienced a storm like this because hurricanes aren’t supposed to hit the mountains. That’s part of why it was so deadly, it hit places that aren’t prepared. You aren’t safe just because you aren’t near the ocean. Climate change is coming for us all.
Sure, but there are people living in places where it’s a guarantee that it will happen every year and they still keep rebuilding…
Where I live we had two floods with one year in-between them in 100 years zones and that was enough for the government to say “You ain’t getting any more money from us unless it’s to move elsewhere and if you do, we’re buying your house to destroy it.”
As you say, it’s coming for everyone, we need to act accordingly.
We’ll see about that… John’s Pass in Pinellas county was created about 130 years around from a major hurricane. It is entirely possible that significant portions of the most prized water front property in that area won’t be able to be built on or will take years of bulldozing of all those huge resorts and condos to make it possible to build.
Fyi they build them out of cinder blocks and poured concrete, mostly. Florida house walls are incredibly strong. Problem is: the roofs are still generally wood and can get ripped off in the high wind.
Someone I saw on YouTube did a monolithic concrete dome instead and fared much better. That’s what I would do if I had the money for a custom build.
“Won’t keep us from rebuilding shit in the same place even though everything being destroyed is the perfect opportunity to get people to start a new life elsewhere…”
Hurricane Helene reached mountainous Western regions of North Carolina and Tennessee, where people hadn’t ever experienced a storm like this because hurricanes aren’t supposed to hit the mountains. That’s part of why it was so deadly, it hit places that aren’t prepared. You aren’t safe just because you aren’t near the ocean. Climate change is coming for us all.
Sure, but there are people living in places where it’s a guarantee that it will happen every year and they still keep rebuilding…
Where I live we had two floods with one year in-between them in 100 years zones and that was enough for the government to say “You ain’t getting any more money from us unless it’s to move elsewhere and if you do, we’re buying your house to destroy it.”
As you say, it’s coming for everyone, we need to act accordingly.
We’ll see about that… John’s Pass in Pinellas county was created about 130 years around from a major hurricane. It is entirely possible that significant portions of the most prized water front property in that area won’t be able to be built on or will take years of bulldozing of all those huge resorts and condos to make it possible to build.
And keep building houses from what is essentially cardboard.
Fyi they build them out of cinder blocks and poured concrete, mostly. Florida house walls are incredibly strong. Problem is: the roofs are still generally wood and can get ripped off in the high wind.
Someone I saw on YouTube did a monolithic concrete dome instead and fared much better. That’s what I would do if I had the money for a custom build.
Still fucks up everything that’s inside though
When will this meme die