“People who live where nature does not favor.”
Where does it favor? The west coast? The west coast? I think not, while far from any hurricane, it has its earthquakes. The mid west? It has its tornadoes. Then there is the Madrid fault, not to mention the Yellowstone super volcano. Nature can get unfavorable anywhere.
“Where does it favor? The west coast? The west coast? I think not, while far from any hurricane, it has its earthquakes. The mid west? It has its tornadoes. Then there is the Madrid fault, not to mention the Yellowstone super volcano. Nature can get unfavorable anywhere.”
(1) The earthquake prone areas on the west coast (a) do not extend much above San Francisco (not a big concern in Oregon and Washington) (b) are found to be in, and more active in land closer to the coast than away from the coast with the exception of the San Andreas fault which veers in a NorthWest/Southeast slant to about 70 miles east of L.A., and (c) produces only occasional quakes that cuase damage and only rarely quakes of any major impact. Of greater and more frequent cost concern to California residents is the (a) constant bailing out of homesites and infrastructure built on coastal hills made of mostly sand and soil with great coastal views and great and constant losses from storms that erode the sandy hills under the homes, as well as homes and infratructure demanding location surrounded by mountain forests threatened by fire every year. No, there are plent of places in California that are tranquil the vast majority of the time, and those places still have plenty of room for the people in California who chose to live where EVERY YEAR their property has a greater than not chance of being at risk.
The same kinds of alternatives exist in every region of the country.
If you have listened to anything I have said you know I am not talking about the once in hundreds of years “what ifs” like the New Madrid fault or the Yellowstone super valcano.
We here in New Jersey have been bailing out New Jersey shore residents for some event nearly every year in the last twenty years, because a fraction of the population insists on living where they can see the shore out their window; and then when everyone else in the state wants to get to the shore, the locals want to charge you for the privilege. THEIR privilege would disappear and they’d move inland a bit - where most New Jersey residents live - if the rest of us didn’t keep rebuilding THEIR beaches for them.
Give the shoreline back to everyone in the state and our winter storm damages would be drastically cut, and the state could still host as many residents as it does now.
If not, then everyone needs to become 100% Libertarian and pay 100% of their own life expenses and that would include coastal towns buying - on the local tax money - their own “storm damage” insurance policies to pay 100% of their own recovery costs.