Posted on 09/18/2024 11:45:40 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
With 73 days left in the Atlantic hurricane season, communities across the Gulf Coast and Eastern Seaboard face risk of more storms like Beryl or Debby — storms that pose expanded danger thanks to a flurry of new home construction in flood-prone areas since 2001.
Between 2001 and 2019, about 850,000 new homes have been built in floodplains, a new study in the journal Earth’s Future has found.
That makes up a footprint of 2 million acres of at-risk property — about the size of Delaware — of which nearly half were in Florida.
In a sense, this is good news, the report authors argued: Only about a quarter of American communities have expanded into floodplains “more than would be expected, given the hazards they face.”
That’s because about three-quarters of local governments in some way limit new development in floodplains, and nearly 90 percent limit new housing construction.
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If it was risky people wouldn’t buy.
The Hill’s “science” would rate an F in third grade science class. Journalism: when you failed your studies classes. Believe these clowns at your own risk.
A few months ago the experts warned of 8-12 serious storms and hurricanes this year due to warm waters and climate change. At this rate that would mean about one a week until November.
The wizard must have his lines crossed and confused hurricane frequency with assassination attempts on Trump.
If you don’t fall for the hoax, you might score some nice waterfront properties.
PS, there is no “face of Climate Change,” it is a hoax.
I believe it. Just ask Barak Hussein Obama.
This has been one of the quietest hurricane seasons in memory.
“If it was risky people wouldn’t buy.”
Yep. Also, if seas are rising, why do they have to replinish our North Carolina beaches regularly.
Obama didn’t see no risk.
I’m hundreds of miles inland and my insurance rates still go up because of this.
Home insurance goes up in Florida, making it hard for people to live.
Question:
Do the insurance companies spread the pain to everyone, even those that aren’t living along the coast, because the waterfront people would have a massive insurance bill that some couldn’t afford?
Per Springfield, Ohio news….Haitians inability to drive causes car insurance to skyrocket. Why do people who don’t get the tickets or accidents pay the price for those that do?
You’d think Congress would be asking questions like that, but when you’re in the hip pocket of an insurance company…. Mums the word
Climate change did not stop the Obamas from buying beach front property.
In my 70 years of life, when I go back to Maine where I was born and raised, I can still sit on the same rocks and fish. The only sea levels rise is the tide that’s been the same.
Fine. Stop sending Yankees to FL.
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