“..first hurricane to make landfall ... since 1903, etc.”
Great point, but the trime frame was pure roll of the dice.
It continues to astonish me that our general population is so utterly ignorant of basic Earth Science - how storms are formed, how and why they would impact the coast, etc. If you choose to live at or below sea level on the ocean you will get a storm that washes away the coastline - it may happen later rather than sooner, but it will happen - and it has nothing to do with “Climate Change”. It is Climate, Period.
We need to ramp up our earth science cirriculums, pronto!!
Trime = time
-——If you choose to live at or below sea level on the ocean you will get a storm that washes away the coastline -——
Staten Island is a real estate salesman’s dream. Because it was for sale the presumption is that it was safe to buy. The same is true in many places.
If the flood plain rules applied in Grundy Virginia were applied to New York City, Staten Island would be in the flood plain and can not be rebuilt. There is a town in North Dakota similarly effected. Areas near the river are no longer allowed to be habitable. In Abington Virginia, a small creek skirts the town and much of the area along the creek bank is in the flood plain and property sales are in turmoil.
Near Blountville Tennessee and Roan Mountain Tennessee, large tracts within the flood plain of medium sized creeks and rivers are off limits to rebuilding. The flood damaged houses were razed.
If the same rules are applied to Statan Island, it can not be repopulated in much of it’s area.
Then, there is Miami. Think of Staten Island when the panoramic shots of CST Miami are displayed.
Exactly. Then we move on to Economics 101, too.