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One can build a house on a flood plain that will not get flooded.
One can build a house on a coast that will not be damaged by a hurricane.
One can build in a geologically active area that will not be damaged by an earthquake.
It's when they DON'T that the trouble starts.
And it's when insurers (and government) insures buildings that are NOT up to standards that the problem CONTINUES.
If you get told that if this house floods, YOU, and YOU alone are going to be paying to fix it, that's going to influence your buying decision unless you're rich, or a fool. And I favor letting fools suffer for their foolishness.
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They're sandbars.
If we had several hundred thousand people living around Cape Hatteras we'd see the same every few years.
End federal flood insurance and you wouldn't see people rebuilding in these areas.
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I often have similar thoughts/worries/concerns about San Francisco and Tokyo. A terrible price will someday be paid for a record-setting event on those fault lines, but our species is just not good at acknowledging or properly planning for these "fat tail" events.
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And you have Bloomberg who has said for years he believes climate change scenarios like sea level rise but has done nothing about it to protect NYC? And like DRR says about NO rebuilding the levees no higher than the ones overtopped by Katrina and letting people build again in low areas with no codes to get houses up off the ground...
Where is the common sense here?
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Paul F. wrote:
One can build a house on a flood plain that will not get flooded.
One can build a house on a coast that will not be damaged by a hurricane.
One can build in a geologically active area that will not be damaged by an earthquake.
It's when they DON'T that the trouble starts.
And it's when insurers (and government) insures buildings that are NOT up to standards that the problem CONTINUES.
If you get told that if this house floods, YOU, and YOU alone are going to be paying to fix it, that's going to influence your buying decision unless you're rich, or a fool. And I favor letting fools suffer for their foolishness.
^ agree. In many cases along the coast of MA, this is true: no insurance for those houses built into the dunes, so when it washes away, it's gone for good. And no rebuilding, either. That last one is key if we're not going to repeat the mistakes.
