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What about those areas prone to recurrent hurricanes, tornados and flooding?

by pkaye 10y ago

Retric 10y ago
Tornadoes are very localized damage in comparison, but people do move away from areas with regular flooding. Hurricanes also generally discourage development even though they tend to have much smaller impacts than earthquakes. EX: On 25 November 1839, an enormous cyclone caused a 40-foot storm surge that hit Coringa, Andhra Pradesh, wiped out the harbor city, destroyed vessels in its bay, and killed 300,000 people.[6] Survivors never entirely rebuilt the city.
- dragonwriter 10y ago
  > Hurricanes [...] tend to have much smaller impacts than earthquakes. Then why are there so many more tropical cyclones in the list of most deadly US disasters than there are earthquakes? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_disasters_in_the_United_States_by_death_toll# https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_disasters_in_the_Uni... And why are the ten costliest, by insured losses: 6 hurricanes, 2 other weather events, 9/11, and the Northridge earthquake? http://www.propertycasualty360.com/2016/04/26/here-are-the-10-costliest-us-catastrophes http://www.propertycasualty360.com/2016/04/26/here-are-the-1...
  - JamesSwift 10y ago
    Hurricanes are interesting because they _are_ announced in advance. A lot of work goes into boarding up and evacuating, and so when someone does that a few times but the storm misses the area, it creates a fatigue for the next one. I live in the forecasted direct impact zone for Hurricane Matthew which hit a few months ago. That was an extremely scary storm to consider hitting us. Immediately after it took a turn northward, friends were already lamenting that they evacuated and swore not to again.
  - Retric 10y ago
    Hurricanes cover a lot of land, but they are also predictable reducing deaths and thus loss of life. Earthquakes are less predictable, but far more localized. Consider, Katrina had losses from Florida to Ohio the 1906 San Francisco earthquake had little impact on Fresno. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1906_San_Francisco_earthquake#/media/File:1906_Boatwright_intensity.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1906_San_Francisco_earthquake#...

What about those areas prone to recurrent hurricanes, tornados and flooding?

by pkaye 10y ago

What about those areas prone to recurrent hurricanes, tornados and flooding?

Tornadoes are very localized damage in comparison, but people do move away from areas with regular flooding. Hurricanes also generally discourage development even though they tend to have much smaller impacts than earthquakes. EX: On 25 November 1839, an enormous cyclone caused a 40-foot storm surge that hit Coringa, Andhra Pradesh, wiped out the harbor city, destroyed vessels in its bay, and killed 300,000 people.[6] Survivors never entirely rebuilt the city.

dragonwriter 10y ago
> Hurricanes [...] tend to have much smaller impacts than earthquakes. Then why are there so many more tropical cyclones in the list of most deadly US disasters than there are earthquakes? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_disasters_in_the_United_States_by_death_toll# https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_disasters_in_the_Uni... And why are the ten costliest, by insured losses: 6 hurricanes, 2 other weather events, 9/11, and the Northridge earthquake? http://www.propertycasualty360.com/2016/04/26/here-are-the-10-costliest-us-catastrophes http://www.propertycasualty360.com/2016/04/26/here-are-the-1...
- JamesSwift 10y ago
  Hurricanes are interesting because they _are_ announced in advance. A lot of work goes into boarding up and evacuating, and so when someone does that a few times but the storm misses the area, it creates a fatigue for the next one. I live in the forecasted direct impact zone for Hurricane Matthew which hit a few months ago. That was an extremely scary storm to consider hitting us. Immediately after it took a turn northward, friends were already lamenting that they evacuated and swore not to again.
- Retric 10y ago
  Hurricanes cover a lot of land, but they are also predictable reducing deaths and thus loss of life. Earthquakes are less predictable, but far more localized. Consider, Katrina had losses from Florida to Ohio the 1906 San Francisco earthquake had little impact on Fresno. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1906_San_Francisco_earthquake#/media/File:1906_Boatwright_intensity.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1906_San_Francisco_earthquake#...